Terry Wardrop of St. Paul’s School in Concord, who teaches Artificial Intelligence as part of the school’s Advanced Studies Program, brought his class for a visit to the Project54 lab. Terry’s students experimented with the Project54 system in our Labcar and took a spin in the Project54 driving simulator. Several of us participated in hosting …
Monthly Archive: June 2007
Jun
25
Rooftop Rain Event Logging Station
Datacasting is a technology Project54 is trying to take advantage of for communications between police headquarters and officers in the field. We’ve completed a field study on datacasting and have found that problems with signal reception sometimes happen during rain events. We’ve set up a Rooftop Rain Event Logging Station to further explore what is …
Jun
14
Interesting Microsoft Image Research
I stumbled across an interesting video this past week which showcases some very interesting image mapping and assembly techniques. The research was done by Microsoft and presented at the TED conference in California. To avoid retelling the whole story, here is a link to the video of the conference presentation. One of the products the …
Jun
13
PC-based radio interoperability
This video introduces a radio interoperability solution based on off-the-shelf devices which were integrated into Project54. As a proof of concept, the Motorola and E.F. Johnson radio devices were used to test the solution. Three simple tests are presented in this video to demonstrate the solution’s capability to patch different radio types in the system. …
Jun
07
Pervasive 2007 & Travelling to Toronto
It was great to showcase my work at Pervasive 2007, but it was even better being able to see the work that others have done in the field. An example of a paper that I found really interesting was given the best conference paper award and was entitled Shake well before use: Authentication based on …
Jun
06
Adam Greenfield and Everyware
The keynote speaker at Pervasive 2007 was Adam Greenfield. Adam spoke about his first book called “Everyware.” In this book Adam explores how ubiquitous/pervasive computing will change our lives and makes recommendations on how to design pervasive/ubiquitous systems so that they do not clash with the social norms we live by. Here is a picture …
Jun
01
Jacob LeBlanc's presentation at Pervasive 2007 One Minute Madness
Here is the video of Jacob LeBlanc’s presentation at the Pervasive 2007 One Minute Madness. If you’re not familiar with the presentation format, here is what happens. The conference has a separate session for poster, video and demonstartion presentations. These three types of contributions are presented in parallel, each at its own station. The One Minute …