In documenting the various Project54 research efforts I upload many pictures to my Flickr account and many videos to my YouTube account. However, for the past few weeks I’ve had problems connecting to Flickr and to YouTube. Basically, I’d attempt to upload files and the operation would fail. Small pictures would suffer the same fate as large videos - they …
Category Archive: Tips and tools
Jul
10
Changing driving simulator projectors lamps
The Project54 driving simulator has three NEC WT610 projectors. A couple of days ago Zeljko Medenica checked the status of the projector lamps and found that they had very little useful life left (you can get an estimate of remaining lamp time from the projector). As a lamp reaches the end of its useful life it …
Jun
23
Writing about science (and technology)
Check out this article from Cognitive Daily on how to report on scientific research to a general audience. Note that many of the suggestions are equally valid when they’re applied to documents aimed at scientific or technical audiences (e.g. “Explaining your figures is crucial…”). Andrew Kun
Apr
15
Microsoft Live Search Maps: Really cool features
OK, I really like MS Live Search Maps. I tested it out at the suggestion of Tim Paek, with whom I’ve been talking about in-car navigation devices. The topic of web-based navigation came up because Tim and I are interested in comparing the driving performance of drivers who use printed directions with the performance of …
Mar
31
MS Word 2007 equation editor not ready for prime time
Equation editing in Word 2007 is a new feature (no more Insert Object), but it needs some serious work before it’ll be OK to use. The first real problem I had with it was not being able to save my document as a .docx file when I added equations. I was editing an existing file, …
Feb
28
IEEE, please fix Xplore search!
IEEE’s Xplore service is an important source of papers for electrical and computer engineers. However, its search feature is frustratingly poor. Here is an example of how poorly the search works. In advanced search, I initiated a query for “speech analysis by homomorphic prediction” and I specified that I want the query to look at …
Jan
31
Giving a great research talk: presentations by John Krumm and colleagues
The most memorable conference talks I’ve ever heard were given by John Krumm. John is a researcher at Microsoft Research, and he works on measuring the location of people and utilizing this information in a way beneficial to people. There are multiple things that make his talks great, but one thing that certainly makes them …
Jan
29
A connection between skiing and programming
While skiing with my friends (Zeljko and Andras), I’ve made a statement: “Skiing is an investment for me! Lessons that improve my skiing can be transfered to other areas, for example, programming…”. Surprisingly, my friends were paying close attention to my words and immidietly requested a support for my statements (let’s not point finger at …
Jan
16
Time synchronization on LAN
Between our new eye tracker and not so new dirving simulator the total number of computers that we use during our experiments goes to 8. We are analyzing data logs from at least 3 different computers. So here we go: Situation: There are three computers connected to a local network, let’s call them m1, p1, …
Dec
09
Reference Manager add-in for Word 2007
I have been working on my thesis proposal and i am using Reference Manager 11 to keep track of my references. Ian Cassias posted a Power Point tutorial on how to get started with Reference Manager. However, for anyone who upgraded to Word 2007 , here is the link to add Reference Manager as Add-in …