IEEE’s Xplore service is an important source of papers for electrical and computer engineers. However, its search feature is frustratingly poor. Here is an example of how poorly the search works. In advanced search, I initiated a query for “speech analysis by homomorphic prediction” and I specified that I want the query to look at …
Monthly Archive: February 2008
Feb
27
Difference between science and engineering
The Essence of Engineering and Meta-Engineering: A Work in Progress aims to define what Engineering is and how it is different from Science. The following quote have caught my attention: The history of science is a graveyard of theories that were empirically successful for a time… The article includes many references and quotations. It’s interesting …
Feb
26
Ripping books
The technology for sharing the written word has improved dramatically over the centuries. Back in ancient Egypt, if you wanted to jot down your thoughts, you needed some serious hardware: Those were the times of the Rosetta Stone. Now, in a recent Newsweek article Steven Levy discusses the idea of converting books to digital form, …
Feb
25
Ubicomp gloves
My grad student Oskar Palinko has written on this site about his work on a cool glove to be used as a press-to-talk (PTT) device. The glove has built-in buttons that can be used as PTT buttons when interacting with a speech user interface. We’re currently using the glove to test how drivers would benefit …
Feb
20
Microsoft Dream Spark
“Microsoft announced an unprecedented software program that we believe will help change the lives of millions of students around the world. The program, Microsoft DreamSpark, is focused on providing millions of college and high school students with no-cost access to the latest Microsoft developer (i.e., versions of Visual Studio, XNA Game Studio), designer tools (Expression …
Feb
20
Go-First visit to Project54
On February 18th Go-First visited us for a presentation and demonstration of Project54. Noel Gould, co-founder of Go-First, has brought the group to visit the project for the past two years. Go-First is an organization that introduces young people to public safety, health, environmental and technological careers (with particular attention on first responder occupations) and …
Feb
18
Wardriving
Have you seen the 80s movie WarGames? Well, I’m old enough to have seen it in the movies. Here’s the trailer: Here’s why I ask if you’ve seen this movie. Kent Chamberlin, Erika Clifford and I were discussing ongoing and future datacasting technology evaluations by Project54 at UNH. We’re interested in using datacasting in first …
Feb
16
Lecture: Dr. Jenni Cook on Speech Production and the Singing Voice
Dr. Jenni Cook, Associate Professor in the UNH Music Department, visited my Speech Processing class to discuss speech production as it relates to the singing voice. Here’s a picture of Jenni I took during the lecture: I invited Jenni because I was intrigued by a figure in the Quatieri textbook that I use in this …
Feb
15
If you're late with your Valentine card…
… check out these geeky ideas.