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POLAR PLUNGE ON NEW YEARS DAY, JANUARY 1ST, AT 12NOON...
See also our Facebook event.
Virtual / eXtended / Augmented Reality Activism Illuminates Ontario Place for
Winter Solstice on December 21st:
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Facebook event
Check out the Proceedings of our Mersivity / WaterHCI Symposium available on
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10447905 (link)
MERSIVITY 2023 SYMPOSIUM
THURS. DEC. 14TH, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, MC102
WATERHCI / MERSIVITY 2023 SUMMER SYMPOSIUM WAS HELD TUES. AUG. 15TH, AT MICHAEL
HOUGH BEACH (FORMERLY LAKESHORE BEACH), ONTARIO PLACE WEST ISLAND (LINK).
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Steve Mann running for Toronto mayor...
Beyond Metaverse... IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Call for Papers
JOIN US FOR THE MAYORAL CANDIDATE'S DEBATE AT MICHEAL HOUGH BEACH, TORONTO'S
CLEANEST BEACH UNDER THREAT OF PRIVATIZED DEVELOPMENT...
Facebook, ToDoCanada.ca, blogTO
Petition to save downtown Toronto's only beach which is also Toronto's cleanest
beach:
Why we swim:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBORGS IN ETHICS, LAW, AND ART
DECEMBER 14-15TH, 2021
(link)
Link to conference proceedings PDF, 108 pages, approx. 10 megabytes (10444390
bytes exactly) ...
Excerpt: Intro + Can Humans Being Machines Make Machines Be Human?
Excerpt without intro pages
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 24TH ANNUAL WATER-HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DECONFERENCE
MARCH 30TH, 2022
Link to WaterHCI-2022 (de)conference proceedings PDF...
WaterHCI website: www.waterhci.com
See also last year's WaterHCI (de)conference proceedings.
RELATED COURSES AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO:
ECE1724: SUPERHUMACHINES: MAKING CYBORG TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUPER-HUMAN-MACHINE
INTELLIGENCE.
ECE516: INTELLIGENT IMAGE PROCESSING (LINK)
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN CYBORG TECHNOLOGIES:
MANNLAB IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE INNATE HANDS-ON INVENTORSHIP
SKILLS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MAKING THINGS SINCE CHILDHOOD.
Advanced makers: "jam" with us!
Beginners or novice makers: we offer the meta-mentorship program.
MANNLAB STUDENT MENTORSHIP EXAMPLES:
* Maya Burhanpurkar, Age 15, mentored at Mann's lab, won the Canada-Wide 2014
Science Fair, with scientific experiment based on Mann's concept of absement
(link). Recipient of the international Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
medal. She is now at Harvard University, studying Engineering Physics and
Computer Science.
* Mann's MaSc students James Fung (now with Google) and Chris Aimone, together
with Mann, and others, co-founded InteraXon and raised $28,800,000.
InteraXon's Muse product, now sold in Best Buy stores all across North
America and on Amazon.com, is known as "The King of Wearables" (BetaKit), the
#1 in wearables (PC Retail) and "the holy grail for mindfulness", ("Muse 2
review: The world's best meditation tech just got even better").
Caption: Muse2 Launch day at InteraXon, 2018 October 30th.
See also Time-frequency analysis of visual evoked potentials using chirplet
transform, Cui, Wong, and Mann, Electronics Letters 41(4), p217-218.
* While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Ryan Janzen founded a transportation
company (Transpod), raised $65,000,000 ($20,000,000 investment + 32,000,000
Euro grant), and also won the "Innovation of the Year Award".
* While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Raymond Lo (now at Harvard) founded
Metavision, raised $75,000,000, and created the world's first extramissive
spatial imaging augmented reality glass, based on the
metavision/metaveillance and wearable computing technology that Mann invented
during childhood [IEEE Computer 30(2), p25-32, February 1997; USPTO
61/748,468, 61/916,773, and 20140184496] using video feedback to sense
sensors and visualize their capacity to see.
Caption: Raymond Lo and Steve Mann with Metavision eyeglasses.
Caption: Metavision for visualizing vision sensors, and seeing their capacity
to see.
Caption: One of Steve Mann's childhood inventions, Metavision (the vision of
vision, sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense) with the
Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM). In this early photograph, Mann has
captured a camera's capacity to "see", i.e. a visualization of vision. More
generally his ability to sense sensors and sensing their capacity to sense
allowed him to create many other inventions in the area of vision, sensing,
and sensors.
Metaveillance for sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense. In
this photograph we we see the sensory interference pattern between two Shure
SM58 microphones.
WEARTECHTM
45 years of wearable augmented reality computing: WearTechTM since 1974.
ECE516 course: Register now!
You might also like to register in my other course, Inventrepreneurship
(Invention + Entrepreneurship), APS1041.
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MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR TALENTED INDIVIDUALS:
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WearTechTM, WearCompTM, WearCommTM, and WearCamTM (Wearable Technologies,
Computation, Communication, and Sensing) research, consulting, public speaking,
inventing, products, and philosophy. WearTech is one of four main research
thrusts, together with: Sousveillance; Suicurity; and Humanistic Intelligence.
VRTO2016, Virtual and Augmented Reality 2016 Keynote
Here is a link to the Conference Proceedings. (Also, here is a link to the Intro
text.)
