So, I’ve just returned from 2 conferences and thought I’d upload my slides.
4S 2007 – Montreal, QC, Canada
I was on a great panel organized by Tolu Odumosu from RPI on Technological Appropriation. Other panelists included: Tolu Odumosu, Ron Eglash, Min Suh Son, Shib Shankar Dasgupta, and Tarleton Gillespie was our Discussant. Here are the slides from my talk: Web Mashups: Technological Appropriation in Web 2.0 [ PPTX | PPT ]
ISMIR 2007 – Vienna, Austria
I presented 2 posters and 1 paper at this year’s ISMIR. We had the MIREX DIY Service Poster, Jin Ha Lee’s dissertation research poster, and my paper on Human Judgments of Music Similarity from MIREX 2006. Here are the slides for that presentation: Human Similarity Judgments: Implications for the Design of Formal Evaluations [ PPTX | PPT ]
I am visiting Yahoo! Research on Thursday, June 28, 2007. The slides for my talk are available here in both ppt and pptx format.
In this talk I cover some recent research I’ve been doing on the role of copying in the production of web mashups. I talk about the Yahoo! Pipes system and it’s “cloning” function. I also present some preliminary findings from a clone analysis of Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps web mashups source code. Some of this research is part of my dissertation work, where I’ll be studying cloning in open-source.
I also presented some of these findings (the Google Maps parts) in my CSNA poster from earlier this month.
I got a new Wii today! Replaced the stolen one… only took 2 months to find a Wii in stock. Anyway, the new Wii number is 6806 5821 7727 9940 if you want to join my Mii Parade.
It was totally random luck (or maybe fate) that we got the Wii. By a random set of circumstances, I ended up spending an extra day at my parents’ house this weekend. My brother and his two kids were visiting too. My parents went to Toys R Us this morning to get training wheels for my nephew’s bike and while they were there, saw they had Wii’s in stock. They picked one up for me, and boy am I glad I stayed the extra day! YAH! WII!!!! Now, I just have to get my characters back up to Pro level on all sports
April 11, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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My brand new laptop died today – most likely because of some flaky software conflicting with Vista. Anyway, this required a full system reformat and restore to fix. As I was recovering my files, I stumbled across some old photos from past trips. I also found this great video from my trip to Vienna in 2004 for the CHI conference.
I don’t think there is much explanation needed… it is an awesome robotic, self cleaning toilet found in the Europaischerhoff in Munich, Germany.
March 29, 2007 at 10:28 pm
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I get so tired of having to log into the Library website to request books. The worst part of the whole system is having to enter my 14 digit library ID number — TWICE! So, I wrote this bookmarklet which fills in the form fields automatically for me, inputting my ID number and last name. It also preselects “Campus Mail” for delivery and if you are using I-Share, it selects UIUC as your home library.
I made a generator form for it, so you can make your own bookmarklet. The generator runs entirely client-side in Javascript, so I don’t keep your ID number or anything, but you should be warned that the bookmarklet stores your ID number in plain text — meaning if someone got hold of your bookmarks, they’d be able to request books under your account and other devious things.
March 4, 2007 at 11:38 am
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I wrote a bookmarklet which makes it easier to log in to the Library Gateway/Proxy from sites like ACM DL or IEEE Explore or Springer Link. You can also highlight a URL or DOI on these pages and it will generate a UIUC Gateway resolved URL for linking.
November 13, 2006 at 9:10 pm
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Just returned from Banff a few days ago where I was at the CSCW conference. Mike and I led a workshop on Web Mashups where we explored the implications of web mashups for CSCW. It was a lot of fun. The morning was spent hacking mashups together as a group, the afternoon was a bit more hacking followed by lots of discussion of our observations and reflections on the whole process. Some of the high-level themes that emerged included distinctions between web mashups _as_ CSCW and web mashups _for_ CSCW.
Anyway, there are photos of the workshop and other CSCW/Banff fun in the photos section.
October 25, 2006 at 10:04 am
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The 27th Annual Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Cameron Jones (SIG-CAM) will take place this Friday, October 27, 2006 at the beautiful Pennsylvania Manor located at 509 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Urbana, IL. SIG-CAM is the premier annual symposium devoted to the celebration of Cameron Jones’s birth and entrance into this world. The symposium will focus on major trends and challenges in beer consumption, with a special theme of ciders and other mulled beverages. Additionally, there will be sessions on non-alcoholic beverages, and a panel on snack foods and tasty treats. We invite interested parties and experts from academia, industry, and government to attend SIG-CAM 2006.
a.k.a.Cameron’s Birthday Party this Friday, October 27, 2006 @ 6:00 PM
here is a photo of the new dog. his current name is “bear”, it may change. i am insisting that we spell his name with lowercase letters to make him totally 1337 and web2.0 compatible.
he was rescued from a family in dubuque, iowa where he was very much unloved. his previous family left him in his crate most of the time and ignored him for most of the first 18 months of his life. they finally decided to return him to the breeder because they felt it was unfair to the dog — in reality the dog was getting depressed and took to chewing his fur off (thus the reason for his shaving) and the people probably didn’t want to deal with it anymore. anyway, the breeder sent out the alarm to the rescue network and i guess my parents were next in line — or closest, or something. anyway, we have him now. he is a very friendly dog and loves any attention he gets.
