After the 2009 Undergraduate Research Conference at UNH the university newspaper featured not less than three Project54 undergrad students on its front page in the headline article. Dave Garneau was part of the UNH Precision Racing Team, which won the first prize on the conference. Dave designed the traction control system for the racer. As …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr
28
3D Human-Computer Interface
Here’s an interesting video I came across today regarding a 3D human-computer interface using electrostatics, without the need to attach any auxiliary device to your hand. It’s interesting to see the different interfaces that are being researched right now (e.g. multitouch) and whether one of these newer interfaces will be prominent in consumer applications. In …
Apr
26
Brad Gillespie at UNH
Earlier this week I hosted Brad Gillespie on a visit to the UNH ECE department. Brad, an ECE alumnus (MS EE ’94), is a veteran of Microsoft, where he was the Technical Assistant to Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie. Currently, he advises early-stage technology companies, focusing on strategic issues at the intersection …
Apr
23
KLAS at the URC
Yesterday Mark Taipan and I presented KLAS, or Kingsbury Location Awareness System at the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering (ISE) Symposium for the 10th annual UNH Undergraduate Research Conference. We were able to share with the audience our project poster, our KLAS video, as well as have two PDAs on hand to provide user demos. Here …
Apr
22
Energy-aware traffic engineering
Hello ecebloggers, Yesterday, Tuesday 04/21/2009, a close friend of mine, Nedeljko Vasic (in the picture below), gave a talk at UNH CS Weekly session on his current research titled Energy-aware traffic engineering. Nedeljko is currently a second year PhD student at EPFL’s Networked Systems Laboratory. In 2006 he was awarded with “St. Sava’s” award by …
Apr
19
International Year of Astronomy
This year marks 400 years since Galileo Galilei used his telescope to explore the skies. To celebrate this anniversary and in an effort to promote and gain interest in astronomy, this year is observed as the International Year of Astronomy around the world. UNH’s Physics Department has joined this effort by providing a series of …
Apr
17
The next step in sharing visual media – The new Micro Projector 3M MPro110
A few days ago I ran across an interesting device in a local electronic store. Finally it is time when such device arrived at our lives with satisfying performance for an affordable price. I found that buying it as a new PDA/phone accessory would be worth considering. It is an ultra-mobile (size: 2.0×0.9×4.5″, weight: 5.6 …
Apr
15
Using voice to tag digital photographs on the spot: seeking participants
Have you ever wanted to tag photographs immediately upon capture? Your answer to this question is probably twofold: (1) Yes I have; it would seem to be more convenient. (2) No I have not; text entry on a mobile device is a difficult process. Now, what if I told you that we’ve developed an application …
Apr
13
Students 2 Business
As a senior at UNH, I’ve seen countless of students (including myself) stressing out about nothing to do with academic work! It seems that much of the stress that has descended about the senior class pertains with life after school. Everything from finding jobs, interviews, graduate school applications and details such as where am I …