CVPR 2016 Workshop on "Moving Cameras Meet Video Surveillance: from Body Cameras
to Drones"; see also workshop website.
Imprint invisible sound and radio waves onto your retina: Augmented reality with
perfect alignment
(Instructables.com)
"Phenomenal Augmented Reality" is a featured Instructables article now. They
sent me a message: "Being featured means we think you are awesome."
ECE516 (ECE516H1S): WEARABLE COMPUTING, IOT (INTERNET OF THINGS), AND AR
(AUGMEDIATED REALITY) GLASS
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The Birth of Wearable Computing: 42 years of Augmented Reality. (Left-to-right):
Steve Mann, age 12, Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM) in 1974; Stephanie
Mann, Age 9, Robot for visualizing ElectroMagnetic Wave Propagation; Jayse
Hansen, Hollywood's #1 UI designer (now a Meta employee) with Meta Glass;
Metasensing (visualizing vision and sensing sensors and their capacity to
sense).
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ECE516 is based on mathematical frameworks that use Integral Kinematics and
Integral Kinesiology and the time-integral of distance: Absement (Absition)
PHENOMENAugmented Reality, IEEE Consumer Electronics, Volume4, Number 4, October
2015:
A.I. IS A HALF-TRUTH WITHOUT H.I.!
POVAR AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE INTERNET OF TRUTH AND INTEGRITY FOR CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS: SEE THE INVISIBLE WAVES THAT SEE YOU!
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Room WI1017, Wilson Hall, New College
40 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S
STEVE MANN: 41 YEARS OF WEARABLE AUGMENTED REALITY AS A NATURAL USER INTERFACE:
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF PHENOMENAL AUGMENTED REALITY
2015-10-27 12:30 AT MARS
JOIN MARVIN MINSKY, NEIL HARBISSON, NAHUM GERSHON, MYSELF, AND MANY OTHERS AT
IEEE GEM2015, OCTOBER 14-16, AND HOLD IN YOUR HAND 41 YEARS OF AUGMENTED REALITY
HISTORY: WE'LL BE DOING AR PORTRAITS LIKE THIS YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU TO SHARE
WITH YOUR FRIENDS:
IEEE GEM2015
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CAPTURING THE FUTURE
WEARABLE CAMERAS, LIFELOGGING, SOUSVEILLANCE, BIONIC EYE IMPLANTS, DRONES,
360-DEGREE CAMERAS & 3D SCANNING
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
MaRS Discovery District
101 College St, , Toronto, ON (map)
"As far back as our cave dwelling days we have been compelled to document and
tell the stories of our lives. We have come a long way since chiseling pictures
on rocks with nearly 2 billion of us walking around with cameras in our pockets
but new technologies such as wearables and drones are taking us even
further...."
CALL FOR PAPERS: VEILLANCE AND TRANSPARENCY (LOCAL CACHE HERE, EYETAP CACHE
HERE, AND PDF)
EGOGRAPHY: WEARABLE AUGMENTED EGO-VISION FOR EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE
... Egocentric (First-person) Vision, Steve Mann, Kris M. Kitani, Yong Jae Lee,
M. S. Ryoo, Alireza Fathi
Wearable Computing with 3D Augmediated Reality, Digital Eye Glass, Egography
(Egocentric/First-Person Photographic/Videographic Gesture Sensing), and
Veillance
Download the PDF, 4-page paper by Steve Mann, Steve Feiner, Stefano Baldassi,
Soren Harner, Jayes Hansen, and Ryan Janzen
Wearables + IoT = Veillance = SMARTWORLDs = Workshop at Stanford 2015 Jan 16:
http://wearcam.org/tei2015/
Spaceglasses are the ultimate meta-sensor == a sensor that can sense sensing
itself. More generally, Meta can function as the device of devices, by being
your plenary form of interaction with the "SMARTWORLD"... more detailed
description.....
(Visualizing Vision, Seeing Sight, and Sensing Sensing with the Meta Spaceglass)
"CLEARLY THE BEST BUSINESS SCHOOL ON THE PLANET! "WHERE BRILLIANT MINDS MEET THE
PAVEMENT" HTTP://WWW.CREATIVEDESTRUCTIONLAB.COM #UOFT"
Joseph Melanson 2015mar04
FITC WEARABLES
FULL-DAY EVENT ON WEARABLES
Talk slides, etc.
Keynote Address at the FITC (Future, Innovation, Technology, Creativity)
Wearables, 2014 November 13th at 10:10am, GLENN GOULD STUDIO, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
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HISTORY AND FUTURE OF AR VISION: THE 35 YEAR CONVERGENCE OF WEARABLE CAMERAS,
WEARABLE COMPUTERS, AND WEARABLE DISPLAYS INTO THE "DIGITAL EYE GLASS"
(above: 1978-1980 and now)
Meta Digital Eye Glass which has some features of Generation-5 DEG:
http://www.meta-view.com
IEEE ISTAS 2013 = INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY:
SOUSVEILLANCE, CORBETTREPORT
The IEEE Spectrum article on Wearable Computing.
Using Sousveillance to Defend the Commons, by David Bollier, Wed, 06/25/2008 -
23:00
WEARABLE COMPUTING AND INTERACTION DESIGN (EYETAP DIGITAL EYE GLASS, ETC.)
