Tonight I totally kicked the bottoms of organisation charts. If you draw an organisation chart on the tablet computer with the little pen and press a button, the computer can now read it and tell you who’s the boss of who.
I am not very interested in organisation charts in and of themselves, but the point is to demonstrate that the software has the potential to interpret lots of kinds of drawings, and my supervisor thought organisation charts would be a good thing to have as an example. For, you know, business people to look at. If you speak to business people in the language of organisation charts, they will know that the software is marketable. I’m not sure at what point universities started caring about whether things are marketable, but apparently this is what we’re supposed to do now.
Due to this evening’s organisation chart bottom-kicking, however, I have gained some extra time. And I intend to devote this extra time to making the program recognise drawings of proper abstract network graphs with nodes and vertices instead of management hierarchies. After all, it does say Computer Science Department above the door I come through every morning. And organisation charts just aren’t computer science.