Public relations services
Work categorized as a corporate asset for GCI Group.
After four years in technology journalism, I "jumped the fence" to become a Senior Account Executive at GCI Group (now part of Grey Global Group).…...
Designed video series standards
Work categorized as a corporate asset/series/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
With little guidance, created a distinctive rhythm and visual style for the professional organization's flagship publication ("Communications of the ACM"), then produced nearly three years…...
Commerce Guys rebranding project
Work categorized as a corporate asset for Commerce Guys.
This online-commerce software company hired me to help re-tool their product line's branding and marketing during a one-week onsite summit at their Paris offices. This…...
Is bitcoin the “currency of criminals”?
600-word blog post for LinkedIn.
A followup to my viral hit, "No, THIS is what bitcoin is, really...", which garnered over 2,600 Likes on LinkedIn within a week. (Like that…...
No, THIS is what bitcoin is, really…
550-word blog post for LinkedIn.
A rebuttal to a misleading critique of bitcoin's economy. Full title is "No, THIS is what bitcoin is, really: Four ways Greg Leffler is wrong,…...
Coverage of Turkish protest in The Netherlands
Camerawork and interviewing for this piece was my first gig for Zoomin.tv. I grabbed my equipment after hearing the protests from my apartment, which is…...
Video for “Computational Support for Academic Peer Review”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Two professors at the University of Bristol discuss how to apply artificial intelligence to improve the peer-review process for journals and conferences....
Video for “Model Learning”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Frits Vaandrager of Radboud University (The Netherlands), on a system that probes unknown systems to figure out their inner logic....
Video for “Cell-Graphs”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A talk with RPI Professor Bülent Yener about a method that lets graph theory help identify diseased tissue....
Video for “The 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum”
7-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A promotional video about the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a week-long meeting of 200 advanced young researchers in math and computer science, together with about two…...
Farm Automation Gets Smarter
1600-word article/news for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview-based news report about how automation is coming to large farm machinery (such as tractors) worldwide....
Video for “Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Matei Zaharia talks about his creation Apache Spark, a modular platform for performing calculations on big data....
Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
750-word article/news for Association for Computing Machinery.
An online report on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which gathers recipients of the world's most prestigious math and computer science awards (Turing, Fields, Abel, Nevanlinna)…...
Video for “A Brief Chronology of Medical Device Security”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Vanderbilt University Dean M. Eric Johnson reviews how medical device security issues, including those in their software, have threatened health in the past, and summarizes…...
Video for “DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge”
8-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
On-site report from Las Vegas of the "DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge", a multi-million dollar, U.S. government-sponsored competition where computers try to hack each other. Covered…...
Video for “Why Data Citation Is a Computational Problem”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with University of Pennsylvania Professor Susan Davidson about the need to change how source information is cited in (for example) academic papers. She…...
When Computers Are The Hackers
750-word article/news for Association for Computing Machinery.
Coverage of DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, a competition in Las Vegas where seven teams trained computers to hack each other for over three million dollars…...
Video for “Computational Biology in the 21st Century”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with ACM Fellow and MIT Professor Bonnie Berger about how to improve computer handling of biological data, specifically relating to genomes....
Drones Too Complicated? We’ll Take Care of That
850-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about "drones as a service": companies that offer to fly drones for various purposes on an as-needed basis....
Video for “Whitfield Diffie/Martin Hellman, 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award Recipients”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Similar to the videos I produced over the past two years to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, and 2014 recipient Michael Stonebraker, this video describes…...