* Quantigraphic camera promises HDR eyesight from Father of AR
* Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers.
* The Guardian: "The first surprising thing about Google Glasses is that
anybody thinks this is a new idea (just have a look at this history of mobile
augmented reality). Steve Mann, a Canadian known as the father of wearable
computing, has been developing systems since the 1980s..."
* Article on Wearable Computing in Interaction Design
* EyeTap.org/publications
* Wearable Computing (underwater wearable computer with Brain Computer
Interface shown in picture); quote: "Steve Mann, the great Canadian at the
origin of what we can now call wearable computing."
* Commentary on wearable computing article
* Wearable computing, past and future
* Related work by Frank NIELSEN, INF555 | Fondements de la 3D (Fundamentals of
3D)
"Through the Glass": IEEE Technology and Society, Vol 32, No. 3
EQUIVEILLANCE VERSUS MCVEILLANCE
* McVeillance: How McDonaldized surveillance creates a monopoly on sight that
chills AR and smartphone development
* How McDonaldized surveillance creates a monopoly on sight that chills AR and
smartphone development
* Augmediated Reality and McVeillance
* Jessie Hirsh
THE WATERLUTION TORONTO HUB
UPCOMING COMPETITION "ARTFUL WATERS: IGNITING CREATIVITY FOR CHANGE", APRIL 30
DEADLINE
ARE YOU A COMPOSER IN CANADA OR ABROAD?
* Do you have a passion for protecting our most precious resource?
* Care to give voice to water issues?
* Here's your chance!
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS APRIL 30, 2012.(LINK)
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If you want things organized, don't read this page. Instead visit
www.eyetap.org/publications, or the Web 3.0 page (cyborgspace).
'Sousveillance', In Los Angeles Since The LA Riots
OCAD sur/sousveillance sur/sousvey
Passenger acquitted, refused to show ID and videotaped the incident at an
airport security checkpoint.
Art Prof Lets World Peer Through His Surgically Embedded 3rd Eye.
Here Comes the Wetware.
To see presentation on sousveillance at DIY Citizenship conference, scroll ahead
to
27:00 (and watch to about 50:00) and then scroll ahead to 1:36 (and watch to
about 2:05) at this link.
Tell the Government to Say Cheese
Singularity Summit:
* Humanistic Intelligence Augmentation and Mediation
* Water Flute Gives a Glimpse of Future Interfaces, Priya Ganapati, 02010aug16
* Favorite at Singularity Summit is Steve Mann on virtual reality & cyborg
living. He comes with a Canadian sense of humor - #SS2010 10:20 AM Aug 15th
via HootSuite MagicSauceMedia
* The Ladder Theory of Surveillance and sousveillance
* Steven Mann on H2Organ at Singularity Summit 2010
Here's some interesting talks on sousveillance:
* Conférence Sciences en Tête - Jean-Gabriel Ganascia "Surveillance et
sousveillance à l'âge de l'information" jeudi 16 septembre
* Technology and the Rise of Police Sous-veillance
Pay to Sit, also on vimeo.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/05/25/experimental-sound-music/>7
Curious Experimental Music Projects
CBC GO! Owen Pallett and Musical Instrument Madness
Hydraulophone, balnaphone, etc., featured on Soundbuilders; also here's a piece
not used in the Program.
Aquatune hydraulophone
ORGANic Evolution
See The Toronto Star, Thursday, March 11, 2010,
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/778012--ambling-on-the-andantephone
H2Orchestra performing for National Capital Commission, Ottawa from Steve Mann
on Vimeo.
H2Orchestra Performing for National Capital Commission in Ottawa - More amazing
video clips are a click away
Vote for the use of hydraulophones to provide clean drinking water Chris
Willmer's proposal to use hydraulophones for water filtration...
hydraulophone in trendhunter
Hydraulophone listed as one of the top 10 musical instruments....
IAAPA FUNworld: SOPHISTICATED FUN.
...Interactive Musical Attractions.
Hydraulophone & Glass Armonica
Aquatune Hydraulophone manufactured by WhiteWater West (licensee hydraulophone
invention)
Vote for hydraulophone which was nominated for Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, PEOPLE'S DESIGN AWARD
Musical Water Instruments H2Orchestra playing at LiveH2O
Invited hydraulophone lecture at Queen's University:
bemes; The Terasem Movement 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons;
blog
Obama for Sousveillance
Community Sousveillance and "sousveillance officers".
Sousveillance means we watch the watchers.
Peter Gabriel sousveillance
scan again FRANKFURT VON UNTEN DIE STADT AUS SOUSVEILLANCE PERSPEKTIVE
clancco...;
Robert Thill's article on Prior Art exhibit at Gallery TPW, etc.
...
FL_UI_D Lab.
Freely | Limitless | | | Device(s)
Fluidly | Liquid | User | Interface | Design(s)
Flexible | Lifelong | ---- | --------- | Definition(s)
Fun | Lossless | | | Description(s)
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lifeboat foundation
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CNIB hydraulophone
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888torontomeetup, as seen on glogger.
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889: Second day of the 888TorontoMeetup, as seen on glogger.
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S. Mann, R. Janzen, C. Aimone, and others will be performing on hydraulophone at
Harbourfront in June:
We're (LUMINAT'EAU CARNIVAL H2O, June 14th and 15th) listed as number 1 on the
Scotiabank Caribana Festival 2008 summer program schedule.
globeandmail.
