Ho3...I did watch autobiography movie if my morale are down, just for inspiration. Preferably, 'beautiful mind' as one of my choice!! 

@spikyz, are u using SVM for classification as well?

Streeling University.

VMSmith may i know much about your field of study?
Depends lolz, overqualified staff sometimes is super cool =) btw i think PhD is cool, coz u can build your own consultant company, where u can be d boss and do what u want, what u like in stuff u really good at =)

I don't agree. You would need other skills as well eg: business/ management skills then you can survive. after all it is a business. So even if you hold a phd degree, its also good to have other skills.

owh, so its just a catchy name. Well my bad then.
@highwind85, architecture? cool, yeah now i do remember he mentions about archie stuff. Well for me, im just recently doing my PhD in Nottingham Malaysia, my focus is on Artificial Intelligence. Gonna use Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) or Kalman Filtering, basically i will use these methods to predict disaster before it happens. My focus more on landslides and concrete structures (deformations on concrete structures like what happened in MRR2). Basically will use those method to monitor and predict when the disaster will struck so we could warn the community.

Well that a brief about my topic. Hopefully if anyone have related topics, we could discuss about it.

and yes, i would like to know about other ppl research interest as well, what they doing, how they gonna do it and such. =)

btw does anyone have motivational movie suggestion? sometimes its really easy to get de-motivated when doing phd. haha

Hopefully a partnership with someone who good at business? haha, yup im agree we need to have other skills. But what im trying to say, many of prof i know, have a consultancy firm, either their own or a partnership with a businessman. So that is the answer for d most common question ppl ask to a phd holder "do u want to become a lecturer?", actually there is alot of option other than being a lecturer. =)
btw @zstan, i feel stupid everyday, haha reading new topic or new journals, sometimes make me feel very noobbb..

I am considering study phd, too.
I had decided to get my master in Japan.

Now, I am AI student in UM, last semester.

Doing my thesis on Stereo Vision on Robot Navigation. Mine is a 3-person project. My part is on mapping. Now very headache. 
Trying to do map merging. My current approach is to use distance between object to merge the map. But, recently found too much unreliability... 
Now, I trying to use image registration to do the map merging...

I have a question here:
Is it ok if my master thesis is the enhancement of the method during undergrad thesis?

Are you in Faculty of Science, School of CS?

gosh, i know how you feel. when I first started labwork, I feel like going crazy for the first four month, I can even do the normal routine protocol right...most of the time is because of simple silly reason. after one puzzle down, another one puzzle come to break you motivation down. It's not that bad. I love the working hours. postgrad (i'm doing MSc tho) is nice, feels liike being payed for studying.

all you guys researched are fully funded by the uni..............right?