July 2012
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WatchMy interview in the Wall Street Journal about EnemyGraph.
February 2012
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EnemyGraph Facebook Application
UPDATE: you can follow the trending & top enemies on enemygraph.com and my ongoing comments on the project on twitter. For press see bottom of this post.
For the past six months my research group has been looking into an app that explores social dissonance on Facebook. Today we are announcing the public release of EnemyGraph. The project was developed principally by graduate student Bradley...
October 2011
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Emotion Recognition Research
Starting this semester my team has begun looking at emotion recognition technology. This is a funded research project with one of our outside partners. The core technology is from a colleague’s team in computer science, building off open source research. Our team is looking at the creative potential and privacy implications. Every technology can be exploited creatively, and experimental...
July 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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belittled
February 2011
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the best fiction films of 2010 were (not)...
Two thirds of them anyway. Seriously though, the most compelling experiences I had in the theater this year in 2010 involved three films, all of which are fictional, two of which were labeled as documentaries.
I saw a good many films in 2010, mostly on Friday nights at the latest possible screening. Most of them were disappointing. But not Winters Bone, I’m Still Here, and Exit Through the...
January 2011
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this is not a blog
What the hell is this?
I’ve had a number of blogs and websites over the years, both personal and professional. I ended up despising most of them, but especially the blogs. I do write the several essays a year, do interviews, and, for a while, did cultural commentary for a major newspaper. But these are exceptions and my time for writing is ever more limited. What I mostly do is make...