Who am I? What is my work...
My coordinates
My hobbies
My courses


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You want to see me live? Check this funny anim and also this new one!

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Useful links, kind of sorted hotlist

• Internet, WWW, etc...
• Teaching computer techniques, University of Nice related stuff
• Research centers I have worked with
• Culture...
• Unix related stuff, X11/Motif/Tk, ftp, fsp, etc...
• Virtual Reality/3D/Computer Graphics
• Dictionnaries, maps, etc...
• Interesting personal Home Pages
• Pure Fun
• Buisness WWW sites
• Holidays: useful links about skiing, traveling...

I conduct my research work on Underwater Virtual Reality at ESSI (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Informatiques), at Sophia-Antipolis near Nice in the southeast of France, with Professor Peter Sander.

An interesting link for the french teachers is the CNU ftp server.

The last year, I was a visiting scientist at the Robotic Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . I studied there the navigation of cross country mobile robots using weakly calibrated stereovision. I was involved in the The Navlab project.

Here is a picture of the robot I worked with. The lab maintains a very interesting page with links to a lot of computer vision related stuff all over the world. See the CMU Computer Vision home page. Check also the Robotics mosaic page.

Here are my publications.

PS: I also worked a lot with the Delaunay Triangulations. Check my demos on your X11 display!

• email: <Michel.Buffa@essi.fr>
• Surface mail: Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Informatiques (ESSI), 650 Route des colles, B.P 145, FRANCE.
• Phone: (33)-92-96-51-15
• Fax: (33)-92-96-51-55
• Office: 415, 4th floor
• WWW: http://www.essi.fr/~buffa
• IRC: nickname "Zebra3".

Hobbies

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Here we go! Here are my hobbies!

• In France, before leaving to the USA, I used to play guitar in a Rock'n'Roll band. Don't speak to me about Jazz, or worse: Free-Jazz, South American music or things like that: it's not my cup of tea! The music I like must be played on american guitars exclusively, plugged into old valve amplifiers set to 11, and may include some Fuzz noises. No keyboards are allowed except an old Hammond organ! See my music page for details! I'm looking desperately for an electric Hollow-Body guitar, (Gretsh, Gibson ES335). Mail me if you have one to sell!
• I love all psychotronic stuff like sick movies, old psychedelic punk bands from the sixties or like my friend Greffe, the singer of my old band. Have a look at my cinema/music page to understand what I mean.
• I love playing video games. I have a SNES with a SWC and lot of games, and a 3DO game console that is great but has only a few games for the moment. See my video games page that are one of my principal contributions to the WWW.
• I love scuba diving, and sailing. By the way, have you read the rec.scuba FAQ? You may also want to check the Aquanot WWW server? Look also at theATOC (Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate) mosaic page.

• X/MOTIF programming.

• Here is the WWW tutorial I wrote. If you don't know what WWW means, how to use Mosaic, how to make your own pages... this is for you!

• Check Yahoo for more web sites. Just enter a search term below and hit the submit button:
• All kind of info: try the k-archie interface, written by Pascal Robinet, one of my students.
• Hypertext try the WebCrawler or the The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information.
• WWW servers in a particular place try The Virtual Tourist. Very useful for finding all the WWW servers in the world, country by country.
• Files try ArchiePlex
• Databases try gopher's Veronica or WAIS's directory of servers
• Software try Vince Cate's ftpable-READMEs database
• Netnews try Stanford's Netnews Filtering service
• Computer Vision Papers try searching the Rosenfeld bibliography
• People try the NetFind database. Try also the WhoIs interface

IRC

• Everything is in my IRC page

French sites

• All the French WWW servers

Usenet FAQs

• All Internet FAQs are here
• The Internet Gopher FAQ

Services

• All Internet services are here
• Lots of internet ressources. Contains interesting links about all the internet software like IRC, mosaic, etc... Very interesting links about audio/music, listen to soungs through the net, etc...

News about the Net

• Global Network News.
• The Whole Internet Catalog (GNN).

WWW Home pages

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Home Pages

Network pirates arrested

• The David La Mecchia MIT affair

The World Wide Web (WWW)

Browsers

• Netscape/Netsite Home Page: The Mosaic Communications Universe

HTML docs, tutorials...

• HTML, the complete-ish guide
• The Common Gateway Interface. Contains example and libraries about FORMS and how to process their content.

Cgi scripts, etc...

• You may find interesting examples at The Web Tools Review page.

Printing Tools

• Wide World Web Wonder Widget -- Mozilla Printing: enter an URL and it will return to you the corresponding postscript file. *GREAT!*

WYSIWYG editors

• the HTML Editors page
• The Phoenix Home page.

HTML translators

• Read the electronic manuals with Mosaic/Netscape: try the man-cgi cgi-bin at ESSI (man -> HTML on the fly)

Miscellanous tools

• The NCSA ftp server. All tools related to html/mosaic are there!

