In documenting the various Project54 research efforts I upload many pictures to my Flickr account and many videos to my YouTube account. However, for the past few weeks I’ve had problems connecting to Flickr and to YouTube. Basically, I’d attempt to upload files and the operation would fail. Small pictures would suffer the same fate as large videos - they …
Monthly Archive: July 2008
Jul
10
Changing driving simulator projectors lamps
The Project54 driving simulator has three NEC WT610 projectors. A couple of days ago Zeljko Medenica checked the status of the projector lamps and found that they had very little useful life left (you can get an estimate of remaining lamp time from the projector). As a lamp reaches the end of its useful life it …
Jul
07
A trip to Taiwan
Zorana and I just got back from a fun trip to Taiwan. Zorana was invited to speak at the Psychology of Creativity Conference at Taiwan National Normal University, and they paid her ticket and a honorarium. We decided to turn it into a vacation as well, so we booked a ticket for me too, …
Jul
05
Who should know what you've been watching on YouTube?
According to this New York Times article, by a judge’s order, pretty soon Viacom may know exactly. And right now Google knows exactly. How will these companies and others use such personal information? In the NYT article you can read about Google and Viacom proclaiming that they want to protect your privacy. Somehow I don’t …
Jul
03
Interesting Article on using RFID to assist a Wi-Fi Locationing System
In our research for our KLAS Project, Mark Taipan and I ran across a few interesting articles on Wi-Fi indoor location systems, specifically ones which utilize RFID. One of the most informative research papers was the Sensor-Assisted Wi-Fi Indoor Location System for Adapting to Environmental Dynamics. This paper dealt with adding RFID sensors to a …
Jul
02
St Paul's ASP AI Class visits Project54 lab
A group of students from St Paul’s Advanced Studies Program Artificial Intelligence course recently visited the Project54 lab. The students were first given a demonstration of the Project54 system in our lab car, and then were given a chance to experiment for themselves. Next the students were taken into the simulation room and were given …
Jul
01
RFID and Critical Care Medical Equipment
Since the beginning of the summer, my colleague Matthew Lape and I have been perusing papers on the use of 802.11 and RFID technology in location awareness systems for our KLAS project. Recently, I happened to stumble upon this article (which referred to this paper) regarding how RFID affects critical care medical equipment. I must …