Andrew Kun

Author's details

Name: Andrew Kun
Date registered: July 26, 2011

Latest posts

  1. eceblogger: a new look — July 27, 2011
  2. Become a fan of UNH ECE on Facebook — July 14, 2009
  3. Alyssa Shooshan and Dean Hingson visit Project54 — June 4, 2009
  4. Project54 Open House — May 12, 2009
  5. NHUPA April Meeting at UNH — May 4, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. Brad Gillespie at UNH — 11 comments
  2. Field testing in-car navigation and the Project54 handheld application — 5 comments
  3. What a joke: Global warming petition project — 5 comments
  4. Giving a great research talk: presentations by John Krumm and colleagues — 5 comments
  5. MS Word 2007 equation editor not ready for prime time — 3 comments

Author's posts listings

Jul
27

eceblogger: a new look

As some of you might have noticed, eceblogger was accessible only intermittently over the last week or so. The reason? Thanks to the hundreds of fun and informative posts by UNH ECE students, staff, faculty, and our friends and colleagues, our traffic was too much for our old hosting plan. So much so, that we kept …

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Jul
14

Become a fan of UNH ECE on Facebook

Are you on Facebook? If yes, check out the UNH ECE page: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire Promote Your Page Too

Jun
04

Alyssa Shooshan and Dean Hingson visit Project54

Alyssa Shooshan, Senator Gregg‘s chief of staff and Dean Hingson Senator Gregg’s new counsel, visited Project54 earlier this week. They toured our labs and the new Project54 garage (the location of our recent open house) and had a chance to see in person the results of Senator Gregg’s continued support for Project54. In the picture below …

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May
12

Project54 Open House

Last Thursday we held a Project54 Open House celebrating the ten year anniversary of this effort. The event was held at our new garage facility in Morse Hall, on the UNH Durham campus. We’ve just recently moved into this facility, which was renovated for our use with the generous support of UNH CEPS Dean Joe …

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May
04

NHUPA April Meeting at UNH

Last Wednesday the Project54 lab hosted the April meeting of the New Hampshire Usability Professionals Association (the NH section of the Usability Professionals Association). What does the NHUPA do? Here is what Michael Hawley, Senior VP for Experience Design at Mad*Pow, and NHUPA president, has to say on this topic: The New Hampshire Chapter of the …

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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 …

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Mar
31

Your future in New Hampshire

See what Matt Cookson, Associate Vice Chancellor for External Relations for the University System of New Hampshire, has to say about opportunities for young professionals in NH: I fully agree with his assertion that NH is a great place to live and raise a family. Andrew Kun

Mar
26

SiMPE Workshop at MobileHCI 2009

The call for papers for the Fourth Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) is now available. The workshop will focus on speech user interfaces for pervasive (ubiquitous) computing applications. SiMPE will be held in conjuntion with MobileHCI 2009 in Bonn. This is the fourth year SiMPE is being organized and I’m thrilled …

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Mar
25

Coffee and barcodes

I was visiting family when I was introduced to a coffee maker that uses barcode technology. The Bosch device below uses a barcode reader to decide how to prepare your coffee. The coffee comes in small cups (similar to the K-cups we use at home), and the cups carry the barcode the coffee maker reads: …

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Mar
12

Commute UX at Microsoft TechFest 2009

Check out the video below in which Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer and Y.C. Ju discuss the Commute UX project at TechFest 2009.  Last summer Oszkar and I visited the MSR driving simulator lab and it’s great to see how quickly Ivan and co. are making progress with the simulator. And it’s pretty cool that the …

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