• THATCamp Games Kinect Workshop

    by  • January 18, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Hello all! I Hope you’re prepared to join the numerous hackers that are gearing up for the launch of the Kinect for Windows platform. I’ll be presenting the key concepts behind the Kinect, along with some compelling applications in games for THATCamp Games, hosted at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities on Friday. [...]

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    Techno-bliss and Word Processors

    by  • May 18, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Word processing is a huge deal, with Microsoft struggling to maintain the power and necessity of offline applications in the face of Google Doc’s cloud-based approach. Alex Jarvis describes a solution using a java app called JDarkRoom and the ever popular DropBox in an article on ProfHacker, a column about technology and “hacks” in the [...]

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    Inventing the Future of Games 2011

    by  • April 16, 2011 • 0 Comments

    I was happy to attend and be a part of the future of games yesterday in Milpitas, California at the launch of the Games and Playable Media Center at UC Santa Cruz. I was there demoing an application, SpyFeet, which I created a video for: Future of Games: Driving Innovation with Technology Research I’m in [...]

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    Literary Crossdressing

    by  • May 31, 2010 • 2 Comments

    “There was once a girl who lived in a small village by the sea. She was in many ways like all the other girls in the village, except for her desire to fly. One day, when she was sitting on the cliffs watching the stars and the lights in the sky, her imagination filled in the details of a vast space battle taking place above her.”

    When you see a paragraph like the one above, devoid of author, absent any context, you know that a story is being told. If the spell of the narrative is cast correctly, then the questions furthest from the reader’s mind are what the gender of either the author or the narrator. However, what you are absolutely aware of are two facts: not only is she different, but that she is a she. Does the fact that I wrote it change it any, even after you have read it?

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    Destroying Interdisciplinary Myths

    by  • May 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

    A hack is a clever way to overcome existing resistances and thus expose the potential for more. I once toured MIT and was introduced to a few such famous “hacks,” including one where a police car was reassembled on the roof of a building. Though this has no immediate relation to the popular idea of [...]

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    Renewal

    by  • February 5, 2010 • 0 Comments

    The site has been suffering a little over the past few days, and I should have checked it more frequently. For the moment, I’ll cherry pick the old blog entries as I set up the new structure of the site. I’m looking to migrate the organization completely over to Flex, retaining this version for mobile [...]

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