A week ago Mike, Mark, Eric and me attended another NEC-HFES student research conference in Boston. It is an annual event where students from different areas of human-factors engineering have a chance to present their work and share their thoughts and ideas with other people. This time the conference was held at MIT’s Stata building. …
Category Archive: Talk
Nov
23
Dennis O'Brien's Lecture at UNH
Last week Dennis O’Brien the Chief Electronics Engineer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) gave a very interesting talk in the CEPS Frontiers lecture series. LLNL is one of the premier applied physics laboratories in the world. Together with Los Alamos, it is in charge of managing the US nuclear stockpile. It also runs a …
Nov
02
Exploring Mathematics Night
Last week I attended the “Exploring Mathematics Night,” which is an event organized annually by the UNH’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. This is always a very interesting event intended to promote mathematics and encourage young people with degrees in mathematics about the vast opportunities that are available after graduation. This year was no exception …
May
10
Flywheel Energy Storage
Last week an interesting lecture was held by Dr. Frank Rudolph of Beacon Power about flywheel energy storage systems as part of the UNH’s energy club series of seminars on renewable energy. Flywheels are not a new concept, but the technological development in the last 10 years or so made it feasible to become a …
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 …
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
13
Back-of-Device Interaction Talk by Patrick Baudisch
Last Friday, April 10th 2009, Project54 students visited MIT to hear Patrick Baudisch‘s lecture on Back-of-Device Interaction. Patrick is a research scientist at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. He presented his findings on researching back-of-device interfaces, which is an interesting new concept of human-computer interaction. A predecessor of the …
Apr
07
Report from Paul Green's Lecture and Open House
On Thursday, April 2nd 2009, Paul Green visited our lab. At that time he gave a talk on Human Factors Engineering and spent the whole day at our lab talking to students and visitors of the Open House. Dr Green is a distinguished Professor at UMTRI and the president of the Human Factors and Ergonomics …
Mar
11
Paul Ossenbruggen Discusses Traffic, Denise Markow Introduces NHDOT TMC
On Monday UNH Civil Engineering Professor Paul Ossenbruggen gave a talk in a joint ECE-Math seminar on the topic of traffic. His talk was inspired by Tom Vanderbilt’s book which is also entitled Traffic. Paul introduced a number of interesting topics, such as the Braess’ paradox, system optimization issues and the use of intelligent transportation …