Exeter, Great Britain
Areas of Expertise:
- Objective-C
- iPhone
- Perl
- Astronomy
- Sensors
- Arduino
- consulting
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Alasdair blogs at:
http://www.dailyack.com/
September 02 2010
So this weekend I'm attending Science Online London at the British Library. A two day conference aimed at exploring how the web is changing the way we conduct, communicate, share, and evaluate research. Tonight I managed to just miss out on the pre-conference pub crawl. My trained pulling into London… read moreO'Reilly iPhone Sensors Masterclass
August 31 2010
While I was in the States last month, in-between attending OSCON in Portland, SciFoo in Mountain View and my flying visit to New York, I headed up to Spreckles Theatre in Rohnert Park, CA, to film an O'Reilly Masterclass in "Making use of iPhone and iPad Location Sensors." Demo'ing the… read moreJuly 30 2010
I'm currently on my way to the Googleplex for this year's Science Foo Camp (SciFoo). Based on the original O'Reilly Foo Camp unconference model, there's no agenda until the first evening when the attendees collectively create one, SciFoo is a gathering of "leading scientists, technologists, writers and other thought-leaders" for a… read moreJuly 26 2010
For those of you who didn't get the chance to go to O'Reilly's OSCON I'll be giving my talk on Face Detection on the iPhone again at the online iPhone iPad Summit run by Environments for Humans. It's an all-new, all-day online conference, on the 25th of August running from… read moreJuly 25 2010
While I was at OSCON last week I was interviewed by Mac Slocum for the O'Reilly Media YouTube channel about my talk on Face Detection for the iPhone, augmented reality and mobile sensors in general. To be honest we actually covered the best material after the camera stopped rolling, as… read moreJuly 25 2010
I spent last week at the O'Reilly Media OSCON conference where I was talking about using the OpenCV library to do face detection on the iPhone using Haar classifiers. The talk walked you through the cross-compiling and building a static distribution of the library that you can link to your… read moreJinx on Solar Sail missons finally broken?
June 16 2010
Yesterday the Japanese successfully launched three Venus-bound spacecraft: the Akatsuki Venus orbiter, the IKAROS solar sail, and a University-built UNITEC-1 mini-satellite.In doing so it broke one of the longest running jinxes in spaceflight, it managed to sucessfully put a solar sail spacecraft in orbit. The last time this happened was… read moreJune 01 2010
aallan posted a photo: My Apple iPad and Bluetooth keyboard along with a TwelveSouth BookArc. read moreMay 25 2010
Simple and extensible web server for Arduino and Ethernet Shield read moreApril 19 2010
BWToolkit is an Interface Builder plugin that contains commonly used UI elements and other objects designed to simplify Mac development. read moreMultimedia
Webcast: An introduction to building mapping applications for the iPhone and iPad
April 28, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPhone has quickly become one of the primary interface devices for geographically tagged data, and underlying geo-location on the iPhone and iPad devices is the Core Location framework. The framework...
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