Original use of HTML

• the 3D finger from Ecole Polytechnique

• Home Page License/Maitrise Informatique 1994/1995
• The CNU ftp server
• Guide de l'Etudiant-Chercheur

My students in Maitrise d'Informatique

• Frédéric Aime
• Noël Arnous
• Isabelle Attali
• Laure Barrere
• Patrick Berthon
• Cyrille Combes
• Sylvain Constantin
• Jean-François Delerue
• Pascal Fenoglio
• Sacha Fosse-Parisis
• Serge Gallego
• Alessio Gaspar
• Muriel Le Metayer
• Benoît Mahe
• Laurent Maillot
• Marc Monticelli
• Patrick Novarese
• Pascal pensa
• Jérémie Petit
• Stéphane Plazis
• Guillaume Ramey
• Pascal Robinet
• Edouard Romeo
• Philippe Sardier
• Delphine Selliez

Miscellanous courses I found on the Web

• X-Windows, MOTIF (David Marshall)
• First Course in X Windows . This one comes from Australia.
• A WWW tutorial in French by Michel Buffa (me!). If you don't know what WWW means, how to use Mosaic, how to make yout own pages... this is for you!
• Programming in C (David Marshall)
• Computer Graphics Coursework (Ralph Martin)
• Computer Graphics Course Illustrations (Ralph Martin)
• Computer Graphics Coursework: Selected Answers (Ralph Martin)
• Introduction to the Internet II - GNA
• A WWW tutorial by Mark Maimone.
• A page with various articles and papers on the history and problems of the net.
• A Good guide to Cyberspace and the WWW.

• The INRIA Home Page
• The Sophia-Antipolis research Unit
• The Robotvis Lab

CMU/Pittsburgh

• CMU Home page
• The NavLab Home Page
• What's New in the CMU CS Web ?
• Postscript Maps at CMU.
• An incredible map program about Pittsburgh, with everything: streets, shops, entairtainment, zooms, etc... *TRY IT*!
• Looking for someone in CMU, location, phone number, you want to see his face ? Use the CMU White Pages!
• Looking for a paper, a report, use the CMU library server!
• This Week's Pittsburgh Film Directory
• Ways to have fun around CMU: Arts, food, bars, ...
• Practical info for Pittsburghers and others, WEATHER
• Interesting icons for decorating my WWW pages later.

• Earth and Universe
• Sea World and Busch Gardens Information Data Base

Arts

• Le Louvre museum. Famous painting exhibition.

Electronic magazines

• Wired
• All the electronic magazines!

• The Xemacs FAQ (HTML version)
• Directory of /pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages. the main ftp server for emacs lisp archives.

Ftp/Fsp

• The FSP FAQ.

Latex

• Auc Tex info page.
• Auc Tex documentation.

Zsh

• The Zsh HTML full documentation
• An introduction to Zsh

X11, MOTIF, Tk/Tcl

Courses, tutorials

• X-Windows, MOTIF (David Marshall)
• First Course in X Windows . This one comes from Australia.

Documentation

• Man Pages
• Docs from the MIT ftp server. The X/Xt/Xm Quickrefs are there!

Ftp servers

• The TCL ftp server

Linux

• The french Linux Resus page
• The Linux WWW page.

• Run the demos of Renderware on your X11 display (a fantastic real-time 3-D library). We wrote a small script that run the dmeos on your display, from one of our machine.
• FAQ: 3-D Information for the Programmer
• WT (What's That), the cooperative InterNet effort (headed by Chris Laurel) to create a sorta Doom-like 3d engine called "wt" ("what's that" -never capitalized).
• Some Commercial demos of 3D rendering with textures by Criterion Software
• the SIGkids Place on the Web
• The 3D Web for all 3D related things.

Stereograms

• Stereogram / SIRDS / SIS FAQ
• Single Image Random Dot Stereograms (SIRDS) Pages
• Xpgs - X11 SIRDS/SIS package, version 2.5

• The page with all the dictionnaries! Including the only French -> English dictionnary I found.

Maps

• The Xerox map server
• Xerox Map server, Sophia-Antipolis centered

• Mark Maimone's home page. LOTS of stuff in there!
• Nap's home page. Same comment!

My good friend's home pages

• Franck Diard'home page. Check out Photon4D, the Ray Tracer he wrote
• Bruno Vasselle
• Stephane Laveau
• Frederic Devernay
• Jean-Luc SZPYRKA
• Thierry Vieville.
• Tuan Luong's home page.
• Colas Nahaboo's Home Page.
• The Robotvis Lab home pages
• The Pastis Laboratory home pages
• The Koala project

• My music page!
• My movie page
• My videogames pages
• The URouLette: pick at random an URL.
• Watch the TV!
• Les Guignols de l'info. Lots of audio files taken from the french hilarious TV program "Les guignols de l'info".
• Lots of Mpeg files!
• Access the Llama Grafix/Fun page!
• Try the alt.sex.movies WWW Homepage!
• Explore the Rolling Stones Homepage!

• The Business Web
• Adobe Photoshop for Sun-Home Page
• World Wide Yellow Pages: all commercial sites.

• Skiing in the World. This site contains tons on information about all the diferent ski resorts in the world.

michel.buffa@essi.fr