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Privacy is Dead

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:49:10 +0000

About the Talk
You gaze into the Cloud Mirror, and it gazes deep into you. It will violate your privacy, especially if you carelessly litter the Internet with sensitive personal details.

The Cloud Mirror is an art piece which temporarily merges visitors’ online identities with their physical selves. It uses augmented reality, computer vision, and Internet web services to identify visitors by name; mine the Internet for photographs and facts (dirt) about them; and superimpose that data in an on-screen comic book thought bubble that follows the visitor’s motion.

About the Speaker
Eric Gradman is an interactive artist in Los Angeles, CA. His work often features computer vision, large-scale projections, unusual sensors, and custom electronics to produce fun environments that compel people to interact.

Past Talks
BIL 2009 – The Perils of Robotics
BIL 2009 – Demo: Brainwave Controlled iPhone App

About the Conference
BIL is an ad-hoc conference for people changing the world in big ways. BIL2010 was held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA on Feb 12-14.

Full Digital Reconstructions of Brains

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:58:41 +0000

About the Talk
The Knife Edge Scanning Microscope (KESM) is a tool that allows high-throughput digital microscopy. It can take an entire mouse brain (or human tumor) and digitize it at a sub-micron level. Originally developed for analyzing long neural paths, it’s also excellent at tracing microvasculature in a sample. This technology has been under development for 10 years at Texas A&M, and is now being commercialized by Todd Huffman and his company, 3Scan, for many different industries including cancer research (angiogenesis inhibitors).

About the Speaker
Hello my name is Todd Huffman, and these are the things that I do…toddhuffman.pbwiki.com

About the Conference
BIL:PIL is a healthcare unconference, bringing the concepts and ideals of the BIL Conference to the Healthcare industry. We held BIL:PIL 2009 on October 30-31, 2009 in San Diego at the San Diego State University’s BioScience Center. More information at bilpil.com.

Pillbox – Identify Unknown Drugs

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:09:55 +0000

About the Talk
Pillbox is a tool for rapidly identifying unknown pills. It combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with FDA-approved appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown substance.

This is a great tool for poison control, doctors, or anyone who is trying to identify drugs based on pictures and/or descriptions.

Best of all, all the data is public domain and they’re building an API, which will allow other companies to build tools on top of it.

About the Speaker
David Hale works for the NIH as the Project Manager of Pillbox. Pillbox lies at the intersection of his interests: patient safety, biomedical informatics and user experience.

Personal Website | Twitter

Demo: Brainwave Controlled iPhone App

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:35:32 +0000

About the Demo
BESMOKE is a multi-touch aware, sound-sensitive, iPhone accelerometer controlled, brainwave (EEG) reading Navier Stokes fluid simulation demonstration created by Eric Gradman of Monkeys & Robots and Mindshare Labs.

I installed it at the BIL conference this last weekend, and took some time to record the strangest demo I possibly could. Are you confused? Check out the documentation at exothermia.net/monkeys_and_robots/2009/01/26/besmoke-fluid-simulation/

About the Presenter
Eric Gradman has a Masters in Robotics from USC who develops intelligent robots and computer vision systems at Applied Minds Inc. In his spare time he creates interactive, technology-based art installations. He is also a professional clown and circus acrobat, transhumanist, amateur biologist, and world class whistler.

Website | Twitter

About the Conference
BIL2009 was held at CSULB in Long Beach, CA on Feb 13-14.