My Ukulele Wishlist

Just a wishlist of different ukuleles I would like to own if money was no object

• Kanile’a or Koaloha 5-string Concert
• aNueNue aNN-Tolele II E Electro Concert Ukulele (probably one of the cheapest on the list)
• Koaloha Red Label  or Black Label Concert Ukulele w/Lr Baggs 5.0 pickup
• PIGEON TREE CUSTOM ADIRONDACK SPRUCE MACASSAR EBONY TENOR – this is a one of a kind, a real beauty
• Pops Pineapple Sunday Acacia Concert Ukulele
• Rebel Livingston Tenor Uke – either the spruce top or cedar top version, no longer in production, only available used
• Blackbird Clara eKoa Concert Ukulele with an Anuenue Air/Air pickup installed after the fact, strung high-G
• Bonanzalele
• Asonu Tahitian Whale 4-String (tahitian stringing)
• aNueNue UC-214 Cedar Moon Bird Concert Ukulele (exclusive to World of Ukes, only available used)
• aNueNue aNN-UC3K Bird Series Koa Concert Ukulele w/air air pickup
• Pono Taropatch Concert

Delighted to see my recent IEEE conference paper finally show up in Google Scholar and the IEEE Digital Library. I truly believe that the next wave of innovative technology solutions will embrace Affective Computing, i.e. computing systems that understand and adapt to human emotion.

S. M. Moon and Y. Qu, “A quantitative approach for determining pilot affective patterns during soaring flight simulation,” 2017 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), Chengdu, 2017, pp. 2617-2624. doi: 10.1109/CompComm.2017.8323008

Successful Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Complete

Successfully defended my dissertation: “An Experimental Design of a Foundational Framework for the Application of Affective Computing to Soaring Flight Simulation and Training”

The end is nigh! (In a good way)

Journey’s End

There is finally light at the end of the tunnel! I’ve submitted my dissertation to my mentor, who is reviewing it for any last minute changes. I should be defending my dissertation in 2 weeks 1 week.

This is it…

Final Defense

It is finally here…my final quarter as a doctoral candidate starts in a little over a week. If all goes well, in 2 months I should complete my final dissertation defense and become Dr. Moon. 

Resumed doctoral program

After a truly hideous 18 months that resulted in many life changes and temporarily leaving my doctoral program, I resumed it on January 3rd, 2017. If all goes well, I will be doing a preliminary defense towards the end of this term, and the final defense the following term, for a summer 2017 graduation.

Term 12 Complete, only Dissertation Defense remains

Today, on pirate day 2015, I completed the 12th term of my doctoral program. All core classes are complete. I plan to take 1 to 2 more terms to finish polishing up my dissertation, and hopefully defend it by April 2016.