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Steve Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226)

Steve Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226)
Steven Mann (born 1962) is a researcher and inventor best known for his work on computational photography, particularly wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. Early life and education[edit] He is also General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Associate Editor of IEEE Technology and Society, is a licensed Professional Engineer, and Senior Member of the IEEE.[6] Career[edit] Mann is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with cross-appointments to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Faculty of Forestry, at the University of Toronto, and is a Professional Engineer licensed through Professional Engineers Ontario. He is also General Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society and Associate Editor of IEEE Technology and Society.[6] Ideas and inventions[edit] Many of Mann's inventions pertain to the field of computational photography. Anonequity project[edit] Media coverage[edit]

Prof. Steve Mann - (Build 20100722150226) IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society hydraulophone installation at Ontario Science Centre (pictured here with EyeTap wearable computer) Director, EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePi) Lab Director, FL_UI_D Laboratory Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Research Group University of Toronto 10 Kings College Road; office = Room 2001; Mailstop S.F. email to username "mann", at the domain of "eecg.toronto.edu" harmonic telegraph, telephone, phone, or whatever you like to call it: (416) 946-3387, fax: (416) 971-2326 Comparametric Equations (the mathematical theory of computer mediated reality) Wearable Intelligent Signal Processing: Lead article from Proceedings of the IEEE, Nov. 1998, Vol. 86, No. 11, cover+p2123-2151 (scroll down to the feature article of Feb.'97) The complete article is also available from: The chirplet transform Prof.

Kevin Burton Approach from Distributed Cognition Distributed cognition takes into consideration a whole social system of cognition: the coordination between individuals, artifacts, and the environment. Distributed cognition proposes that human knowledge is not confined to the individual. The theory focuses on how knowledge flows through the ecosystem of individuals, artifacts and the environment. By evaluating our work on the Group Web project from the distributed cognition perspective, we can see that our team is comprised of four individuals. We use artifacts such as computers, tablets, the internet to gather information and present our data collected on interaction design theories for the group web project. A Distributed Cognition approach to group web Through the distributed cognition lens, we can better understand the group, artifacts, and environment as a system. Pearltree for Distributed Cognition Theory To learn more about Distributed Cognition, check out the Pearltree! Theories related to Distributed Cognition theory Like this:

liquiface/ Steve Mann A liquid user interface is presented for applications such as immersive multimedia. In one version, one or more sprays or jets create an immersive multimedia environment in which a participant bather can interact within the immersive multimedia environment by blocking, partially blocking, diverting, or otherwise engaging with the spray, to create computational input, in environments such as showers, baths, hot tubs, waterplay areas, gardens, and the like. In some versions, the spraying is computationally controlled, so that the spray creates a tactile user-interface for the control of such devices as new musical instruments. These may be installed in public fountains to result in a fluid user interface to music by playing in the fountains. Introduction: The Liquid User Interface (abbreviated as "LUI" or "LiqUIface") pertains generally to a new kind of input/output device that may be used, for example, to control a computer or a musical instrument.

Aspen Movie Map The Aspen Movie Map was a revolutionary hypermedia system developed at MIT by a team working with Andrew Lippman in 1978 with funding from ARPA. Features[edit] The Aspen Movie Map enabled the user to take a virtual tour through the city of Aspen, Colorado (that is, a form of surrogate travel). A gyroscopic stabilizer with four 16mm stop-frame film cameras was mounted on top of a car with an encoder that triggered the cameras every ten feet. The film was assembled into a collection of discontinuous scenes (one segment per view per city block) and then transferred to laserdisc, the analog-video precursor to modern digital optical disc storage technologies such as DVDs. The interaction was controlled through a dynamically-generated menu overlaid on top of the video image: speed and viewing angle were modified by the selection of the appropriate icon through a touch-screen interface, harbinger of the ubiquitous interactive-video kiosk. Aspen was filmed in early fall and winter. Credits[edit]

Ben Goertzel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (Build 20100722150226) Ben Goertzel (born December 8, 1966, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, which is a privately held software company, and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC, which is a company that provides advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis (especially microarray and SNP data); Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series, an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is an advisor to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute) and formerly its Director of Research.[1]

Gordon Bell Gordon Bell C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is an American electrical engineer and manager. Early life and education[edit] Chester Gordon Bell was born in Kirksville, Missouri. Bell received a B.S. (1956), and M.S. (1957) in electrical engineering from MIT. Career[edit] Digital Equipment Corporation[edit] The DEC founders Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson recruited him for their new company in 1960, where he designed the I/O subsystem of the PDP-1, including the first UART. After DEC, Bell went to Carnegie Mellon University in 1966 to teach computer science, but returned to DEC in 1972 as vice-president of engineering, where he was in charge of the VAX, DEC's most successful computer. Entrepreneur and policy advisor[edit] Bell retired from DEC in 1983 as the result of a heart attack, but soon after founded Encore Computer, one of the first shared memory, multiple-microprocessor computers to use the snooping cache structure. Microsoft Research[edit] Honors[edit] Quotes[edit] Books[edit]

Related Concepts Shawn Brixey Biography Shawn Alan Brixey (born 1961) is Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, in Toronto, Canada. He is the former Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair for Arts, as well as Co-Founder and former Director of the pioneering research centre and doctoral program DXARTS (The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media) at the University of Washington, Seattle. Brixey is an artist, educator, researcher, writer, and inventor working primarily at the interface of art, science and technology. Background Brixey was born in Springfield, Missouri and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and Kansas City, Missouri. In 1989 Brixey was selected as the inaugural Leonardo Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and as a Visiting Artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. Career In 2013 Brixey was named the ninth Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts by York University President, Mamdouh Shoukri. Experimental Media Selected Awards and Distinctions

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