Andrew Kun

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Name: Andrew Kun
Date registered: July 26, 2011

Latest posts

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis — October 5, 2007
Using HP Deskjet duplexing with Windows Vista — September 26, 2007
Seeing Machines demo — September 19, 2007
MITCH at Tilburg University — September 14, 2007
Impressions from Sigdial 2007 — September 9, 2007

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Oct
05

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

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Science

by Andrew Kun

Following up on Nate Purmort’s post on how congitive bias can lead to problems in research, I wanted to introduce the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor who discovered the importance of hygiene in preventing disease, specifically puerperal fever. You can read the story of Dr. Semmelweis’ life and work (where else?) in this …

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Sep
26

Using HP Deskjet duplexing with Windows Vista

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Vista

by Andrew Kun

I have an HP Deskjet 6540 with a duplexer unit. When I upgraded my computer to Vista I could not use the duplexer. There was no way to select double-sided printing in programs such as Word and Acrobat. This problem can be fixed by going to Printers in the Control Panel, right-clicking on the HP …

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Sep
19

Seeing Machines demo

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by Andrew Kun

Project54 hosted Shaun Cotter of Seeing Machines, who demonstrated the Seeing Machines eye tracker called faceLAB. The eye tracker consists of two cameras, a laptop running image processing software, and an IR illuminator. You can see the entire setup in this picture: The two cameras are sitting on the laptop, and between them you can see IR diodes …

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Sep
14

MITCH at Tilburg University

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by Andrew Kun

Several attendees at Sigdial 2007, e.g. co-chair Harry Bunt and local chair Simon Keiser, were from Tilburg University. The list of Tilburg people included Piroska Lendvai, who gave a talk on dialogue processing. Piroska also told me about a project she’s just started working on, called MITCH, for Mining for information in texts from the …

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Sep
09

Impressions from Sigdial 2007

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Immediately following Interspeech 2007, Alex Shyrokov, Zeljko Medenica and myself attended Sigdial 2007. Alex and I had a paper at the conference, written in collaboration with Peter Heeman. Alex was in charge of giving the presentation and he did an excellent job. The venue for Sigdial 2007 was the University of Antwerp, specifically a building …

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Sep
05

Impressions from Interspeech 2007

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by Andrew Kun

Hi all, Last week I attended Interspeech 2007, along with Zeljko Medenica and Alex Shyrokov. Zeljko and I had a paper at Interspeech, along with Tim Paek of Microsoft Research. This was a pretty large conference, with around 1,200 attendees from all over the world. The conference was somewhat selective, with an acceptance rate of just under …

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Aug
22

Chris Gaudreau defends MS thesis

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Project54,
UNH ECE

by Andrew Kun

Christopher Gaudreau, one of my graduate students for the past 2 years, has defended his MS thesis. Chris worked on developing software for a handheld computer version of the Project54 system. Chris’ software enables officers to interact with the in-car Project54 system from outside the cruiser. Chris conducted a pilot deployment of the software in …

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Aug
21

Owen Derby presentation on driving simulator scenarios

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by Andrew Kun

Owen Derby, a participant of the St. Paul’s Advanced Studies Program, spent several weeks during this summer working in the Project54 lab. He created several scenarios for the Project54 driving simulator. The scenarios are to be used in testing driver distraction. Here is a picture of Owen during the presentation he gave about his work at …

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Aug
16

Ubicomp vs. pervasive computing vs. ambient computing

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by Andrew Kun

Ever wonder what the difference is between ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), pervasive computing, ambient computing, and a plethora of other terms used by researchers to refer to interconnected computing devices embedded into the world around us (hmm, is this a definition?). Albrecht Schmidt takes a crack at making sense of the different terms in this post …

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Aug
09