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hydraulophone article
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H2ORCHESTRA PLAYED AGAIN AT BRAMPTON INDEPENDENT ARTS FESTIVAL (BIAF) FRIDAY,
2008 FEBRUARY 15TH
picture by Marc De Mouy
Waterflute (hydraulophone) played by H2Orchestra members R. Janzen and S. Mann
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View Steve Mann's profile
HYDRAULOPHONES FEATURED IN WATERSHAPES, VOLUME 10, NO 2, 2008 FEBRUARY
.
New Year's Tears... Like glass armonica
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H2ORCHESTRA WILL BE PLAYING IN TORONTO, AT THE MUSIC GALLERY, ON EARTH DAY,
TUESDAY 2008 APRIL 22. SEE HTTP://WEARCAM.ORG/EARTHDAY/...
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KNOX COLLEGE CHRISTMAS SING
Wednesday December 5, 2007
7:30pm
Knox College Chapel
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Hydraulophone performance in Dundas Square as part of Car Free Day:
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Immersed Music was the theme of ICMC 2007, which included concerts at the
DGI-byen "Vandkulturhuset" swim center.
Here are some pictures from ICMC 2007:
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Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Informatics Cymbal H'phone Organflute Plasmaphone
Synthesizer ("Earth") ("Water") ("Air") ("Fire") ("Idea")
These five states-of-matter correspond to the five Classical Greek Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Idea ("Quintessence" meaning "fifth" element which
we realized using Thought Technology EEG instruments). Immersed Music concerts
explored the immersion of these five elements in both water and air:
Solid, Liquid, Gas Plasma Informatics Guitar, H'phone, Flute; Plasmaphone;
Synth/EEG ("Earth", "Water", "Air"); ("Fire"); ("Idea");
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OTHER UPCOMING CONCERTS FEATURING HYDRAULIST RYAN JANZEN:
Pedestrian Sunday in Baldwin Village - Sunday, September 16th!
car-free street festival, Baldwin Street between Beverly and McCaul Streets.
> The theme for this final event of the summer in Baldwin Village is `Tomorrow'.
> "What do you see for Baldwin Village in the future? Given the huge arts
> community we hope to come up with a fun, futuristic vision for the street.
> Visionaries welcome!"
Featuring...
· Gypsy Rebels - Authentic Gypsy Music · Richard Underhill - Juno Award Winning
Jazz Great · Steve Mann Ensemble - International Hydraulophonist, Musical
instrument using pressurized water · irieband - Spirited Reggae Band · Mz. Mosea
and Band - Dynamic Soulful Singer · Max Woolver Blues Band - Grassroots · Chris
Bezant & Craig Saltz Duo - Gypsy Jazz-Django Reinhardt Style · Usmic Music -
Yoshi & Chie Yamano - Guitar, Digeridoo, Sitar, Vocals · Jim Reid - Guitar and
Vocals · Ardene Shapiro - Guitar and Vocals ... and many more Guest Artists ·
Community Think Tank - What's your vision for the future of Baldwin Village ?
...with Michael J. · Baldwin Village Film Fest - Free Movies on the Street.
Bring blankets and pillows ...we'll supply movies & popcorn · Children's Events
:) - games, art & crafts, music, face painting and lots more · Self Guided
Walking Tour of Baldwin Village - present to the turn of the century ·
International Delicious Food ...And a swell time for all !! Time: 12:00 pm to
10:00 pm For more information visit: www.pskensington.ca
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Wheras pianos respond to velocity (hit the key faster to make it louder) and
organs respond to displacement (position of the key), hydraulophones respond to
absement.
ABSEMENT IS THE TIME-INTEGRAL OF DISPLACEMENT
The word "absement" derives from the words "absence" and "displacement". I will
attempt to explain the concept of absement by way of the following simple
example:
Consider a 5-hour train ride that takes you 500 miles directly away from your
home, in a straight line, to another destination where you stay for 5 hours and
then return. Suppose you want to stay wirelessly glogged into your home computer
at a "roaming" communications cost of $1/mile/hour. For simplicity, assume a
linear long-distance rate, i.e. $1/hour when you're 1 mile away, $2/hour when
you're 2 miles away, $3.14/hour when you're 3.14 miles away, etc.. The total
cost of your online communications is $5000, since the absement (time-integral
of displacement) is 5000 mile hours (1250 mile hours on the way to your
destination, plus 500 miles * 5 hours stay = 2500 mile hours, plus 1250 mile
hours of absement during the return trip).
The middle plot shows Displacement. The first 5 hours are spent in the train
going at velocity 100mph (miles per hour) away from home. The area under this
triangular part is 1/2 five times 500 mile hours, which is 1/2 times 2500 mile
hours, i.e. 1250 mile hours. The next 5 hours are spent at your destination,
500miles from your home, where you pay $500/hour for 5 hours, for a cost of
$2500. Staying online during your return trip costs you another $1250.
Your total cumulative running cost is the area under the middle plot up to a
particular point in time. This integral is called absement and is shown on the
top plot.
Each of the three plots is the time-derivative of the plot above it:
* Displacement is the time-derivative of Absement
* Velocity is the time-derivative of Displacement.
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Gallery of hydraulophone pictures
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TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS & SONS TO WORK DAY, THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2007.
