The work was done under Professor Badrinath Roysam in the Advanced Imaging Systems Laboratory . If you are interested in more details a copy of the abstract is available here, and I would be happy to send you an electronic copy of the thesis on request. Being a Teaching Assistant at RPI is another fun thing that I have been paid for. I mostly taught hands-on digital circuit design. If you could use a hand, I would be happy to lend one.
Movies are usually cool, though, and theater and good music are always appreciated.
My real focus for fun is more on the mental plane. My idea of serious fun is a good game of Go , or anything else that requires a lot of thought and planning. Role-playing games are also a fun distraction. The all-time most satisfying sort of entertainment, however, is still creativity. If you are interested in new games that take lots of thought and are decided by skill rather than luck, take a look.