Rich Data, Poor Fields
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about use of digital resources and mobile devices to improve crops worldwide....
In Privacy Law, It’s the U.S. vs. the World
1600-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about the special position of the United States in internet privacy law, a topic under special scrutiny after the revelations of Edward Snowden....
Video for “YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Bart Thomee of Yahoo! introduces the Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million (YFCC100M), a collection of images and videos released to aid researchers in computer…...
Video for “Spatial Computing”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Shashi Shekhar at the University of Minnesota, as he describes challenges and opportunities from computing relationships in the spaces of our real…...
Video for “What Makes Paris Look Like Paris”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Carl Doersch about his paper, which shows how Google Street View images can be deconstructed to extract a city's characteristic features. Shot…...
Video for “Information Cartography”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Interviews with Carlos Guestrin and Eric Horvitz, who join Dafna Shahaf in a project to map and connect information much as a metro map visualizes…...
Video for “Rise of Concerns about AI”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Interview with Thomas Dietterich about fears -- both real and imagined -- as artificial intelligence gains capabilities. Shot in the forests of Eastern Oregon....
Mental Health Apps Listen and Guide
1000-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about apps that attempt to discern when their users exhibit signs of depression, mania, and other mental issues....
Video for “Programming the Quantum Future”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Interview with Benoît Valiron about programming quantum computers, in particular about his new language, "Quipper". Shot at the University of Waterloo (Canada) during a conference…...
The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
950-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article reviewing whether search engines et al. isolate us from unusual ideas and beliefs through a "filter bubble"....
Video for “Exascale Computing and Big Data”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with ACM Fellow Daniel Reed about the division between exaflop supercomputing and exabyte data management -- and how each field can inform the…...
Video for “Michael Stonebraker, 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award Recipient”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Similar to the video I produced last year to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, this one describes highlights from the career of this venerable name…...
Video for “Optimization as Motion Selection Principle in Robot Action”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with two French roboticists, with a demonstration of how a humanoid robot actualizes their research....
Video for “Sketch-Thru-Plan”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A researcher and a military expert at Adapx discuss how they speed up battlefield planning with "multi-modal input" that marries speech, sketch, and writing....
Video for “Local Laplacian Filters: Edge-aware Image Processing with a Laplacian Pyramid”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Adobe researcher Sylvain Paris explains how a new method of combining Gaussian and Laplacian pyramids results in image filters that can enhance details without distorting…...
Car Talk
1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Article about vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, touching on vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) efforts, government involvement, and models that feature V2V technologies....
Video for “Hacking Nondeterminism with Induction and Coinduction”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about a new method for comparing the processes called "finite-state machines" that underlie much of computer science....
Energy Harvesting Extends Life of Small Devices
850-word article/online for Association for Computing Machinery.
Article about using power gathered from radio waves, heat, and motion to power small devices such as sensors and cell phones....
Video for “Distributed Information Processing in Biological and Computational Systems”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism introducing a paper that outlines how both computers and members of natural communities (such as ants, birds, and cells) cooperate....
Video for “Computationally Modeling Human Emotion”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about how researchers are teaching computers to understand the processes that create human emotion, possibly leading to better decisions and human-computer interfaces....