Date: May 2, 2012 Speaker: Jeanne Turner — Small Society Julie is on an early morning training run. She has done some running over the last year, but this will be her first marathon. She doesn’t have a training partner, but a voice in her ear expertly...
Date: April 4, 2012 Speaker: Emily Kemper — PECI Up to 57 million smart meters are expected to be deployed in the United States in the next two decades, which presents an unprecedented opportunity for greater visibility into home energy use. Smart meters...
Date: March 14, 2012 Speaker: Jeff Bryner — Portland General Electric SecViz.org is a great resource for security visualizations, but most suffer from a lack of interactivity. Completing kinectasploit for DEFCON19 made me realize the utility of game engines for...
Date: February 8, 2012 Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Churchill — Yahoo! Research The paradigm of physical computing is well and truly here—sensors and microcontrollers are getting cheaper and more robust, and they are easily programmable. Long associated with gaming,...
Date: January 11, 2012 Speaker: Simran Gleason — The Haunted Garden is a sonic environment that participants control by their mere presence. It is a room that listens to the notes in your voice and uses them to compose music and change the color of the room. As...