Make music with water!! Learn how to play an instrument that uses water instead
of air! Take a look and hear for yourself.
Discover a fun and new way to learn music by using water whistling through small
openings in a pipe. View a children's version of the hydraulophone.
Meet the inventor, U of T Professor Steve Mann, who will demonstrate on
"Nessie", the hydraulophone.
Music can make a splash, so we ask that children bring a swimsuit and towel. The
activity will take place at the Athletic Centre,Teach Pool. There will be change
rooms available.
Register
Tours
News
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Janzen in the news.
Hydraulophone in Experimental Musical Instruments publication
See and hear a musical composition for hydraulophone and orchestra:
Nessie also played at BRAMPTON INDIE ARTS FESTIVAL and the Mayor of Brampton
also played on Nessie.
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Hydraulophone featured on Best internet videos
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Hacked Gadgets Forum
GRAPHICS WORKSHOP
Think or Thwim (main page)
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make music with water
ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE HYDRAULOPHONE:
Sustainable Businesses: Hydraulophone
South instrument
Here's a pipe organ that Chris Aimone and I (Steve Mann) made together, along
with other members from my research team:
FUNtain pipe organ with water-jets as keys, Wednesday 2006 September 20th:
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Download in mpeg 4
Download in avi
Picture slide show
Ryan playing Pachelbel's canon on the South division of the fountain
ece.
Download a higher resolution version of that movie in mpeg 4
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Kris Abel's blog
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OPENVIDIA
OpenVIDIA
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SOUSVEILLANCE
sousveillance is self-enacting
Metal and Flesh, Volume 6, Number 1, submitted 2002 May 1st
Sousveillance:
newschool
lifelogging.
Operation Python...
RFID sousveillance
...use of mobiles in Sierra Leone and Ghana for checking malpractices and
intimidation during elections.
Combining mobile phone cameras with Web sites has proved effective in combating
electoral misdeeds in a number of countries.
A time may not be far-off when mobiles will turn out to be powerfulinstruments
of `sousveillance', or the reverse of surveillance, enabling `bottom-up
monitoring of the state by citizens', for good governance and prompt service
delivery.
Bravo, mobile!
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Harvard University, Berkman Center, Sousveillance Activism
Sousveillance is del.icio.us
sousveillance video on 'gloger
CYBORGLOG:
picture from Nuit Blanche
Existential Technology which asks the question "Can humans being clerks make
clerks be human?", is the philisophical grounding and theoretical basis for the
above examples of sousveillance and cyborglogging.
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WORLD EQUIVEILLANCE WEEK: JANUARY 4-11, 2006
Equiveillance seeks to further the study of the equilibrium between surveillance
and sousveillance (inverse surveillance). Introduced and debated during last
year's opening keynote address at the Association of Computing Machinery's
COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY conference, equiveillance explores the means by
which we might mitigate power imbalances arising from systematic and unbalanced
surveillance. Baa baa May2005
Equiveillance Week kicks off with an ID Trail Mix on Equiveillance by Ian Kerr
and Steve Mann, posted on January 3rd (See the Kerr and Mann 2006 paper, or
download an ASCII text version, or Linux OpenOffice ".doc" version), followed by
a week of active discussion on blog*on*nymity by various guest bloggers,
professors and students. Invited bloggers include Valerie Steeves and David
Matheson, as well as Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T., and Daniel Solove,
Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School.
Article with comments.
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The basic question is whether the negative consequences of widespread
surveillance and collection of personal data can be balanced by individuals, who
are being watched, monitoring and recording those engaged in that surveillance.
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Sousveillance art
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What barriers does the law erect to surveillance and sousveillance in public
places?
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See Nessie, at the Mcluhan Festival Saturday, 2005 September 24th, 2pm, in
Dundas Square.
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FUNTAIN
The poseidophone (water-pipe-organ-flute)
Installation at Pine Hill Estates: Plays music by blocking water jets.
combines the features of a pipe-organ with those of a flute, and it runs on
water instead of air.
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Sousveillance grid, an art-installation by Andrew Collins.
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Sousveillance in New Orleans (along with a critique of sousveillance in general)
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Gathering of the Tribes - Sousveillance
Call for Submissions
Editors: Stefanos Pantagis M.D., Jason Nolan Ph.D.
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CFP2005, Opening Keynote Plenary
Panel on Equiveillance (the equilibrium between surveillance and sousveillance)
ACM CFP keynote and maybecameras were mentioned on Kim Cameron's weblog:
> The conference organizers actually turned every conference bag into a
> maybecamera replete with its individual dome! It was really bizarre and
> effective, especially given the conference title of "Panopticon"... And guess
> what? It's the first time I have come home from a conference with something
> both my (university age) children wanted! -- Kim Cameron
petitions as a form of sousveillance
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"Sousveillance" and the politics of cameraphones.
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Open source sousveillance
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You must remember this, Frank Nack's article in IEEE MultiMedia, January/March
2005 (Vol. 12, No. 1), pp. 4-7; excerpt: "This column introduces the two most
prominent approaches to lifelogging, namely MyLifeBits and EyeTap. These
approaches deal with the problem of establishing media-based memory structures
that address the cognition of audio--visual data with respect to comprehension
and, in some aspects, interpretation...." --Frank Nack.
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Sousveillance snares racist police
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"urbeach" (urban beach)
Ceci ce n'est pas une plage.
