JJ Clark
@jjclarkclark.bsky.social
Prof at McGill University Assoc. member MILA Computer Vision/ML Member CVPR/ICCV steering ctee Creator of the Intellijel/Cylonix Shapeshifter and Rainmaker modules follow me on Souncloud: https://soundcloud.com/jjclark-cylonix
on.soundcloud.com/jYdd1PMGZYsx... My favourite analog synthesizer at home is this Sequential OB-6. The link above is a track I made which is mainly the OB-6
Some historical artifacts from the 1980’s. The “Harvard Head”, one of the first robotic active vision systems (designed and programmed by me and Nicola Ferrier, built by John Page using DC servo motors found in the dumpster behind the Chemistry building)
Sign on door of an office on the third floor of the Redpath Museum on the McGill University campus
Digital art made with hacked fluid mechanics simulation code
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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🧠🤖 Samiei, M., Precup, D., & Richards, B. A. (2026). The schema spectrum: Emergent structures and levels of abstraction in AI and the brain. Neuron, 114(11), 1898–1907. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
The schema spectrum: Emergent structures and levels of abstraction in AI and the brain
There is a long history of interplay between the brain sciences and AI in the area of schema theory. Schemas are typically defined as abstract mental …
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Was cleaning up my office and found these chips. Most of them were made by me and my students when I was at Harvard. The bigger ones are magnetic sensor arrays and the smaller ones neural networks of various types. I don’t remember where I got the Nortel chips. They might be asics.
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
This is what I call a “mullet dinner” - “biscuits in the front, pad Thai in the back”
The dataset from our paper on Visual Search in 3D environments is now available for academic use. Wang, Panchadsaram, Sherkati, and Clark. "An egocentric video and eye-tracking dataset for visual search in convenience stores." CVIU 248 (2024). Please contact me if you wish to get the dataset.
The back room at the restaurant (Main Street Vancouver, December 2017)
UBC Computer Science Professors Emeriti Alan Mackworth and David Poole were awarded the AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award for developing free online resources to learn foundations of AI. Congratulations! Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2026/02...
A rather strange photo my camera captured in the mid 2000’s in front of the Pantheon in Paris. I don’t know why the image came out with such a strange faded appearance
A spooky track for #Halloween! 🎃For my friends in Vancouver, which has many many crows (who are not your friends). soundcloud.com/jjclark-cylo...
The Ashen Crow
remake of a track from my myspace days back in the early 2000's
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Harvard has slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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