[Bf-committers] Oscars, Netherlands and Horses [slightly OT]

[Jonathan Merritt]

Hi Everyone,

One of the winners of the Technical Achievement Awards at the Oscars 
this year was Vicon, for their Motion Analysis System:
    http://www.oscars.org/77academyawards/sci-techawards/winners.html

One of the individual winners of this award was Dr Ton van den Bogert.  
He did his PhD at the  Veterinary School of the University of Utrecht in 
the Netherlands (where he is originally from), on the topic of "Computer 
Simulation of Locomotion in the Horse".  (I have a copy that he sent me 
sitting on my desk! :-).

The moral of the story is that in order to win an Academy Award, you 
should all first start a PhD in equine biomechanics.  >:-]

-- 
Jonathan Merritt BE(Mech)/BSc
PhD Student - Equine Biomechanics
The University of Melbourne
Veterinary Clinical Centre, Werribee