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....
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 “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 “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....
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....
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…...
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…...
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 “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)....
Envisioning the Wind: Meteorology Graphics at Weather Underground
A feature detailing how the website Weather Underground manages data, produces weather graphics, and collects crowdsourced information to put together its content....
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…...
Aluminum: Common Metal, Uncommon Past
3200-word article for Chemical Heritage Foundation.
A feature article about how Aluminum went from being a precious metal (in its elemental form) to being cheap enough to use as a construction…...
Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping
A feature article for Computer Graphics and Applications, a publication of IEEE. Abstract: "Consumer sites such as MapQuest, Yahoo! Maps, and Google Maps compete to…...
Cannabinoids: A Secret History
3000-word article for Chemical Heritage Foundation.
A feature article about the chemical history of cannabinoids -- the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana -- touching on medical and legal issues. No longer available…...
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....
Control without Controllers
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A feature article about Disney's Touché sensor project, which explores new ways of controlling electronics with touch....