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First place winner of the Coram International Sustainability Design Competition
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Sousveillance panel at Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP)
The Sousveillance Sheppard (call for citizens to photograph any suspicious
lorries, trailers and number plates)
making the streets safe with web-based sousveillance cameras
voter sousveillance
Some recent and upcoming events that the ePi Lab (EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab)
is involved with:
* 2004 Apr. 12th: International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance; (see below)
* Article on IWIS 2004 in TheFeature
* 2004 May. 13-16th: digifest (digital design culture conference);
* Article on the opening keynote address of digifest ("CYBORG SENSATIONS");
* 2004 Aug. 6 to 8th: TRANSVISION 2004 (I've been asked to "launch the
conference by delivering the keynote address on the evening of Friday Aug.
6.").
* Followup on TV04 (TransVision 2004) Opening Keynote, entitled "Glogging:
Sousveillance, Cyborglogs, and the Right to Self-modification:
* From Doors of Perception: www.doorsofperception.com .
* hyper-textual ontology.
* "I cannot even begin to imagine the technical complexity and intricacies
involved in pulling that presentation off. ... I can't imagine myself ever
trying to pull something like that off" -- Anders Sandberg.
* SIGGRAPH cyberfashion;
* Sousveillance Issue of The Gathering of the Tribes... CFP
* Stefanos Pantagis has a really cool website up now, covering the New York
sousveillance scene...
* Reference to Stefanos Pantigs website
* 2004 Oct. 15th: Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences.
* Proceedings of ACM CARPE
* Special issue in Tribes, on the topic of sousveillance
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Sousveillance (domewear) on Bruce Sterling's 'Blog
p2p sousveillance
Inverse surveillance
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"Copyright holders won't like it, but we will have the right to capture anything
we witness." -- Britt Blaser, "Over Sousveillance", 4/2/04; 8:36:56 AM,
http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2004/03/26.html
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Others building upon this work:
* Reckless Eyes project (an interesting interpretation in terms of
Merleau-Ponty, etc); here's a short quote:
> From 1994-1996, Steve Mann, the grandfather of wearable computers, wore a
> wireless camera and receiver for almost every waking minute of his life...
> Both the camera and display were connected to the Internet so visitors to
> Steve's www site could see what he was gazing upon, and if a visitor sent
> him an email, it would pop up in the display before his eyes. ... Steve's
> experience of a shared technical gaze explored the concept of sharing a
> live gaze with others - with allowing others to view your world through
> your eyes. ... highly influenced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings in
> which he frequently refers to the seeing and the seen. Merleau-Ponty fights
> the Cartesian model of vision where individuals see the world from an
> external vantage point, or "God's eye" view and stresses that we as human
> beings are not dis-embodied eyes looking down upon the world. ... If we are
> embodied in a shared world, we can be also be seen by those we see.
> Merleau-Ponty identifies the fundamental "reversibility" in vision: the
> observer is both subject and object, the seeing and the seen. ... Steve,
> attempts to give others a god's eye view of the world. ... In his writings
> on the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham attempts to break this reversible vision
> through architectural strategies. He describes the first methods of
> mediated sight where the body of an observer is obscured behind a
> technology through which he can look out. However, when the observed look
> back, they see only the mediating technology, not the observer. Bentham
> tries to break the bi-directional gaze.
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(Related concepts: "minimal compact" sensecam lifeglog lifeblog moblog lifelog
eyetop)
Urban Turbine (rooftop windmill 3 phase generator)
3phase Power to the People!
THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF CYBORG IS NOW AVAILABLE AS ONLINE ORDER FROM BARNES AND
NOBLE. A SPECIAL EDITION VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER VERSION IS AVAILABLE
FROM TEKGEAR
.
Also note that barnesandnoble.com is the same company as bn.com but you need to
use the barnesandnoble.com domain to get a search, e.g. by ISBN, such as for
example:
"http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0385658265".
See also the amazon.ca book reviews.
book and workshop mentioned in igargoyle
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Upcoming sponsorship opportunities: the upcoming Digifest Event, including "A
Celebration of the Art, Science & Inventions of Steve Mann", digifest 2004, ON
THE MOVE, MAY13-16, TORONTO:
(PDF)
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Visual Field Mediation
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Sousveillance: Opening Keynote Address for Academia Week at McGill University
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Visual art: the original reason for the invention of the wearable computer:
.
The wearable computer, in the form we know and use it today, was invented in
Canada in the 1970s for computer-mediated reality, as a visual art form, for
production of pictures like this picture from the mid 1980s.
See a larger version of above picture
See Other examples of Lightvector paintings like the one shown above.
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anonequity
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I've been having a lot of trouble finding a reliable 4way Decora switch
(Leviton's seem flaky, and unreliable). Let me know if you know of any reliable
Decora 4way switch, or a reliable X10 dimmer for that matter.
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Issues in Wearable Computing, by Len Bass, Steve Mann, Dan Siewiorek and Chris
Thompson
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Witnessentialism: Witnessential Networks
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Comparametric Equations WWW site Recent paper on Comparametric Equations
glinaccess: making GNU Linux accessible to the visually impaired (persons with
low vision)
TWO NEW BOOKS ON WEARABLE COMPUTING:
Click here to locate the first book at BARNES&NOBLE
This book teaches the fundamentals of wearable computing and mediated reality,
the EyeTap principle, the mathematical theory, as well as the practical details
of how to design and build these systems.
