It has been many, many years since I last wrote non-technical prose. But somehow today, I was inspired to write. I have included a photo from my SFU office window’s view at 9:30am this morning. I hope you enjoy reading it.
SFU Office View (March 20, 2015 @ 9:30am)
Uncertainty Future
Atop, up high, the mountain of higher learning,
I gaze out the window at the view usually far and wide,
Hope, a faint glimpse, I hope to see what is the future,
The fog and rain clouds my sight, seeing only here and now.
The spring of youth wells at home,
While I am left with a quiet calm,
Yet I sense the excitement of a new beginning,
Now a chapter closed, but not the book.
Soon the rain will stop, the fog will lift,
Bringing the sun for a brighter day,
Yet waiting for it may bring opportunity lost,
A sunny mind can break any foggy, rainy day.
Dr. Stephen Makonin is an Adjunct Professor in Engineering Science and the Principal Investigator of the Computational Sustainability Lab at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He received his PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in 2014 in the area of computational sustainability. He has been a software engineer for over 24 years working for various local/international industry clients. Stephen is a registered Professional Engineering (PEng) with Engineers and Geoscientists BC and a Senior Member of the IEEE. His research interests include computational sustainability and the understanding of socioeconomic issues that pertain to technological advancement. Stephen is an expert in data engineering, software engineering, and a world-renowned researcher in non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and disaggregation. Stephen is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Vancouver Chapter and sits on the IEEE DataPort Advisory Committee. He currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE DataPort Metadata Review Board, and as an Editorial Board Member of Nature's Scientific Data journal.
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Stephen..
‘Just found you here… ‘following my rambling links & site searches, the most recent being “disaggregation of natural gas residential”. ‘Very much pleased by this prose of hope & uncertainty… the metaphors of the glimpsing, the fog, the expectant waiting are strong. Thank you.. Keep it up.
I do have some tech questions and requests for advice in pursuing my persisting cause, being residential energy efficiency, NILM systems (including real-time gas usage metering), human values & behavior change that I’d like to engage with you, if you’re open to. I’ll follow this with a separate e-mail..
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) 
Stephen..
‘Just found you here… ‘following my rambling links & site searches, the most recent being “disaggregation of natural gas residential”. ‘Very much pleased by this prose of hope & uncertainty… the metaphors of the glimpsing, the fog, the expectant waiting are strong. Thank you.. Keep it up.
I do have some tech questions and requests for advice in pursuing my persisting cause, being residential energy efficiency, NILM systems (including real-time gas usage metering), human values & behavior change that I’d like to engage with you, if you’re open to. I’ll follow this with a separate e-mail..