Cool video (although some people are not impressed): Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7 Andrew Kun
Monthly Archive: May 2008
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May
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Cubit and TouchKit: Open source multitouch displays
Check out Cubit, the open source multitouch display by NOR_/D, in this video: Very cool! You can now place an advance order for TouchKit, the development version of Cubit. Here’s a good article with more details on this display and other similar efforts. Want more pictures? Click here. I tried to search Flickr for some …
May
23
Ian Cassias defends MS thesis
On Tuesday, Ian Cassias defended his MS thesis. Ian worked in the field of telematics and he was interested in three topics: remote diagnostics of vehicles, vehicle fleet management and traffic monitoring. My favorite part of Ian’s thesis is his work on traffic monitoring. Ian looked at how the police radar could be used to …
May
21
Anything on Wheels – Forney Museum of Transportation
My colleague Andras Fekete and I had a chance to visit the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, on our journey with Dr. Miller and Dr. Kun to Colorado for the National Institute of Justice conference. The museum started as the private collection of Mr. J. D. Forney with only a few cars. Today, it …
May
21
2008 IEEE Homeland Security Conference – Waltham, MA
Last week, May 12-13, the IEEE held a conference on Homeland Security technologies in Waltham, MA. Eric Ramsey, a former Project54 employee, was presenting a paper related to his master’s thesis on the development of a Project25 data radio basestation. I went down to accompany him for the 2nd day of the conference and view …
May
20
Pavlo Melnyk PhD defense
Last week Pasha Melnyk defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Biologically inspired composite image sensor for deep field target tracking.” Pasha was interested in the problem of deep field tracking, or more specifically, he was interested in using image sensors to track objects from when they are very far from the observer all the way into …
May
18
Ray Kurzweil on grand challenges for engineering
Ray Kurzweil is well known for his work on optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis and speech recognition. Recently, he was invited by the National Academy of Engineering to be part of a committee charged with outlining the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. Last Thursday, Ray gave a talk on this subject at …
May
13
UNH ECE Masters Program Non-Thesis Option
The UNH ECE department (http://www.ece.unh.edu) introduced a non-thesis option for the Masters program and I am excited to be one of the first students to take advantage of this option. The non-thesis option replaces the thesis with two 900-level courses, a technical paper, and two technical presentations. The benefit of this option is that it …
May
12
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Monday 05/12/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Today, Monday 05/12/2008 was the last day of the student project presentations and the day of LPC (Linear Predictive Coding). The session chair was Nate Bourgoine (picture below). After a little confusion in the beginning, Ivan Elhart (in the picture below), CATlab member, opened today’s presentations with Project 25 MATLAB implementation of compression. …
May
09
ECE 992 Speech signal processing – Student presentations, Friday 05/09/2008
Hello ecebloggers, Friday 05/07/2008 was another exciting day of student presentations. The session chair was Dave Estes. He didn’t bring Budweiser (Dude!) but he did have a nice slide listing all the presenters (see picture below). The first presentation today was from Nate Bourgoine. Nate’s project was on speaker recognition using high order formants. He thoroughly …