8-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
On-site report from Las Vegas of the "DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge", a multi-million dollar, U.S. government-sponsored competition where computers try to hack each other. Covered…...
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
Similar to the videos I produced over the past two years to celebrate 2013 recipient Leslie Lamport, and 2014 recipient Michael Stonebraker, this video describes…...
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Mason Bretan and Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech, discussing how they (and others) have imbued musical "feeling" in robotic systems....
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
An interview with Sarah Meiklejohn, lead author of a paper that describes how she and her colleagues unmasked some bitcoin owners, despite the common belief…...
4-minute presentation/video for Association for Computing Machinery.
I wrote and edited a tribute to Dr. Hennessy, based on raw video ably shot by Stanford University's media services department....
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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....
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…...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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)....
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…...
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…...
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…...