Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

Thanks to mad consumer science like the Microsoft Kinect, the future of human-computer interfaces is approaching faster than a jetpack-powered high-speed rail line filled with Phil Dick novels.

Watch, dumbfounded and thunderstruck, as award-winning Kinect hacker Greg Borenstein (and his grotesquely deformed, half-literate assistant Devin) use open source libraries like libfreenect, Cinder, and OpenFrameworks to build gestural interfaces that let them:

• Play web browsers like violins!
• Manage windows like so many marionettes!
• And, of course, hack on Emacs hands-free with the assistance of nothing but a beard.

Working without a net and at great personal and professional peril, they will show why even the crustiest open-source geeks will be excited to play with this new toy.

Speaking experience

Speakers

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  Greg Borenstein

  NYU ITP
  • Website: http://ideasfordozens.com/
  • Blog: http://ideasfordozens.com/
  • Twitter: atduskgreg

  Biography

  Greg Borenstein is an artist and teacher in New York. His work explores the use of special effects as an artistic medium. He is fascinated by how special effects techniques cross the boundary between images and the physical objects that make them: miniatures, motion capture, 3D animation, animatronics, and digital fabrication. He is currently a grad student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

  Sessions

  • * Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect
    • Title: Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect
    • Track: Hacks
    • Room: B302/03
    • Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
    • Excerpt:

      See! The Amazing Future of Human-Computer Interaction! Behold! The Awesome Power of Open-Source Libraries and Cheap Video-Game Accessories! Fake Beards!

    • Speakers: Devin Chalmers, Greg Borenstein
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  Devin Chalmers

  Independent
  • Website: http://doormouse.org/
  • Twitter: qwzybug
  • Favorites: View Devin's favorites

  Biography

  Hobbyist programmer from a tender age, web developer since 1999, iOS freelancer and Reed graduate in math and philosophy since 2008 currently residing on Manhattan. Presented on citizen code at OSB 2010, active in the academic artificial life community, dabbler. Interested in making simple things well.

  Sessions

  • * Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect
    • Title: Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect
    • Track: Hacks
    • Room: B302/03
    • Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
    • Excerpt:

      See! The Amazing Future of Human-Computer Interaction! Behold! The Awesome Power of Open-Source Libraries and Cheap Video-Game Accessories! Fake Beards!

    • Speakers: Devin Chalmers, Greg Borenstein
  • * The Big Data Exploratorium: Data Mining, from Patents to Memes
    • Title: The Big Data Exploratorium: Data Mining, from Patents to Memes
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: B302/03
    • Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
    • Excerpt:

      Learn to use simple natural language processing and graph analysis tools in Python and R to explore the structure of the dataverse. From Reddit to the USPTO to Google Books, come try some data hacks!

    • Speakers: Noah Pepper, Devin Chalmers