Click here to locate the second book at chapters.com
This book presents, to the layperson, wearable, mobile, wireless computing and
communication, and personal experiences of inventing, designing, building, and
wearing computers for the past 20 years, as well as how these inventions affect
society as a whole.
The book is usally found in the cultural studies section of the bookstore:
Here it was found on the third floor of Chapters bookstore, on Bloor Street, in
Toronto. (Fullsize pictures taken from within Chapters bookstore can be found
here.)
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An important aspect of CYBORG living is the Cyborg Log (cyborglog, or "glog",
for short). A peer-reviewed journal article on cyborglogs has recently been
published. The article also describes the nonwearable ouiki as an attribution
obfuscator, in addition to ouiki-wear.
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FROM POSTCYBORGISM TO DECONISM.
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RECENT EVENT: DECONFERENCE, 2002 AUGUST 29TH
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EXISTech's wearable face recognizer.
Witnessential Networks
Comparametric Equations
Existential Technology, Leonardo 36(1), 2003 Intelligent fixtures and systems,
Leonardo, 36(3), 2003
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This site is a true "web" (disorganized collection of links), as the web should
be!
It is also designed for easy access to the visually challenged, and to be easy
to read on a wearable computer or EyeTap device, so if you find large font sizes
offensive, then tough.
This site contains no frames, animations, or other viruses, and you will not
require any proprietary plug-ins or proprietary or specific browser versions to
access the material presented here. You can set your browser width to whatever
you like, because I have made no assumptions whatsoever about what screen size
you must purchase in order to view this site. This site will view quite nicely,
for example, on a standard size 640x480 VGA display or a high brightness NTSC TV
picture tube suitable for use by the visually impaired.
If you want a more organized and more desktop computer friendly site, see
http://eyetap.org and http://about.eyetap.org
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The Chirplet Transform, and other new mathematical frameworks for imaging.
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Others, such as L. Onural (running for IEEE President: be sure to vote!) are
also working on chirplet and wavelet transforms (I met him because of his work
on fractional Fourier transforms).
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Anthrax-free environments, and emergency preparedness based on digital signal
processing with application to an infrared sensor operated column shower (as
described in the final chapter of the book "CYBORG: DIGITAL DESTINY...").
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SUBJECTRIGHT (S) AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO COPYRIGHT (C)
FIRST PUBLISHED ARTICLE CONTAINING MATERIAL RELEASED UNDER SUBJECTRIGHT (S) AS
AN ALTERNATIVE TO COPYRIGHT (C)
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Buy No Software (BNS)
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SEEING EYE PEOPLE: RESEARCH PROJECT ON USING LIVE VIDEO FOR REMOTE GUIDANCE OF
THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
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EYETAP DRIVE-WHERE-YOU-LOOK WHEELCHAIR, SIMILAR TO THE EYETAP RADIOCAR...
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DIMINISHED REALITY
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Wearable AI
Wearable Computing: Toward Humanistic Intelligence
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FILM TITLE: Cyberman
Year: 2001
Time: 87 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
``about... the world's first wearable computer...''
``It's a visually intricate look into the head of the world's first cyborg:
inventor, performance artist, privacy advocate... a "Roger and Me" for the
William Gibson generation.''
Cyberman movie reviews.
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THESIS PROJECTS FOR 4TH YEAR ENGINEERING SCIENCE STUDENTS (MANY OF THE MUST
SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS, SUCH AS JAMES FUNG, WORKING IN THIS AREA OF RESEARCH, COME
FROM ENGINEERING SCIENCE.)
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PERSONAL CYBERNETICS, ECE1766, CURRENTLY BEING OFFERED THIS TERM, (STARTED
JANUARY).
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SOUSVEILLANCE, NOT JUST SURVEILLANCE, IN RESPONSE TO TERRORISM
Joici Ito, Japan's leading philosopher on technology, has contextualized many
related issues, such as freedom, democracy, privacy, sur/sousveillance, etc., in
his recent article, Emergent Democracy.
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(SOME OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ECE1766 PHOTOBORGS GETTING READY TO HEAD OUT
ON A SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT.)
ECE1766 (PERSONAL IMAGING) NEW COURSE OFFERING AT U. TORONTO
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(CLICK FOR FULLSIZE VERSIONS OF THIS SET OF PICTURES)
ENGWEAR (ELECTRONIC NEWS GATHERING WEAR) STUDENT PROJECT: DESIGN AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF WEARABLE WIRELESS ELECTRONIC NEWSGATHERING EYEWEAR.
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IEEE COMPUTER, VOL 30, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 1997, LEAD ARTICLE
WEARABLE INTELLIGENT SIGNAL PROCESSING: LEAD ARTICLE FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE
IEEE, NOV. 1998, VOL. 86, NO. 11, COVER+P2123-2151
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VISUAL VICARIOUS SOLILOQUY OF THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT DEFCON7 (MY TRAVEL SCHEDULE
IS VERY HECTIC, BUT I STILL ENJOY GIVING THE OCCASIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT MAJOR
CONFERENCES OR SYMPOSIA, OFTEN AS VISUAL VICARIOUS SOLILOQUYS; CONTACT
ADMIN@EYETAP.ORG WITH AUDIENCE SIZE, PROFILE, ETC..).
