3D on the Web - Introduction to WebGL

This is an interesting talk offered through ACM.
Supplementary Learning Resources from Alain Chesnais
Collada:
Official website http://collada.org/
Tutorials https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/Portal:Tutorials
WebGL:
Official website http://www.khronos.org/webgl/
Tony Parisi's Tutorials http://learningwebgl.com/
Three.js:
Official website http://threejs.org/
Ilmari Heikkinen's Tutorial http://fhtr.org/BasicsOfThreeJS/#2
X3Dom:
Official website http://www.x3dom.org/
Introductory tutorial http://x3dom.org/docs/dev/tutorial/firststeps.html

The Virtual Brain

How it works...

4D Printers

This is pretty cool, researchers are trying to add a 4th dimension to 3D printing. What they are trying to do is print material that can change over time, not just shape, but based on some external stimuli, change of behavior. I find this incredibly interesting.

The article is titled, "’4D printing’ adaptive materials" and is found on kurzweilai.net
Read the article at http://www.kurzweilai.net/4d-printing-adaptive-materials.

A great Ted talk on this same topic:

Google Glass

Our lab, ebiquity, has been playing with Google Glass. So now I am hooked and wondering what sort of app I could develop for Google Glass. I've been doing a little reading on Google glass and came across this blog. The developer, Lance Nanek developed an interesting implementation of panning using head movement.

Watch the video to learn more:


Very cool stuff.

More information for developers is here.

And yet more info for developers.

And if you want Google Glass, then keep up with the latest news.

Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

UMBC is hosting the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.

Register online.

The schedule is now posted.

Snapshot of the schedule:

09:00-09:45 Registration, set up

09:45-10:00 Opening

10:00-11:20 Oral presentations I

Lushan Han, Abhay Kashyap, Tim Finin, James Mayfield and Jonathan Weese (UMBC & JHU). Semantic Textual Similarity Systems

Keith Levin, Aren Jansen and Ben Van Durme (JHU). Toward Faster Audio Search Using Context-Dependent Hashing

Shawn Squire, Monica Babes-Vroman, Marie Desjardins, Ruoyuan Gao, Michael Littman, James MacGlashan and Smaranda Muresan (UMBC & Brown). Learning to Interpret Natural Language Instructions

Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Philip Resnik (UMCP). Lexical and Hierarchical Topic Regression

11:20-12:10 Poster session I

Posters

12:10-12:40 Lunch

12:40-1:40 Panel

"How to be a successful PhD student and and transition to a great job"
Marie desJardins (UMBC)
Mark Dredze (JHU)
Claudia Pearce (DoD)
Ian Soboroff (NIST)
Hanna Wallach (UMass)


1:50-3:10 Oral presentations II

Qingqing Cai and Alexander Yates (Temple). Large-scale Semantic Parsing via Schema Matching and Lexicon Extension

William Yang Wang and William W. Cohen (CMU). Efficient First-Order Probabilistic Logic Programming for Natural Language Inference

Xuchen Yao, Benjamin Van Durme, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark (JHU & UPenn & AI2). Semi-Markov Phrase-based Monolingual Alignment

Wei Xu, Alan Ritter and Ralph Grishman (NYU). Gathering and Generating Paraphrases from Twitter with Application to Normalization

3:10-4:00 Poster session II

Posters

4:00-5:00 Breakout sessions

NLP in low resource settings, Ann Irvine (JHU)

Dynamic Programming: Theory and Practice, Alexander Rush (Columbia/MIT)

NELL: Never Ending Language Learning, Partha Pratim Talukdar (CMU)

5:00 Closing

5:15 - 7:00 Wine down

Wine and beer at Flat Tuesdays, UMBC Commons