#AcademicRunPlaylist - 11/15/24

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Ben Waber
November 15, 2024

My large golden-ish dog and my medium black dog looking down a suburban street at twilight on a clear day. The full moon is just peaking over some trees, and well manicured lawns and shrubs dot both sides of the street

It was a hectic end to a hectic week, but I had a nice time taking these guys for a walk to take a break and throughout the day I was able to listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Maria Roche on using GitHub data to investigate startup open sourcing activity before funding rounds at the Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation (WEFI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYyqf5enrRo

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Jeffrey Prince on international survey measurements of data privacy preferences at PLAMADISO – Platforms, Markets, and the Digital Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbl2F_Gsksk

Next was an intriguing talk by Jorge Guzman on entrepreneurial migration (with frequent references to Anmol Madan!) at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDJr-2AQCFk

Next was a nice talk by Bo Bian on whether US CEO incentives influenced China's technological advancement at WEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqF65Ddwr8

Next was a compelling talk by Nils Napp on creating bio-inspired robotic construction systems at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM0zSywvGMI

Next was an excellent talk by Camille Hebert on the impact of learning from errors in entrepreneurship at WEFI. Using surveys of entrepreneur beliefs about their future prospects, Hebert convincingly demonstrates that entrepreneurs do learn from failure by making more accurate predictions after they make errors, with obvious implications for business performance. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uczclz2h3g

Last was a whole slate of talks from the 2024 ACM UIST Conference:

Akifumi Takahashi (making a smartwatch that can move your fingers) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIQDCpogcc

Paul Streli (touch and text input for mixed reality) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRqBXJkp_sQ

Wanli Qian and Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao (text-to-shape displays using LLMs, with a live remote demo!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6TmpapPAKg

Lei Zhang (creating 3D layouts w/generative AI in VR) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng1Hm1_LP9k

Daniel Campos Zamora (mobile 3D printer for environment-scale design and fabrication, sacrificing his carpet and possibly his marriage for the project!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqB3A5zkFoM

Xiaolong Li (fabrication of large-scale interactive objects) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDzcsnKKPWA

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran (wrist-worn sensor for on-skin proprioceptive gestures) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmGhb6-ySo

Yuhao Zhu (computational trichromacy reconstruction) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVt3sZtmRQY

Gaurav Jain (street cameras for blind pedestrian navigation) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkKY-R42zs

Yu Jiang (shape-changing textiles with machine embroidery) - highly recommend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcra90Qyrpo

Andy K. (power-over-skin) - highly recommend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_r1tUMIFwU

Yue Jiang (predicting personalized scanpaths) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlQzwuaSTaU

Hyun A Seo (enhancing physical object interaction in VR) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIXc-GUvLs