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…...
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 “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)....
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…...
Checkmate for checkers
600-word article for Nature.com.
A news story about checkers being "solved" -- that is, proven that it's possible to draw against even a perfectly played game....
A star with a tail: Stellar streak tells of 30,000 years of history.
600-word article for Nature.com.
A news story about an astronomical discovery. Intro: "Astronomers have found an unexpected treat on a star first described more than 400 years ago -…...
Plastic sheet delivers wireless power
600-word article for Nature.com.
A news article about wireless power transmission. Intro: "Annoyed by the tangle of power cords under your desk? A sheet of plastic invented by researchers…...
The Future of Free Speech Online
300-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A very brief article about whether survey respondents believe that technology companies in the democratic West will increasingly help repressive governments....
IT drives policy — and vice versa
575-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Reporting on a three-day conference about technology policy. This was my biggest case of preparation overkill: 12,000 words of notes went into a 575-word article....
Practice Makes Perfect, Even for Brain-Controlled Prosthetics
450-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Short, online-only news article about brain-machine interfaces -- or, as I call it, "MONKEYS CONTROLLING ROBOTS WITH THEIR BRAINS!!!"...