Andrew P. Citron's Youtube Videos

When Youtube came out, I wanted to try that out right away. Here are all the videos I posted over the years.

This is my very first Youtube video. Me playing a jazz standard all by myself.

My niece, Emily and I learned a song for her brother's wedding. We performed it live at the wedding. For jollies, I also made a video.

After I retired from IBM I studied artificial intelligence. To apply that knowledge I built a robot. Click the robot to see the videos TJbot robot

Late 2021 I noticed that my robot's ability to see stopped working. After some investigation I learned that IBM Watson had dropped support for visual object recognition. That broke my robot's ability to respond to "What do you see?". I decided to reimplement that function using Microsoft Azure's cognitive services. I posted my code to github so other TJBot implementers could use what I implemented. I communicated that with the creators of TJBot at IBM research. In turn, they posted my link to their featured recipies site.

I have recordings of my mother and uncle Jerry. While locked in during the Covid-19 pandemic, I also digitized old photo albums. I decided to put the 2 together, plus add some tracks. So nice to play music with my parents and uncles.

Here are some recordings of my long time band, Third Time Thru. The last one is actually by Pig Lights. They used to do light shows at the Fillmore East.

This one is a video I put together for the website of my now-defunct band, "Evolving Door".

This next one is part of a rehearsal video of Evolving Door.

While working at IBM I put an online lecture series together. The tutorials were 'How To Use IBM's Rational Performance Tester'. That was a performance measurement and analysis tool that IBM created and sold. I worked very closely with that group to get them to add features that my team needed. I found I was spending a lot of time answering questions about how it worked. In anticipation of my retirement, and because I had taken some online classes, I decided to put a set of tutorials together. I wanted to learn how to make an online class. So I just did it.

In all there were around 50 lectures. Each was between 1 minute and 20 minutes. I tried to cover everything I knew about the product.

IBM actually gave me a monetary award for the videos as they were among the most watched IBM videos in 2014-2016. Some were watched over 5000 times. I put my email in the videos and I had people all over the world contacting me with questions. Around the time I retired, IBM spun off Rational Performance Tester to a company called HCL.

In 2020 while creating this page, I looked at my link to the videos, and IBM had taken them down. I'm pissed off! I guess IBM doesn't develop the product any more, so why have videos about it on their Youtube page? After some pondering, I decided to upload all the videos again. Here's a screen capture of the intro video. Click on it to see the full playlist.

Rational Performance Tester Tutorial

Next is part of a video I made while in graduate school. We were tobagganing in subzero weather. My friend could make a fire in those conditions. Amazing.

These next few are from my childhood.

This next is a gift my sister got for me.

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