On Thursday, January 29th, we had the opportunity to witness a great lecture: Zircons as a Window into the Very Early History of the Earth. It was given by Professor Bruce Watson, a distinguished UNH alumnus, now teaching at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The lecture focused on the use of zircons, a particular type of …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
Jan
26
DFT Driving Challenge
So apparently in the UK the Department of Transportation is called the Department for Transportation. This means that the acronym is DFT, which is confusing because DFT of course stands for Discrete Fourier Transform. So the question is, when transportation becomes fast in the UK will the DFT become the FFT? OK a little geeky …
Jan
22
Entertainment meets product placement on Dilbert (sigh)
January 19 Dilbert: And yes, there is in fact a dilbertfiles.com. Well, I don’t think Scott Adams ever claimed to be pure. Andrew Kun
Jan
18
Discuss entrepreneurship with Brad Gillespie
How many of you are curious about entrepreneurship? would consider working for a startup after you graduate? have an idea and would like to start your own business? Brad Gillespie, a UNH alum, works with startups and will be visiting UNH this April. If there is enough interest, he’d be happy to talk about starting …
Jan
16
Experiment Wizard
This is a follow up to my previous post about automation solution for our experiments. Taking the automation a step further I have designed Experiment Wizard. Experiment Wizard is a cross platform open source automation tool for scientific experiments. It defines the XML schema for experiment administration, and provides GUI application to execute created experiments. …
Jan
14
ImagineCup SDI
Hey everyone! My name is Mark Taipan and in addition to working for the fine folks here at Project54, I also am the Microsoft Student Partner here at UNH. One of the topics that I’ve been discussing with students last semester is the ImagineCup competition. So what is the ImagineCup? And what is SDI? The …
Jan
13
Cell phones and driving
Are you using your cell phone while driving? The National Safety Council says you shouldn’t. Of course, cell phones are just one of the distractions in a car. The NSC recently hosted the International Symposium on Distracted Driving. There are many interesting presentations to review on the symposium website. I really liked Paul Green‘s presentation (especially …
Jan
10
Microsoft Tag – 2D barcodes for consumer products and services
Microsoft has just introduced a 2D barcode readable by a freely available cell phone application. Read more on the Tag website (they also have a cool video although the ending is cheesy). With the proliferation of camera phones this seems like a nice way to introduce object tagging. We’ve heard a lot about RFID, but …
Jan
09
BLUI
I really like this video about a Blowable User Interface (BLUI): OK, I admit I don’t know what the killer app would be, but entertainment sounds like a good bet, something like the Sonic Lighter: [via UID Teatime Blog] Andrew Kun