It's not true, but...

The Washington Post prematurely posts its obituary/retirement package for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist It made me pause for a moment to think that, for some people, the line between retirement and death is just a slash.

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I am currently a Master’s candidate in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, conducting research in physical computing, ambient informatics, ubiquitous computing in urban environments, social media, and pervasive gaming.

email: adam [at] the name of this website

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Urban Computing

Sneaker Seed update

Here's my presentation for Urban Computing last week, giving an update on the Sneaker Seed project, outlining the problems I've had with the different router firmware, and suggesting using an Arduino + (the forthcoming) Matchport as an alternative solution.... (more)

Sneaker Seed

Here's my project proposal for Urban Computing: One of the themes that I've been interested in is the shift from matter to bits disrupting the necessity of urban density. So I started thinking about what that density could provide that... (more)

Street: Market

My responses to Adam Greenfield's market essay: One of the major benefits of a market (as opposed to more dispersed merchants) is the immediacy of comparison shopping - I can weigh not only prices from different merchants, but different products... (more)

Networked Objects

Social Bomb concept

I've been brainstorming with Mike and Scott about ideas for our Networked objects final, and after consulting with Tom today, we're definitely honing in on building some kind of game interface. Here's my description of our idea, which is totally... (more)

Network Effects

Social Bomb concept

I've been brainstorming with Mike and Scott about ideas for our Networked objects final, and after consulting with Tom today, we're definitely honing in on building some kind of game interface. Here's my description of our idea, which is totally... (more)

CookieNet followup

Here are the results of CookieNet, which I deployed Wednesday afternoon to an unsuspecting ITP. Implementation: The deployed version of CookieNet worked as described in the initial project outline, with four cookies to a parcel and three parcels plus on... (more)

CookieNet

For our Network Effects midterm, we have to design and implement a network. Here's my proposal for CookieNet, which will disseminate cookies throughout ITP. Cookies will be packaged four in a bundle, with four bundles plus one single cookie in... (more)

Every Bit You Make

Sneaker Seed update

Here's my presentation for Urban Computing last week, giving an update on the Sneaker Seed project, outlining the problems I've had with the different router firmware, and suggesting using an Arduino + (the forthcoming) Matchport as an alternative solution.... (more)

Identity & Privacy in a Networked Culture

New technology of any sort forces us as a culture to reexamine our assumptions about ourselves and our world. Sometimes those assumptions morph easily between technologies and media, providing a natural transition as the new medium takes its place in... (more)

Final Project: Entropy

I'm planning on working with Eric on researching, measuring, and representing the transfer of energy from sources (like coal, wind, and solar power) to data products (like a single email or an hour of World of Warcraft). We think we're... (more)

all of my ITP work

all of my ITP work

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