11/13/2009: Emerging Interface Panel Discussion at UCLA / DMA.

11/9/2009: At Stanford to give a talk to Wendy Ju's Music250A class at CCRMA.

11/3/2009: Talk and demo at the Product Development and Management Assoc. conference in Anaheim, CA.

10/28/2009: Demoing at Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age event at Google.

10/15/2009: I keynoted the South Carolina EdTech conference in Myrtle Beach, SC.

9/18/2009: I spoke about Cookie-Scale Computers and Other Physical Approaches to Computing at UX Week in San Francisco, CA.

5/11/2009: I visited and gave a talk about my research at the Santa Fe Complex at the invitation of Project GUTS.

5/1/2009: Handed in my dissertation!!

4/31/2009: I spoke about Siftables and other projects at the Interactive Media and Game Development seminar at Worcester Polytechnic.

3/26/2009: I spoke at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. My talk was about Physical Play: Siftables and Other New Forms and Formats for Interaction, Collaboration and Creativity.

3/18/2009: I made a guest appearance on High Tech Fever, a Cambridge TV show about technology and entrepreneurship hosted by Joost Bonsen.

3/18/2009: Gave a talk IDEO in Cambridge about Siftables and interaction design possibilities for multi-object gesture.

3/14/2009 (PI day!): I was a guest on GeekSpeak, a technology-oriented radio show on NPR recorded in Santa Cruz, CA.

3/11/2009: Jeevan Kalanithi and I spoke about Cookie-Scale Computing at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) in San Jose, CA.

2/10/2009: Now calculating my personal energy usage with WattzOn. Saul, Jim, Raffi et al are doing a nice job to make it easier for peole to get a handle on their energy footprint!

2/6/2009: I presented several new Siftables applications (music sequencer, equation-maker, word-finder, and more) at the Ted conference in Long Beach, CA.

11/21/2008: I spoke at the MOVES Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, CA.

11/19/2008: I spoke at Future Forward, in Weston MA.

10/2/2008: I spoke at the California College of the Arts (10/2) and Stanford (10/3) this week.
[details on Stanford talk]

9/15/2008: I defended my thesis! The title: Gestural Interaction with Embodied Media.

7/27/2008: Siftables featured in a Boston Globe innovation economy article - Rethinking display technology

7/2008: Siftables recognized with honorable mention by ID Magazine's Student Design Review! (Sept / Oct '08 issue) [click here]

my travel 2008:

Mar 17-18	UC Santa Cruz
Mar 20	Nokia Research
Mar 26	PARC
Apr 5-13	CHI 2008
Apr 21	UC Merced
Apr 25	Oregon State
May 1	CMU West
May 20-21	CMU
July 25-27	Sketching in Hardware [ pics ]

February 2008: Manufacturing a run of Siftables for my own work and collaborations with researchers in academia and industry.

December 2007: The Sound of Touch was installed in the Collision 12 art+technology show in the MIT Stata Center, Cambridge MA.

Autumn 2007: Siftables Development. This fall I am finishing the hardware and operating system for Siftables, and exploring the space of possible applications.

October 5, 2007: Critique! I "defended" my Ph.D. thesis proposal to my readers, and interested parties from the Media Lab community. Slides are here.

October 1, 2007: New Sound of Touch Video posted - click here to view.

August 5-9, 2007: SIGGRAPH. Hayes Raffle and I showed the Sound of Touch at SIGGRAPH 2007, in Emerging Technologies (E-Tech). Here is the page for the SIGGRAPH demo, and here are some photos from the exhibition.

July 10, 2007: Sound of Touch in the news. The Sound of Touch was featured in an article on Discovery News.

May 19-20, 2007: Maker Faire. Ben Vigoda, David Bouchard and I took Audiopint to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. More info about the faire here, and until the 19th, our virtual booth is here. My photos from the event can be found here.

April 21st, 2007: Laetitia Sonami, Joel Ryan, and Inventmusic. Along with other InventMusic collaborators, I played at a concert April 21st, 2007 at Killian Hall (MIT). We are 1/3 of the evening's musical entertainment, along with Ryan and Sonami. [full post], [poster]

April 18th, 2007: Inventmusic jam session. We had a public jam session that brought people together to play with the PureJoy-JamiOki installation in the Stata building.

March 19th, 2007: PureJoy / JamiOki / AudioPint installation going up in the MIT Stata Center on Monday! read more

March 16th, 2007: I was on the front page of the wall street journal today, in an article that has absolutely nothing to do with my research! Well, I suppose you've got to start somewhere :)

March 16th, 2007: I was on the radio tonight with the PureJoy vocal sampler/looper/manipulation instrument - on WMBR 88.1FM.
more info.

March 2007, 2007: I moderated a panel discussion for Grad Arts at MIT on the 7th. The topic: ambiance!

February 2007: I co-led an AudioPint-building workshop at the Media Lab. We made a lot of progress, and now there are more AudioPints out there in the world! pictures here.

Fall '06: I worked with Joe Paradiso to TA his class Principles of Electronic Music Controllers. Pictures from final presentations are here.

Summer 2006: Ben Vigoda and I have launched inventmusic.org, a website/blog that chronicles our regular music technology build-days and performances, and archives photos and video covering our exploits. check it out!