Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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30 EOH 2009 detecting changes in capacitance on a wire grid. Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: College, General Public “...An Illinois based startup OneLlama, has aggregated many... [radio] stations into a single hub called Radio OneLlama, allowing users to quickly identify the stations that best MyCampus fit their tastes.” - TechCrunch. MacWarriors - ACM com, September 2008. Stop by Navigating a campus can be a tricky thing, especially if it is new. our booth and get a free Radio OneLlama t-shirt! The iPhone platform is quickly Location: Atrium becoming a more widely used and exciting platform. MyCam- This exhibit is suitable for: Midpus is designed so that you can dle School, High School, College, General Public better understand the campus you spend your time on, and so provides you information from RTS Racer the most convenient source: Gamebuilders your pocket. Race through an open world Location: Atrium environment running over your This exhibit is suitable for: All enemies with a convoy of vehicles at your side. Location: Atrium (Video Wall) NewsLight This exhibit is suitable for: GenSIGWin Many students dislike the inabili- eral Public ty to check newsgroups from any computer. NewsLight is an inSpatially Augmented Realbrowser newgroup reader, made ity using Microsoft’s new SilverSIGGRAPH Light, allowing anyone from any What does it look like for an computer to check newsgroups object to come to life? Spatially whenever they want. augmented reality uses projecLocation: Atrium tors to transform everyday obThis exhibit is suitable for: All jects into virtual experiences. It’s recovery. It is designed to be booted either from across a network or from removable media. Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: College, General Public Radio OneLlama The Mechanical Eye SIGBot Now Showing! “The Mechanical Eye” -- the camera that watches you while you move! Using two cameras, it processes video input to differentiate objects from their background and follows them. It also uses depth perception to generate 3D video, so you can watch the cameras watch you IN 3D! (just in case). Location: 1214 This exhibit is suitable for: General Public Moonbean SIGGRAPH This 3D-animated short film follows our characters through the Solar System in a showcase of modern animation and other computer graphics techniques. The project sums up 7 months of effort from a mixed group of programmers, artists, and musicians in a collaboration characteristic of the film industry. Whether you are interested in film-making technology or a good story, you won’t want to miss “Moonbean”. Location: 1304 This exhibit is suitable for: All Gamebuilders Impasto the briefcase salesman is on a mission. Are you a good enough salesman to rescue the president? Featuring a unique whiteboard-based style and exMulti-Touch Surface cessive explosions. SIGArch Location: Atrium SIGArch is implementing a capacitive multi-touch surface. It This exhibit is suitable for: Gendetects more than one touch by eral Public Overly Professional the closest thing to magic you’ll see all day. Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All Swarming Cars SIGBot Come see our swarm of four independently thinking cars! As a mass, they can follow a moving target, very similar to a school of fish. Watch as they act in
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