May, 2013 | Geist

A lecture on Improvisation – Distributed Cognition, Swarm Intelligence, Physics, Punk and Zen

On 29 May, 2013By guiheadz With 2 Comments

And I may as well complete the set by posting the powerpoint of the last of the lectures I recently delivered at UTS. It’s on the subject of Improvisation in Audio Culture but covers such theoretical frameworks as Systems Theory, Distributed Cognition and Swarm Intelligence as well as things like emergent and non-linear behaviour before […]

Augmented Reality pushback

On 27 May, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

Just some quick report back from the Augmented Reality front lines. The Google Glass project is still garnering lots of attention from both evangelists and cynics. And whilst there is plenty of ‘whizz-bang’ enthusiasm of the tech sector as this article illustrates, there are also myriad concerns as to the potential for these devices to […]

A lecture I recently gave on Dubstep

On 17 May, 2013By guiheadz With 2 Comments

So, again, I have to apologise – this is slightly off topic in terms of interaction related stuff. But I spent quite a bit of time working on this lecture recently and then gave it last week at the University of Technology as part of my Audio Culture subject so I though I would throw […]

Facebook ‘edge-rank’ gossip

On 15 May, 2013By guiheadz With 1 Comment

Just for the record, I have little interest in improving my Facebook ‘reach’. On the other hand – I am fascinated by the mathematics used to manipulate our environment in that world. Here are two interesting little links. This one is fascinating – it details the workings of the algorithm that determines what information comes […]

New CV

On 13 May, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

Writing a CV is actually quite difficult and I have never really felt fully happy with mine. Up until now that is. I have now spent probably about a week (over the last few weeks) on this thing, including a zillion drafts, paying for a professional to looks at it (total waste of time), playing […]

Got a paper published in INTERACT 2013

On 10 May, 2013By guiheadz With 2 Comments

Great news! I’m being published! Last Summer I spent three months doing some research with NICTA (the federal centre for research excellence in IT) – truly amazing place. I was working with the Machine-learning group – who are using particular computational techniques to make what amount to informed decisions out of messy real-world data. It’s […]