Blog

Notes from the field

Shorter, informal write-ups on cybersecurity, cloud and HPC operations, research, and notable events — separate from the main portfolio.

2026

Making whole-slide pathology images machine-learning-friendly

A look back at the HistomicsStream project with Kitware and Northwestern — why reading pixel data efficiently turned out to be the hard part of applying AI to cancer pathology, and what a 65% speedup actually took to achieve.

2015 (revisited)

What a student pitch competition taught me about shipping

Revisiting the UNB TME Student Pitch Competition, where KnowYourChild won the Impact Award — and why the lessons from that pitch still show up in how I run programs today.