Michael Curry gave a talk at UCI recently on the idea of Identity and Certainty and how notions of how people are classified have changed over modern times. His talk is archived at the LUCI blog. Here are the...

This was a talk given at Intel Research by Genevieve Bell on 8/19/2004 about technology usage in the emerging Asian market. Interesting facts she led off with: China has 300M phones, US has total population of 281M. There is...

This talk was an Intel Research Seattle talk by Irina Shklovski from Intel PaPR group. 17% of Americans change their residence in any 12-month period. This means there is a lot of business around moving. Moving isn't considered a...

This was a talk presented at Intel Research Seattle by James Dailey from the Grameen Technology Center in Seattle WA. Mr. Dailey spoke about emerging technologies in the developing world. His aim was to technologically empower the "bottom of...

This was a talk given by Emmanuel Tapia at Intel. It was a bit of a review for me, but what they did was: Install 150 sensors in 4 homes. The homes were not affiliated with the researchers. The...

I went to a Ubiquitous Computing Capstone course final project review today. There were lots of projects being reviewed, but I was interested in one in particular. This group of undergrads built a custom-made PCB board with a gyroscope,...

This is a talk by Adam Rea about some new hardware that might be interesting for new research. It's a matchbook-sized device that runs a Wi-Fi access point and a web server and some basic I/O. It's sort of...

Yuri Ivanov of Honda Research Labs and MIT. He develops machine learning for the Honda humanoid robot, ASIMO. He believes that an adaptive user interface requires some way for a human to direct the adaptation in some naive way....

Dr. P.S. Ramkumar from Intel India Strategic Initiatives. This talk was given at Intel Research Seattle. Modern IT technology does not work for the majority of the world. 85% of the world's population account for <5% of the Internet...