Expertise: Technology

Post author By tgeller
Post date 30 October 2016

Farm Automation Gets Smarter

Screenshot of the article as it appears online

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 23 April 2015

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 24 February 2015

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 6 January 2015

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 22 August 2014

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…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 25 July 2014

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…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 7 July 2014

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…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 22 May 2014

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…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 30 September 2013

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 30 September 2013

Seeing is Not Enough

First page of article as it appeared in print

1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.

An article about vision systems that recognize actions, rather than just objects....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 29 September 2013

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!...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 29 September 2013

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....

Post author By tgeller
Post date 19 August 2013

Overcoming the Uncanny Valley

4500-word article for IEEE.

A feature article about the perceptual gap between images of real human faces near-human representations. Abstract: "What makes some near-human characters scary while others are…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 19 August 2013

Keynote from DrupalCamp Western NY

35-minute presentation for Tom Geller.

Keynote presentation from the inaugural two-day event, "DrupalCamp Western NY" in Buffalo, 14 October 2011. The event's theme was "Hello, Universe", so I riffed on…...

Post author By tgeller
Post date 18 August 2013

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…...