Miguel Tavares

cooperation (uncountable)

1. The act of cooperating or being cooperative.
2. Active help from a person, organization, et cetera.
3. An orderly sharing of space or resources.
4. Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase

Actually, cooperation is what just happened tonight, between an Engineer (me) and a Musician (my brother), where the Pan-Tompkins Algorithm for QRS detection - to the common mortals, it’s used to detect heartbeats in an ECG - is now being used to produce music with a Wiimote.

Truly, this is what fascinates me in engineering and algorithms: no matter what the subject is, if we can transform it in something we already know, if we can adapt identify what the real problem is - and 90% of the time someone has already solved that problem - then it becomes trivial and we can use an algorithm that, most probably, someone else created for something fantastically different.