*** Eelko de Vos ***
Address:
Eelko de Vos
Jacob Catsstraat 36
2613 HC Delft
The Netherlands
tel. +31 15 2133391
His WWW site at home.
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What the @%$# am I doing here at the TUD???
I am currently studying Computer Science at the university of Delft,
Holland. Quite a task, I must say. It's starting to get more fun
while I near the end, but I think I've learned something on the
way:
If you can do it tomorrow, do it next week.
I'm in the counsel of the faculty of Technical Mathematics and
Informatics here at Delft university and try to get the best for the
students out of it. Still, I get paid and the students don't. But I
don't mind.
I'm also in the CRI2 and CRI3, two small groups that
keep the contact between professors -teachers- and students on a
regular base. At least, we try. It depends on the teachers attitude
wether it works or not.
I also manage a complaints-account for
the TWI faculty. It's right here!
Meanwhile I try to attend some medical colleges too. Besides
informatics I'm also quite interested in medicin (neurology) and have
some interest in psychology.
I think it's quite interesting to see how man 'works' and how
psychology is getting more and more needed while we've got more and
more kinds of communication lurking in the near future or even just
around the corner. But still, that's just a hobby.
Medicin on the other hand is something I'm deeply interested in. Ever
since I was a little boy I wanted to be a doctor. But my first
commodore 64 -oh, those good old days- threw me off balance and I
fell for it: computer science (never thought I would end up this way). I
still think that programming is quite fun, but what could be more
exciting than programming the worlds (or maybe even: the universes)
most complex kind of computer: the human brain... Martial arts try to
do this too, by the way. They've had quite some succes at it!
Neural networks and in some way parallel computers fascinate me in a
peculier way: I think they're quite promising kinds of tools, but I
don't think they'll ever be usefull in a very broad domain. In a way,
every network is considered to do some special kind of job. So what
we have here is something like a autistic child who can do a neat
little trick, but is useless in every other way of life. It can't
even feed itself. I think that networks learn in quite a different
way than we all think it does up to now. But maybe I'm wrong. Time
will tell.
Hobbies
Just for those who are interested... Otherwise skip it.
- Computers
- Of course I must be interested in computers. I'm a great AMIGA
fan. A shame it didn't work out for Commodore. I've got two Amigas 500,
ks2.04, wb2.1, 5 Meg (4 fast, 1 chip) and a 52 Meg harddisk (too
small, I know). Fat Agnus installed, three diskdrives (one of them is
a 5 1/4!!!) and a lot of disks, but still I need more...
I started out with a Commodore 64. I programmed some nice little
programs on that nice machine. In machine code, of course. Some 3D
programs that worked out quite well, and some other vector oriented
programs.. All in all, it was quite a nice machine, to my opinion.
- Reading
- I'm a great fan of horror and SF. Stephen King is a great writer.
No book is too small, no tale too horrifying. He's great. Terry
Pratchet is also quite a writer. And Asimov, Silverberg, Aldiss,
Clarke, van Vogt, Harrison... The list goes on and on...
- Writing
- Not in the sence of writing letters, or something. I'm terrible
at that. But I write small stories and usually don't finish them.
It's not that I get stuck or something, but I just don't have enough
time to sit down and finish them off... *OVERKILL!!*
I wrote some small Pooh-like story the other day for my girlfriend.
Take a look if you like...
- Visual Art
- Not the kind which you could hang upside-down and still wouldn't
see what the creator meant by it... I like the REAL artists...
Especially I like a guy called
H.R. Giger. He draws some fantasy like macaber pictures
that are so real... He once was stopped and checked at the Dutch border.
When they found his paintings they asked where 'those pictures were taken'...
Giger laughed at them -never laugh at someone who can change your fait- and
Giger had to stay there until some experts told them all that those really
were paintings... Nice work!
It's wonderfull!!! Just look at the pictures
of this unforgettable artist!
BTW: He also designed the aliens in the 'Alien'
movies... See them!
- Humor
- Some favorites:
- Harry Enfield
- Red Dwarf
- Monty Python
- Ren and Stimpy
- Beavis and Butthead (sorry...but it's true!)
- Nightmare on Elmstreet (yes, I consider this humor!)
- AD & D
- I`m playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons here in Delft with a
party which consist of about seven characters, five players. My
character is a 85 years old gnome called 'Groock'. He's a
fifth/fourth (or was it the other way around?!?) level thief/wizard.
We're in Greyhawk and trying to find the answer to some kind of a
disease called 'The Red Death'.
- Music
- I like music. Once I've won almost every album of Queen and since
then I collected their other albums too. But that's not the only kind
of music I like. I also like -when I'm in the mood- the Beatles,
Nirvana ("I kill you, I'm NOT(????) gonna crack..."), Slayer, Kate
Bush, Prince, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Metallica, Marillion, Pink
Floyd, etc. etc. etc. Almost anything. But *stress:* NO Hip-Hop,
House, Rap, or other crap. Well ok, the Geto Boys are funny, I
think... And maybe Ice-T is nice too...
- Sport
- A few years ago I had the pleasure to study the ways of Shoalin
Kempo. Don't confuse this with Kendo. Kempo is a karate-like fighting
art, but better. Judo teaches you how to defend yourself, karate
shows you how to neutralise a person, and Kempo teaches you how to
eliminate someone. Therefore we were not allowed to use our knowledge
outside the dojo. If you did, you would be in a lot of trouble...
Fifteen full-trained kempoka are not something to simply walk by...
Shoalin Kempo was practised by monks of the Shoalin Temple and spread
out to China. My teacher was raised there and studied the ways of the
Shoalin Temple. Here in Holand he built a school and taught his
knowledge to us. But alas, I wasn't able to attend his classes
anymore. I moved to Delft. And to travel twohundred miles just to
work out for two hours didn't appeal to me...
Another sport I have quite an interest in is Nunchaku-DO. I'm
still trying to get my hands on a wooden pair of nunchakus. They're
sort of illegal here in Holland. :(
now you know me some more. Whenever you feel the need to talk to me,
try and reach me at:
Vos@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL
Feel free to say anything! Mail is always replied.
Or else... Maybe you can reach me
at home?!?
Bye!
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Eelko de Vos,
E-Mail: Vos@Dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL
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