Video for “Scene Understanding by Labeling Pixels”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about algorithms that help computers recognize objects within an image, and undestand the scene itself....
Waiting for the Smart Grid
1000-word article/online for Association for Computing Machinery.
The "smart" electric grid has held great promise for 15 years, but it's not always been clear how deeply it's penetrated our infrastructure -- or…...
Video for “Reading News with Maps by Exploiting Spatial Synonyms”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about a system at http://newsstand.umiacs.umd.edu/ that interprets newsfeeds, placing items on a map (among other things)....
Video for “Moving Portraits”
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about turning photo collections into movie-like "Face Movies", via a system that's been incorporated into Google's Picasa photo program. (Many thanks to guest interviewer…...
Computing’s Narrow Focus May Hinder Women’s Participation
1000-word article/online for Association for Computing Machinery.
I was afraid to work on this article about the gender gap in computing because it's a topic surrounded by dogma, strong feelings, and poorly…...
Video for “Efficient Maximum Flow Algorithms”
5-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about the applications of, and solutions to, the "maximum-flow/minimum-cut" problem, which affects surprisingly diverse fields. As before, I did most of this, with the…...
Video for “Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector”
6-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Videojournalism about a program at Caltech that collects seismic data through the cell phones of volunteers throughout the Los Angeles area. I did pretty much…...
Video for the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award
6-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A celebration of the life work of Leslie Lamport, recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award. I did production, direction, editing, voiceover, and most…...
The Forever Disc
2000-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article in the May 2014 issue of CACM about data storage for very long times, e.g. a million years....
How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows (video)
4-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A video to accompany this article in CACM. Wrote, produced, and presented....
How Do You Feel? Your Computer Knows (article)
1900-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article in the January 2014 issue of CACM about "affective computing", which enables your computing device to perceive react to your emotions and moods....
Raising Money the Old-Fashioned Way
"Crowdfunding for technology gains traction" -- an online-only article covering technology funding venues including Fundable, Gittip, Bountysource, and others, with commentary from various players including…...
Supercomputers Get Real
900-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A short online-only article about how supercomputer developers are teaming up with application specialists to make the hardware's power more useful....
Seeing is Not Enough
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about vision systems that recognize actions, rather than just objects....
Making the Internet Safe for Gadgets (video)
6-minute video for Association for Computing Machinery.
A video to accompany this article of the same name. My first solo video production!...
Making the Internet Safe for Gadgets (article)
1800-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article for CACM about competing technologies to repurpose the Internet's host-centric architecture so it's more appropriate for small, often-mobile devices....
Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
1200-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article for CACM online about lifelogging, touching on the related subjects of veillance and "the quantified self"....
Evaluating Government Funding
600-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Abstract: "A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program and specifies areas…...
Regulators ask: What is Bitcoin?
900-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
An article about legal challenges to the decentralized virtual currency Bitcoin, specifically on how the question of its definition affects its place in law....
Exascale Enthusiasm Escalates
200-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A very short report on the popularity of exascale computing at the International Supercomputing Conference 2012....