Published between 2007 Sep and 2008 Mar:

  • Take your ThinkPad out for a walk to create wireless site surveys Take your ThinkPad out for a walk to create wireless site surveys, Use the accelerometer embedded in a ThinkPad to record your movements while monitoring your network connectivity. Use custom algorithms to extract footstep features from the recorded data, then automatically plot signal strengths on a floor-plan map to determine the best areas of coverage. Local cached text.

  • Expand your text entry options with keystroke dynamics Expand your text entry options with keystroke dynamics, Measure the total time of entry and verify the time between keystrokes to help authenticate a user regardless of the data being entered. Require nonprintable characters, such as backspace and break, in the password to enable new levels of password obfuscation. Learn how to apply the open source tools xev and Perl in keystroke dynamics to measure the more-subtle characteristics of human-computer interaction. Local cached text.

  • Create automated verbal conversation annotations Create automated verbal conversation annotations, Use the open source Sphinx-4 speech-recognition package to capture letters and numbers from spoken conversations in near real time to create notes. Employ a custom Sphinx-4 dictionary file to extract likely matches to spoken letters and numbers. Process the text for higher order values such as phone numbers and acronyms, and create a meeting annotator through search-engine lookups and local databases. Local cached text.

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Current: mouse dynamics user authentication, smart activity monitors, automatic idle computer shutdown.

2008 Sep -> 2008 Oct: Rotated online maps, continuous keystroke dynamics, altitude enhanced google earth visualizations, focus tracking indicators.

2008 Jun -> 2008 Sep: Time availability maps, enhanced firefox find, Google calendar encryption, visualizing temporal data.

2008 Mar -> 2008 Jun: Trackpad MultiTouch, speaker identification with sndpeek, keystroke dynamics in GDM, application control with HDAPS.

2007 Sep -> 2008 Mar: Wireless site surveys with HDAPS, add keystroke dynamics to applications, automated verbal conversation annotations with CMU Sphinx.

2007 May -> 2007 Sep: Vector space LDAP searches, 404 metaphone matching, interior building maps, precipitation proximity alerts.

2007 Feb -> 2007 May: Web link visualizations, custom GD charts, CAIDA's plot-latlong cartographics, LDAP search part 1&2.

2006 Nov -> 2007 Feb: Ghosd and Perl, tone control, email sound notifier, HDAPS shake reset, chord system status.

2006 Jan -> 2006 Nov: Knock control, real time visual effects, Photo and movie mosaics, xdmx how-to