Monthly Archive: October 2007

Oct
31

Vehicle Telematics: A Literature Review

Vehicle telematics is the use of computing, sensing and telecommunication technologies to provide services in an automotive environment. Vehicle telematics service categories include navigation, remote diagnostics, fleet management, safety, information access, context awareness and mobile commerce. Supporting these services requires unique hardware and software architectures. Additionally, issues such as privacy, data security and human factors …

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Oct
31

Matlab peculiarities

Hello readers! So while working on my Neural Networks homework, I stumbled across an interesting problem when using the surf command in Matlab. Try running the following commands: Xi = -2 + [0:20]*0.2; Xj = -2 + [0:20]*0.2; X = zeros(2,size(Xi,2)*size(Xj,2)); for i = 1:size(Xi,2) n = (i-1) * size(Xj,2); for j = 1:size(Xj,2) X(:,n …

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Oct
30

Halo 3 party

On October 9th, i hosted a Halo 3 party in Kingsbury Hall at UNH. There was a turn out of 30+ students. I gave a quick presentation about Microsoft new XNA technology which allows hobbyists to create video games for XP/Vista and for the first time ever the Xbox360 platform. XNA is a managed graphics …

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Oct
30

MSDNAA Access

As part of being a MSP( Microsoft Student Partner) i was able to get grants for the IEEE, Project54 and the ECE department at the University of New Hampshire. The MSDNAA is free for three years and gives access to all students and faculty to almost all of Microsoft products except for Word. Some thats …

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Oct
29

XML Defined GUIs for Project54

Hello eceblogger readers! My name is Mark Taipan, an undergraduate student here at Project54, http://project54.unh.edu/, and for the past few months, my colleague Matthew Lape and I have been working on creating a Project54 application that utilizes an XML script to define its GUI. Normally with Project54 application GUIs, one would have to define the …

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Oct
24

Save the Internet

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Oct
22

Ralph Cicerone talk at UNH

Ralph Cicerone is the president of the National Academy of Sciences. On Friday, October 19, 2007, he was at UNH talking about global climate change and its human causes. Here is a picture from the talk: The webcast of this excellent hour-long talk will be available (along with the slides) here. In this post I …

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Oct
19

GPS traffic communiation

A company called Dash has come out with a car GPS unit equipped with GPS,WiFi, and cellular communications. With these features a network is formed from all the Dash units and live traffic information is shared. In addition to live traffic data, they have database of historic traffic patterns for metropolitan areas. This sounds great. …

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Oct
18

Ford and Microsoft cooperate, the result is Sync

2008 model year Ford cars will have an interesting option: voice activation for mobile phones and digital music players. Ford calls this option Sync and has a website to promote it. Check out the video on the bottom right to get a feel for Sync. The technology uses Microsoft’s speech recognition software (just like we …

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Oct
17

Raytheon, Cisco Team Up for Public Safety Communications Network

It appears there may be a step forward in public safety communications, or at least another plan. There have not yet been many details published about the plan, but I suspect it will be interesting to keep an eye on this one. See an article about it here. Benjamin McMahon

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