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| My email is jooseeph@ccs.rrhuul.ac.uk (but remove repetitions (by which I mean remove the second one of repeated letters (nested brackets are cool, but try not to also put a smiley in, because then it will just look odd ;)))). I'm very aware that this is very Web 1.0 style homepage. It's very long, and even has in-page links for contents, on the other hand it gives a good overview of me and my work without being spread over a lot of tiny pages.ContentsEngagementI'm a big believer in such things as open source, open data, and open access . I'm also a big believer in asking questions, without worrying that people might find them silly. Two of the places where I ask silly questions are my Twitter feed, and various Stack Exchange sites, both of which I highly recommend.TeachingStudents on the Summer School for Access course please see the course web pages. Students on either my 2nd Year Algorithms course, or my postgrad People and Technology course, everything is on Moodle.:) For information about the Postgraduate tutor prize I won in 2008/2009 for teaching Health and Social Care students, you can see the reports here. For information about the Team teaching prize that Doug Cowie, Fionn Murtaugh, and I won in 2009/2010 for our work in the English Department, you can see the reports at LINK REMOVED DUE TO BROKEN LINK *SAD*. Project TooManyCooksAs part of a ill-advised experiment in 2009, Doug Cowie and I ran a cute project that involved putting 10 budding novelists in a room for a week with some unusual bits of technology, it went surprisingly well and the students constantly amazed us with the results. There is a smatter of publicity on the project here,here, here, here, here, here, and here. The books they produced are really rather good... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MiscOccasionally I do particularly nerdy things. For example the right-hand-side graph below updates every half an hour to give the current size of my email : my excuse is that it was an exercise in learning python, bash scripting and IMAP.Interestingly, because I use a variation of GTDinbox to manage my time, there is a (rough) correlation between the graph and my stress levels. So if you're looking to rope me into some activity, it may be best to consult the graph ;) (The left hand side one is the six month version) Errata It has occurred to me that it's actually the derivative of the graph that correlates to my stress levels: flat regions are normal, downward slopes are good and upward slopes are bad. I put some details on how it's done on stack exchange a little while ago if people are particularly interested. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mat Layout AlgorithmOne of my recent fun things was discovering that you could lay Judo mats in cubic time with respect to the number of mats (I actually think it's quadratic time, but haven't had chance to write it up properly). You can have a look at the applet I built to test my algorithm: version1 or version2. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Speech Tools
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Publications
Works in processThe following are `works in progress': things that didn't make it into one conference or another, or technical reports waiting to be turned into papers.
Novels produced by TooManyCooks Project
The teapot serverSo this (there's a Wikipedia article) came to my attention a little while ago, and I thought it kind of sad that there didn't appear to be a system that demonstrated the correct use of the 418 error code. Using an old netbook, a tube of industrial sealant, several lines of python, and a teapot from a local charity shop - I put a demo together.  This is the shelf it lives on in my office (using the ethernet connection at the moment because its wireless reliability isn't great). You can test it if you like - the address is http://134.219.188.123/, and you can read the full story here The Domesday Project Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices provide the ability for many people with disabilities to make themselves understood. For the large proportion of AAC-users with an intellectual disability, it may well be the only such way. Estimates of user provision and numbers of AAC devices in use are both vague and lack detail, often as a result of the circumstances they were estimated in. This lack of data prevents researchers from answering fundamental questions like ``How many people per 1,000 are using electronic AAC?'', ``What proportion of AAC users have aids that have internet connectivity?'' and ``On average, how much money would fund a person's AAC use for 12 months?''. This causes a fundamental difficulty with the field at the research, governance and political levels. We seek a full listing that includes every AAC aid purchased in the UK so that we can built a dataset that allows us to answer fundamental research, policy, and prevalence questions on the landscape of AAC use within the UK. Our work constructed a dataset by making several hundred Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, which asked the set of public bodies to supply lists of every AAC device purchased since 2006 including make, model, and year of purchase. The Domesday Dataset is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ A full description and access to the dataset itself is on a subpage here |
