Congratulations to Matt and Mark on receiving summer undergradate research fellowships! They will work with me on a ubicomp project that Matt described in an earlier post. Andrew Kun
Monthly Archive: April 2008
Apr
15
Microsoft Live Search Maps: Really cool features
OK, I really like MS Live Search Maps. I tested it out at the suggestion of Tim Paek, with whom I’ve been talking about in-car navigation devices. The topic of web-based navigation came up because Tim and I are interested in comparing the driving performance of drivers who use printed directions with the performance of …
Apr
13
Ben McMahon defends MS thesis
Last week UNH ECE graduate student Benjamin McMahon defended his MS thesis. Ben is a member of the Project54 lab and he worked with Professor Kent Chamberlin on issues related to datacasting technology for law enforcement mobile units (e.g. see this post by Ben). For his thesis Ben worked on simulating designs of receiver antennas …
Apr
11
Software-Based APCO Project 25 Base Station
The Project 25 standard allows for both voice and data communications on digital radios. However, commercial manufacturers have implemented the data communications portion of the standard using very expensive equipment. While large agencies may have the resources to purchase and maintain this equipment, small agencies, such as e.g. a town police department with a few …
Apr
10
Kevin Short lecture
Yesterday I attended the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Frontiers Lecture by UNH Math Professor Kevin Short, entitled “Disassembly, Repair and Rebuilding of Music using Mathematics.” As the title suggests, Kevin discussed his work on restoring old music recordings, including his Grammy Award-winning work on restoring an old Woody Guthrie recording. Kevin won his …
Apr
09
Stress relief using driving simulator?
I think Susan Boyce, who visited our lab recently, got some stress relief from the driving simulator demo we provided – see video below. Andrew Kun
Apr
07
Failing the Turing test
Can a human fail the Turing test? Yes, and it happened about a week ago.
Apr
06
Call to action on global climate crisis
For more go to www.wecansolveit.org. Andrew Kun
Apr
03
Eye-Tracker Training
On Monday and Tuesday (March 31 and April 1) John Noble from SeeingMachines (all the way from Australia) gave us a training on how to get the most out of our eye-tracker, that his company produced. We already had experience with the system since it arrived in January. These sessions helped us a lot to …