So I extended my stay at the lab for two weeks, making my last day the end of July. I met with Dr. Likhachev a few more times, mostly in lab meetings. It seems that every week, there is at least one lab meeting, where, up to now, a PhD student in the lab gives a presentation on his proposal. The presentations have all been about 3D path finding in unknown environments and its application to robots. After having worked with some search algorithms myself, I had a pretty good general idea of what the big dudes were talking about. Words that were just buzz phrases weeks ago are now entire comprehensible concepts to me. I've successfully translated my A* code from Java into Javascript, though the process probably took a bit longer than it should have- I spent too long looking for an error that existed in the form of a misplaced bracket in a nested for-loop. I've also created my first copy of the algorithm's visualization. It's a Javascript applet, meaning the html file h...