Situational Awareness is all the rage. Its being driven by advances in both display technologies and big data/predictive analytics/data science, etc. My team and I built this customer demonstration at HP Labs showing how we can use NFC based authentication to display and redact information from a situational awareness environment based on knowledge of the […]
Media
Swindon Viewpoint
Swindon Viewpoint is Swindon and Britain’s original community media service with a unique history and special place in Britain’s media story. Its been called the ultimate digital diary of local life and culture. In 2007 we took a leap and began moving the vast collection online. I developed an online presence around the Drupal content management system […]
Popeye and Olive Oil
In case there was any doubt where my interest with the intersection of media and technology originates from, here is an early film that my Dad recently dug up. He made it with me back in 1981 at the film workshop he ran at the time. I still remember being told off for pressing the […]
SE3D – Animation in the Cloud
In 2004 I was fortunate to work the community engagement aspects of this ambitious showcase collaboration project at HP Labs. We put together a community of 3D animators, and enabled them to use a flexible, on-demand, datacentre scale cloud rendering service from the comfort of their own home. This was something that had never been […]
Digital Video Workflow for the Encounters Film Festival
In 2005 HP Labs had formed a great relationship with the Bristol Encounters Film Festival. They approaches us to help re-imagine their video library for an upcoming event. Imagine a room full of tapes on shelves where festival delegates could take a stack of tapes to view on an old style VHS player. Whilst this […]
Personalised Video Creation Service
In 2005 there were no personalised online videos of the kind you see on facebook today. With hindsight, you might say the world was a richer place for it. At HP Labs we were looking at ways to promote opportunities for the cloud based utility rendering service we had built previously. A small team of […]