In my last post regarding the installation of Project54 on a marine patrol boat, I mentioned that the boat environment presents a new set of challenges. One of these challenges is that it is very difficult to perform manual interaction while the boat is moving due to the rough motion resulting from hitting waves. When …
Monthly Archive: November 2007
Nov
29
Speech signal processing course – Spring 2008
During the Spring 2008 semester I’ll be teaching a graduate course (900 level) on discrete time speech signal processing. This course will cover topics on the theory and application of discrete time speech signal processing. First we’ll discuss the speech production mechanism and anatomy, as well as linear models of speech production. Next, we’ll delve …
Nov
26
Alex Shyrokov wins best presentation award at NECHFES student conference
Alex Shyrokov was awarded one of three bets presentation awards at the NECHFES student conference. He received the award sponsored by Charles River Analytics. Here’s Alex showing off the award: Congratulations Alex! Andrew Kun
Nov
22
NECHFES Student conference 2007
Hi all, As you know couple of us went to the NECHFES conference in Boston on Friday 11/09. The conference was about human factors and ergonomics. It was my first conference and I was pretty excited specially because I was one of the speakers. We had 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 for Q&A. …
Nov
20
Steering wheel sensor
Hello all, For some time now, beside other things, I have been working with pressure sensors on the steering wheel. I mounted four of them to the perimeter of the wheel. They are connected to an amplifier board. The signal is then fed to a Texas Instruments eZ430-RF2500 board, which serves as an AD converter …
Nov
19
Amazon Kindle
Amazon just came out with a “wireless reading device” called Kindle. Kindle has an electronic paper display and this should make reading easier on the eyes than say reading from an LCD screen. You can buy books and have them delivered wirelessly. For this Kindle uses Sprint EVDO. Pretty nifty! The Amazon Kindle page has …
Nov
18
UNH graduate appointed Assistant Professor at Hashemite University
One of my graduate students, Mohammad Salah, has recently been appointed Assistant Professor in Mechatronics at the Hashemite University in Jordan. Mohammad worked with me on imitation learning and he got his MS in EE at UNH in 2003. He then went to Clemson University where he received a PhD this year. This is really …
Nov
12
Dr. Richard Pew keynote speech at NECHFES student conference
The keynote speaker at the 2007 NECHFES Student Conference was Dr. Richard Pew, who is a Principal Scientist at BBN. The speech touched on highlights from Dr. Pew’s fascinating career, including for example his work on the user interface of the Kurzweil 250, the first synthesizer to produce lifelike imitations the sounds of real instruments. …
Nov
08
Powerful In-Vehicle Computing
Azentek has developed a powerful full-featured in-vehicle computer with a built in 6.5” touch-screen that replaces the traditional double DIN sized radio. Highlights include: Core Duo 1.83 GHz processor, Vista/XP, up to 2GB RAM, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, Dolby 5.1 surround, A/V IO and noise+echo cancelling microphones for hands free calling and voice activated navigation. Additionally …
Nov
04
Using del.icio.us
del.icio.us (pronounced delicious) is a web service that allows you to store your favorite links online. In addition, you can tag your links so that they’re easy to search and easy to share. You can create networks with friends and colleagues. You can also explore what other people with similar interests are tagging (a cool conference …