Interests and Expertise

• Technology for Education and Learning
• Programming Languages for Kids
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• "Appropriate Technology" for developing nations
• Tangible User Interfaces
• Electronic, Embedded Software, Product, and Industrial Design
• Symbolic Computation and Domain-Specific Language Design
• History of Computation

My Resume

• In RTF format (includes list of publications)

My masters thesis work

• Journal paper (PDF): From turtles to Tangible Programming Bricks: explorations in physical language design
• Tangible Programming Bricks: An approach to making programming accessible to everyone
• Video demonstration: Building a bicycle "speedometer" with just five bricks:

Interactive Exhibit Technology

• The metaField: a room-sized interactive space (in collaboration with artist Bill Keays)

Some work from a few years ago

• 3D String Graphs

What I'm up to these days

(This section is a bit out-of-date)

• Designing and providing project leadership for an interactive exhibit commemorating the 35th anniversary of the world's first customer-programmable microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 2006. See the 4004 history project web site for more information.
• Working with Design that Matters on an inexpensive microfilm projector for a literacy program in Mali. Researching inexpensive regulator/pump for IV rehydration.
• Playing bass guitar in Rakiya, an "Electric Gypsy" Balkan folk dance band.
• Working with Fred Martin on Handy Cricket accessories. Next on the agenda: a real-time clock and data logger.
• Allowing my other web site tuva.us to languish (-:).