Week 9 Post 1

As of today, I can say that I am proud of my progress. Obviously, I have not finished yet, as I have time in the lab until August 1; however, I was contemplating today during our last meeting with Dr. Voyles, and I came to the realization that I have never been more professional and efficient in my life as during this internship. It all started with Dr. Voyles asking the interns how we were doing with our projects. He was not satisfied with the answers as they were short and straight to the point. He wanted to hear all the details and all the excitement that we had for our projects, so we started over. I used my creative thinking process to summarize the whole experience. As I was following through the long journey in my head, I realized that last year only, it was my dream to work on gesture recognition and AI. I forgot about it completely until I thought about it thoroughly. In my head, I was crying tears of happiness because I had never thought that a dream that I had put into my head a year ago would come to fruition so quickly, and I was actually able to work in one of the best labs in AI and Robotics in the country. I described it as a dream come true experience for Dr. Voyles and other interns. I explained to them some of the most important points and lessons that I learned during this internship, such as learning about reinforcement learning, working with hand gesture recognition, computer vision, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, and so on. I also described the way I look at the whole human-computer interaction now, as I understand the psychology of a robot from a different perspective that seems to be deeper. It was a long way, and there is still some time to go, but I did not regret even a little bit for accepting the offer from this lab.