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PRIVACY AND WEARABLE COMPUTERS; MCLUHAN CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY KEYNOTE ADDRESS,
1998 OCTOBER 23
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WEARCOMP.ORG, WEARCAM.ORG, UTWCHI, AND STEVE MANN'S PERSONAL WEB PAGE/RESEARCH
MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF WEARCOMP AND MEDIATED REALITY: COMPARAMETRIC EQUATIONS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
* Research interests and papers
(Prof. Mann's research covering a variety of topics)
* The Wyckoff principle, and links to Prof. Mann's other imaging, image
science, image processing, etc., related inventions
(Linked from the Wyckoff Principle WWW page above)
* Interrogative art, cultural criticism, etc..
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(papers pertaining to the WearComp/WearTech/WearCam/WearComp inventions in
the context of re-situating the common everyday computational facilities in a
disturbing and disorienting fashion to challenge society's preconceived
notions of these.)
* Wearable Wireless Webcam and the personal visual assistant.
* See what I'm seeing right now (or what I've last transmitted).
* See a gallery of what I've seen recently (takes a little while to load).
* Load a larger gallery if you have a fast net connection or a lot of
patience (takes quite a while to load all images).
* Remotely control my BoDY
* See a picture of the apparatus (me wearing it), and an earlier version
(~=1990) as hand-drawn by Adam Oranchak.
* Research papers:
* WearComp: A first step toward "Personal Imaging"
* Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future
applications to the disabled)
* `Smart Clothing'
* Smart clothing: Turning the tables (how wearable technologies can protect
our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more
intrusive)
* ShootingBack: A documentary video about making a video about video
surveillance, shot with my right eye.
* Algebraic projective geometry; "Periodicity in Perspective"
* Beyond digital photography: The new imaging renaissance
* Mathematical framework for personal imaging
* Wearable electronic flash with some "kick":
* See some of my work, as well as works by other artists, at the Edgerton
Center online gallery.
* This is how I hold and aim the world's most powerful electronic flash
(40kJ), which I configured as a body-worn tetherless apparatus. (I use it
for architectural "lightpainting".)
* Take a closeup look at the most powerful lamp in the world (energy per
flash up to 40kJ). If you have a fast net connection, you can load a larger
picture of the lamp just before ignition, and during ignition.
* `Smart clothes' and Wearable computing
* Light as well as a humorous look at darkness, the absence of light.
* Privacy issues pertaining to light and virtual light (e.g. video, etc.)
* Netcam previous experiences
* Amateur radio My callsign is N1NLF. A fellow amateur radio operator, N4RVE,
is also interested in ham radio on the move.
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I am a faculty member at University of Toronto; you may want to visit my
official faculty WWW page at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann
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EVENTS OR PLACES OF INTEREST IN CYBERSPACE:
* FPGAs are the future of rapid WearComp and other video signal processing
prototyping. Soon there will hopefully be video inputs on the high speed
graphics processing engine called the "transmogrifier" which would make it
into a processor suitable for use in a reality mediator. The main paper on
the transmogrifier is mirrored on this site as well.
* PRESENCE, published by MIT Press
* Kodak's WWW site
* Cool site of the day
* Interesting devices connected to the net
* Track your FedEx paper submissions. A Beginner's Guide to HTML
* PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language), a simple script language
* a program to arm human rights groups with video cameras, fax machines and
computers
* Baby Emily's home page
* Mili Avital
* Sean D. Tucker flying his airplane through a ribbon 25 feet above the ground
* Vacation snapshots
* I also have an appreciation for the arts, e.g. the use of computers in the
production of fine art.
(Ilija Vranesic)
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If you have a really fast Internet connection, you might want to look at a more
highly graphical version of this page.
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Contact info: Prof. Steve Mann, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical
Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4
mann@eecg.toronto.edu.
© We're supposed to have a Copyright notice in our Web pages. That circle-C is
ASCII 251 in case you were wondering. My Snail mail (Canada Post) is also on
that same page.
Blue ribbon designates Free speech (ribbon used instead of setting background
color to black because this would be a Notscape specific feature).
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This page written for any browser, not specific browsers. It was tested with
Mosaic (e.g. lean and mean, and COMPLIANT to the HTML standards) but if you like
some of the non-standard "features" (pork) in Netscape, you can do things like
try a little try a little bit of push-pull. Then when you get tired of that you
can go back to using the more ``lean and mean'' and compliant lynx or Mosaic
browsers.
glynx (graphical lynx) based on konqueror
The DEC Alpha has held the record as the world's fastest microprocessor since
1992. This makes it a good computer upon which to run GNUX (GNU+Linux) for a
WearComp base station or Interenet gateway.
WearTech/WearComp/WearCam on CNN (1996)
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Russell McOrmond once said: "Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether
it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of
the citizen and not a third party."
Don't let Software Barons force-feed you anything that isn't COSHER!
Always ask for ADVANCE payment if you're giving an expense-paid invited lecture,
otherwise you're extending what amounts to a high-risk interest free loan. ESR
got this one right!
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See http://wiht.co/guidetoaccessibility for useful info on making a www page
more accessible.
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Links to all major wearable computing sites
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Other two-way wearable wireless, tele-actor etc..
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