Projects

Engineering work spanning environmental sensing hardware, civic media infrastructure, and computational language systems.

Selected work

Project index

Exploring Software Defined Radio Software defined radio opens the full broadcast spectrum to journalists, educators, and citizen scientists, well beyond the few bands consumer equipment covers. 11 · Winter 2018 · Academic Creative Co-author A writing tool for the first draft: it suggests words and phrases as you type to keep the draft moving, without writing it for you. 12 · 2018 · Academic Visual Recipes Cooking instructions are usually written as narrative prose, which reads well and works badly at the stove. This asked what a recipe should look like if using it came first. 13 · Fall 2019 · Academic NATO in Chicago For the 2012 NATO summit, Knight Lab collected news coverage and tweets and built two applications comparing how the same event was discussed in different places. 14 · 2012 · Academic City Hall Monitor A searchable index of Chicago City Council records, built so an investigator can find the documents worth reading. 15 · 2015–2016 · Academic Knight Lab Tools Internal tools and services built for Knight Lab — deployment and provisioning, content extraction, hashtag recommendation, and Twitter curation. 16 · 2012–2025 · Academic The News Context Project An open-source toolkit for assembling the context around a news article — related discussion, circulating quotations, and what the people named in it are saying elsewhere. 17 · 2015 · Academic The Local Angle Surfacing national stories with local significance by linking articles to the places behind the people and organizations in them. 18 · 2012 · Academic Listening Post Following user sentiment and engagement with brands and products on social channels, and surfacing the user stories worth acting on. 19 · 2009 · Academic Buzz.com An AT&T-funded news aggregator that had 3D virtual characters perform blog stories aloud. I worked on the web application. 20 · 2007–2008 · Academic Slimformation A browser extension that measured what you read: time by content category, the sources behind it, and whether you met the goals you set. 21 · 2013 · Academic CareerOverview.com A career and college-information site generated from data sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, built at the InfoLab before large language models. 22 · 2010 · Industry Tie-O-Matic A computational model of tie selection, built from color theory and then corrected against four hundred human choices. 23 · Winter 2007 · Academic Smart Kitchen Central System An object-oriented design for a kitchen controller over grocery, recipe, and appliance subsystems, from one use case down to a class model. 24 · Winter 2005 · Academic