MIT Blackjack Team. A reference to the blackjack team of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, who reportedly won millions throughout the mid-1990s. The MIT teams operated successfully around the world between 1979 and the late 1990s. The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. History of illegal gambling in the philippines. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the.
Katie Byl[KAY-tee BILL]katiebyl@ece.ucsb.eduECE594d My UCSB homepage (with link to online calendar) is here: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~katiebyl
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The Byl family have recently moved from the 'fair city of Cambridge, MA' to fair-weathered Santa Barbara, CA. Our other big news this past year is the birth of our son, Pieter Byl. |
You can see me (and labmates) doing some serious trash talking on robotics in a fun mockumentary on the Goblin Man (go to Part 3: exhibition). Note, LittleDog gets a starring role, too. |
The funnest part of my PhD research was developing these dynamic motions for LittleDog. And yes, LittleDog is in fact the smaller sibling of the BigDog robot. Both are products of Boston Dynamics. |
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I have a notorious past. I was a professional gambler for several years on the infamous MIT Blackjack Team. My name was KatieLilienkamp back then, and the 'team' was actually a series of variously-named LLCs[warning: That last, wikipedia-page link is pretty unbalanced. Maybe some day the many-score various past-teammates and I will attain activation energy to retify that.. but I would not hold my breath for that eventuality.] Side note: Successful gamblers and roboticists have two things in common: getting paid to play, and a proclivity to work late-night hours in windowless spaces. If you are weighing these two career options personally, however, do not belittle the fact that your average robot lab affords a much more smoke-free daily working environment. I've TA'd an epic number of times at MIT (see my CV!) . If you had me as a TA, please do drop me a line! I am curious what adventures and turns your life has taken (even if you didn't end up studying controls). |
Selected Publications and Presentations
List to be updated.. |
Metastable Walking on Stochastically Rough Terrain, RSS 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [movie] |
Approximate Optimal Control of the Compass Gait on Rough Terrain, ICRA 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [movie] |
Control of the Compass Gait on Rough Terrain , Dynamic Walking (DW) 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [pdf of ppt presentation] |
Lab Experiences for Teaching Undergraduate Dynamics - M.S. thesis, Katie Byl (nee Lilienkamp) |
A Simulink-Driven Dynamic Signal Analyzer - B.S. thesis, Katie Byl (nee Lilienkamp) |
Dynamic Signal Analyzer for dSPACE - Quick documentation of the DSA developed for my Bachelor's thesis |
More Cool Robot Videos
I have a notorious past. I was a professional gambler for several years on the infamous MIT Blackjack Team. My name was KatieLilienkamp back then, and the 'team' was actually a series of variously-named LLCs[warning: That last, wikipedia-page link is pretty unbalanced. Maybe some day the many-score various past-teammates and I will attain activation energy to retify that.. but I would not hold my breath for that eventuality.] Side note: Successful gamblers and roboticists have two things in common: getting paid to play, and a proclivity to work late-night hours in windowless spaces. If you are weighing these two career options personally, however, do not belittle the fact that your average robot lab affords a much more smoke-free daily working environment. I've TA'd an epic number of times at MIT (see my CV!) . If you had me as a TA, please do drop me a line! I am curious what adventures and turns your life has taken (even if you didn't end up studying controls). |
Selected Publications and Presentations
List to be updated.. |
Metastable Walking on Stochastically Rough Terrain, RSS 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [movie] |
Approximate Optimal Control of the Compass Gait on Rough Terrain, ICRA 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [movie] |
Control of the Compass Gait on Rough Terrain , Dynamic Walking (DW) 2008 (Katie Byl and Russ Tedrake) [pdf of ppt presentation] |
Lab Experiences for Teaching Undergraduate Dynamics - M.S. thesis, Katie Byl (nee Lilienkamp) |
A Simulink-Driven Dynamic Signal Analyzer - B.S. thesis, Katie Byl (nee Lilienkamp) |
Dynamic Signal Analyzer for dSPACE - Quick documentation of the DSA developed for my Bachelor's thesis |
More Cool Robot Videos
i.e., the good stuff is just ahead.. Happy hunting! |
Mit Blackjack Team Wikipedia Shqip
LittleDog Quadruped Robot
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Mit Blackjack Team Wikipedia Template
Led lights for poker table.
More video coming soon..