Sponsored Research
Pam Miller is the Director of the Office of Sponsored Research. This group includes her and an incomplete list of faculty/staff working on grants.
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The SF Chronicle wrote a story about my mobile phone programming course that uses Google’s App Inventor for Android. Below are the students at USF’s CS night (click the pic to see article).
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Here’s an example more about Jing is a screen capture tool , posted with vodpod Jing is free and easily installed. When its running, a little sun appears in the top right of your screen. You can click it to get a capture widget up, and then easi...
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My friend Paul Gestwicki from Ball State University sent me a link describing a killer app. for the mobile phone. The app. mashes GPS and Map annotation to give the user an augmented experience of the objects around him. Here’s a clip from one of...
Blog post by David Wolber
Topics: augmented reality, android, web 2.0, mobilizy, mobile
Published on Jun 30, 2009
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Google is giving my class at USF 20 Android smart phones, with a goal of exploring the use of a new visual programming language tentatively called App Inventor for Android. The language (tool) is still restricted to Google’s trusted user program ...
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My Introduction to CS class at USF was featured at a Google User Group Meeting. Freshmen Aaron Draczynski and Matt Cline demonstrated the ‘Bookface’ social network software they created as a class project using Python and Google’s App Engine: The...
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One way to push for equality is through economic and political pressure, as in the divestment movement of South Africa. One part of this will be to make public the people behind the YES ON 8 movement. This means exposing who directly funded it, w...
Blog post by David Wolber
Topics: campaigns, prop8, discrimination, politics
Published on Nov 07, 2008
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Wolber and Brooks have led a team of CS students in this service-learning project
Project references David Wolber
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Yesterday’s California supreme court ruling on gay marriage was a joyous event and should be celebrated with utter abandon. For some reason the image of Harvey Milk and his infectious smile have been floating around in my head since I heard the n...
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Mildred Loving is a black woman who married a white man and almost went to prison for it. Not in 1930. In 1967! She gave a statement last year on the 40th anniversary of her and her husband’s miscegenation case. She eloquently draws the parallel...
Blog post by David Wolber
Topics: racism, marriage, gay marriage, gay, politics
Published on May 16, 2008
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Negotiators have agreed on a farm bill, the antiquated one that pays subsidies to rich farmers and will almost certainly add to the world’s rapidly deteriorating hunger crisis. Pelosi and friends are arguing to limit subsidies to those poor folk ...