The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Since becoming a National Science…
I appeared on the April 16 episode of Good Morning America presenting Kickbee in a story about Twitter and the healthcare industry. We appear at 2 minutes in. It was brief, but very cool!
“Here is a list of tones that go from 8Hz all the way up to 22,000Hz. Itâs fairly common for people who are over 25 years of age to not be able to hear above 15Hz, so this will help you find out…
Evan Williams, co-founder and CEO of Twitter (@ev), gave a presentation at TED 2009 discussing many of the ideas that drove the huge growth of Twitter in 2008, and how they came from unexpected uses invented by the users themselves. At about 4 minutes 53 seconds in, he talks about my Kickbee project! I am humbled.
ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to…
My friend Robert Carlsen created an eyebrow switch for triggering sound effects in our Thinking Physically class, and his picture of me demoing it ended up on Engadget’s write-up of it.
I love adapting programmers’ tools for my writing. They tend to be extremely well-made and stable (because if they aren’t, programmers will fix them or find better ones) — it’s like using chefs’ knives in the kitchen.