Yelena Mejova, Graduate Student in Computer Science
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WELCOME

Welcome to my school webpage. Here you'll be able to find info about my interests (the links above give most of them away) and just updates about my life.

I try to keep this site as current as possible. If you are a computer science professor, the projects and school pages would probably most interesting for you. If you are a friend, check out the books and music pages. If you're just surfing, go to my links page.


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PRESS LIKES ME - AGAIN [05/13/2007]

This is the article about me in Fargo Forum Friday May 11, 2007 issue.





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PRESS LIKES ME [05/07/2007]

Check out this article on our MSUM webpage about me.



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GRADUATE SCHOOL [04/19/2007]

I have been accepted to all graduate schools I applied to last semester, but only one offered me a decent financial aid package. Actually, the University of Iowa (Iowa City) gave me a Fellowship, which will be worth about $150,000 over five years of my study there. I feel very honored to get this fellowship, and hope to live up to it. I am also very excited to move to a new place and see what graduate school is like. I am such a geek :)

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RAMPANT ROBOTS [02/03/2007]

For the past two years I have presented my work at the MSUM Student Academic Conference. This year, I bet, will be the most interesting. Our robotics class (all three of us) decided to present our robots to the university. Although the title of our presentation seems a bit dry: Robot Programming using Hierarchical, Reactive and Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Paradigms, it will be a lot of fun showing off our "critters" wandering around the hallways and navigating grids.

Update: Our SAC presentation went very well. The robots did what they were suppose to, the props were promptly dug up from the depths of our "Advanced Research Facility" room, and the software modified to suit the new version of RobotC. We also got a great spot - right where the traffic was. The grid did a great job attracting the attention of the passers-by. We were even invited to show our "presentation" at the Dragon Days the following week, but we are all too lazy for that (I mean, busy).

The pictures are here!







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PIANO RECITAL [02/02/2007]

I decided to play a piano recital this semester. I am not required to do this, since I am not majoring or minoring in music. I just want to exit with a bang. But there is something to this experience of having a repertoire memorized and polished - just like a real pianist! I have set the date, time, and place: April 29th at 7:30pm @ Fox Recital Hall. I am planning on inviting all the people from Computer Science department, and all of my friends. Since I will be departing for graduate school soon (hopefully), it would be nice to say a proper good-bye (and leave a good impression).

The repertoire you see below is chosen by me, and even my teacher (Dr. Terrie Manno) admits that it's quite a challenging set of pieces. I am doing my best practicing every day, but I need to be careful not to harm my hands in the process. Computer science plus piano performance equals carpal tunnel syndrome.

Here is the final list of pieces I will be playing:

  • Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) - Trois Etudes de Concert III. Un Sospiro
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) - Etude-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 8
  • Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) - Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 7
  • Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) - Etude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3
  • Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) - Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12
  • Claude Debussy (1862 1918) - Images I. Reflets dans l'eau
  • Ludwig von Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Sonata No. 3 Op.2

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REDESIGNED MY PAGE [7/28/2006]

My last web page on SWS was made using some weird editor, which, of course, generated the ugliest, most unreadable code. Even though I updated my page only when I read yet another book, the look of that ugly code really got to me. So, since it is summer, and I have a couple of hours to spend on personal endeavors, I finally got to re-designing my page.

I am pretty minimalist by nature, thus you can see that my page isn't much of anything. I believe in KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) design, and would prefer if all of the Internet was like that as well, but since I am but a single web developer in billions, I'll just contribute what I have.

Gah, I use Mozilla Firefox to view my site while creating it, and it looks fine with all CSS I want! But once I go to IE -- hell is unleashed! It's like a whole new project then, to make my code work with IE as well as Firefox... Sometimes I think I'll just put my whole site in a Notepad style -- hah! That would be fun. Maybe next summer.

Last Updated 08|09|2007