Paul Picciano of Aptima gave a talk to Project54 students, staff and faculty. Paul introduced his company Aptima, and talked about several projects Aptima has undertaken. True to Aptima’s “human centered engineering” tagline, the projects Paul described all revolve around improving human performance with the help of technology. One such project is aimed at creating tools …
Monthly Archive: March 2008
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05
Using FreeMind to Organize Your Thesis and More
Usually, I’m skeptical about new ideas coming from my co-worker and good friend Alex Shyrokov, but this time I have to admit that he was right. He showed me a small application called FreeMind, that allows to create and manage mind maps. I was unaware of the existence of such maps, though i might have …
Mar
04
Facebook Talk
Last Wednesday, 2/27/08, i gave a tech talk on Microsoft’s Facebook SDK. The Facebook SDK allows developers use and .Net language to create Desktop apps, Web apps, and also embed them within Facebook. Why has Microsoft done this? Here are some statistics on Facebook… Facebook has become the 2nd largest social networking app It is …
Mar
03
Demo Simulator Setup for Floating PTT Presentation
Hello. Recently, together with Prof. Andrew Kun, we submitted papers on floating PTT solutions for the IE08 Conference. We now call the ‘wireless PTT glove‘ and the ‘steering wheel sensor PTT‘ by the common name of, ‘floating PTT’, as opposed to the current fixed solution. If you are interested in what other purposes a sensored …