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2011
CBS News Sunday Morning Neural Phone is featured as part of the cover story on The next step in bionics aired on CBS, October 2011 
2011 papers on smartphone sensing published in UbiComp, Pervasive, ICDM and Pervasive Health. 
I'm Technical Program Co-Chair of the 10th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)
Our work on the Neural Phone is featured in the NYTimes Magazine article on The Cyborg in us all, [pdf] [demo] September 2011
UbiComp 2011 Our paper on Community Similarity Networks (CSN) was nominated for best paper award, September 2011
I finished my 9th marathon (one more to go then I'm done), May 2011
Interview on the IT conversation network about smartphone sensing, January 20112010
The eyes have it, [pdf] Communications of ACM, December 2010
Tanzeem Choudhury develops cellphone apps to track our health, EarthSky, November 2010
Diane Cook
(WSU), Shwetak Patel (UW), Roy Want (Intel Labs) and I are organizing an NSF
Sponsored Workshop on Pervasive Computing at Scale, Seattle,
January 27-28, 2011
Nokia toys with context-aware smartphone settings switch, Jigsaw provides better context for apps like this, Engadget, November 2010
Smartphone
app monitors your every move, New
Scientist, November
2010
2010 papers on
mobile phone sensing published in UbiComp, Pervasive, ACM MobiSys, ACM
SenSys and AAAI
Jie
Liu (MSR) and I organized a workshop on
Sensing for App Phones (PhoneSense)
collocated with ACM SenSys, Zurich, November 2, 2o1o
The
NeuroPhone, The Atlantic, September 2010
NSF
EAGER grant on "Brain-Mobile Interfaces: Exploratory Research into the
Development of Networked NeuroPhones"
with Tanzeem
Choudhury and Rajeev
Raizada, September 2010
Share
Information to Boost Cellphone Performance, New
Scientist, June 2010
EyePhone:
New Cellphone Software Tracks Users' Eye Movements For Control,
Popular Science, May
2010
Eye
Tracking for Mobile Control, MIT
Technology Review, May
2010
Mobile
Phone Mind Control, MIT
Technology Review, April
2010
2009
Cell
Phones that Learn the Sounds of Your Life, July
2009
Cell
Phones that Listen and Learn, June
2009