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Interests:
- "Aware world". Ubiquitous computing and networking,
including especially:
- Strategic Planning - How to extend and restructure the
consumer product and information technology spaces and
create viable business models so that people benefit from
this entirely new and different relationship to technology
and information. And what should these interacting
systems do, anyway?
- Systems Architecture - How do all these disparate
elements interact and communicate, now and extensibly for
the future?
- User Interface - How to present what set of functions
so that additional integration and capabilities make each
person's technology experience better and more transparent
instead of burdensome.
- Human-oriented Computer Interfaces, including physical user
interfaces, such as "soft bookshelf", and other alternative
interfaces, such as "fish-eye views".
- Non-speech "environmental" sound in user interfaces.
Sonification.
- Medium and larger-scale civic artworks/installations.
Please see our summary of on-going
research page and Publications.
Projects:
- Early Digital Synthesizer Design
Architecture and design of MSI and nMOS VLSI prototypes for
a programmable real-time signal processor for music
synthesis. The system design (1979-1980) predated the
first commercial digital synthesizers, and advanced one of
the earliest serious proposals of the need for sampling
rates higher than 48KHz and resolution greater than 16
bits. It also anticipated a number of later trends in
computer architecture - wide instruction word (VLIW), 5 step
pipeline, multiple request asynchronous bus architecture.
The VLSI design was done in the colored pencil days,
immediately following the release of Conway and Mead's
seminal VLSI design book.
Publications:
- "Further Uses of 'Scenario'",
Association of Computing Machinary - Special Interest
Group on Computer Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)
Bulletin, 1992
- "Summary of Current Research, Position
Paper",
Proceedings Addenda, ICAD '94 - Second International
Conference on Auditory Display, Santa Fe Institute,
1994
- "Recreating Reality, Redefining Art", Panel Presentation,
Proceedings of the EXTRO-2 (Extropians') Conference, 1995
- "Seybold Digital World Conference -
Report and Commentary",
European Multimedia Bulletin,
London, 1991
- Cover photographer for an issue of Atari Explorer magazine.
Distributed internationally.
- Photographs for Vogue Italy, Omni Germany, and a
Brazilian magazine.
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