• Academia

    Techno-bliss and Word Processors

    by  • May 18, 2011 • Academia, Technology • 0 Comments

    Word processing is a huge deal, with Microsoft struggling to maintain the power and necessity of offline applications in the face of Google Doc’s cloud-based approach. Alex Jarvis describes a solution using a java app called JDarkRoom and the ever popular DropBox in an article on ProfHacker, a column about technology and “hacks” in the [...]

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    Inventing the Future of Games 2011

    by  • April 16, 2011 • Academia, Society, Technology • 0 Comments

    I was happy to attend and be a part of the future of games yesterday in Milpitas, California at the launch of the Games and Playable Media Center at UC Santa Cruz. I was there demoing an application, SpyFeet, which I created a video for: Future of Games: Driving Innovation with Technology Research I’m in [...]

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    Destroying Interdisciplinary Myths

    by  • May 28, 2010 • Academia • 0 Comments

    A hack is a clever way to overcome existing resistances and thus expose the potential for more. I once toured MIT and was introduced to a few such famous “hacks,” including one where a police car was reassembled on the roof of a building. Though this has no immediate relation to the popular idea of [...]

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