February 2007 - Research, Technology, and Teamwork blog by Susie Wee

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It's easier to do a Ph.D. thesis the second time around!

Let's start with three little stories: #1: Today I gave a guest lecture in a Stanford graduate course on the first research topic I worked on after grad school as a young researcher at HP Labs ( compressed domain video processing and transcoding ). As...

Published 02-27-2007 7:11 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: career tips, research
A glimpse of Video 2.0

These posts [ 0 , 1 , 2 ] link to a very thought-provoking YouTube video that has been spreading like wildfire this month. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us by Professor Michael Wesch Asst Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University...

Published 02-21-2007 8:00 PM by susie.wee

Filed under: technology, experience
Managing research = Aligning passions

Managing research sounds like an oxymoron. How do you manage creativity? How do you manage the creativity of N researchers, where N=1,10,100,...? How do you manage people so that their total output is not just the sum of the individual contributions,...

Published 02-19-2007 10:39 PM by susie.wee

Filed under: management, career tips, teamwork, research
The goal of industrial research

What is the goal of research? What is the goal of industrial research? There is no single agreed upon answer to these questions, but I'll share how I think about them. The goal of research is to identify important hard problems and find solutions that...

Published 02-16-2007 2:34 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: career tips, research
Aliens invade 3GSM Barcelona

In an earlier post I said that a group of creative researchers in my team are demo-ing a Mediascapes game at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona. The researchers designed the game themselves using their Mediascapes authoring toolkit. Here is a description of the game...

Published 02-14-2007 8:28 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: technology, experience, research
HP Labs Mediascapes at 3GSM

Mediascapes is an HP Labs research project that makes it easy to author and play context-aware multimedia experiences . Simply put, a Mediascape plays multimedia content (image, audio, or video) on a mobile device based on context triggers. A trigger...

Published 02-12-2007 4:14 PM by susie.wee

Filed under: technology, experience, research
Coupling experience & technology

So you may have wondered why I wrote the post I'm gonna be a gamer again! I wrote it because it showcases an important theme for research and technology development -- the close coupling between experience and technology. The technology used for today...

Published 02-10-2007 1:09 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: technology, experience, research
I'm gonna be a gamer again!

When I was a kid, I loved to play games at the arcade. Then I went to college and grad school for 10 years and got too busy to play. When I finally had a chance to play again, gaming technology had advanced and I couldn't figure out how to use the darn...

Published 02-10-2007 12:35 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: technology, experience
More on Permission Based Innovation

Phil McKinney has a great post on Permission Based Innovation , so please take a minute to read it over. From my perspective as a manager, all I can say is that he is right on with all his points. I have a few additional points: The creativity of a team...

Published 02-07-2007 7:22 PM by susie.wee

Filed under: management, career tips, teamwork
The Give-and-Go

I attended a number of HP technical strategy meetings last month. I've been at HP for over 10 years, so I've had the opportunity to meet and work with many interesting people from different parts of the company and in different job functions spanning...

Published 02-06-2007 3:15 AM by susie.wee

Filed under: career tips, teamwork

February 2007 - Research, Technology, and Teamwork blog by Susie Wee

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It's easier to do a Ph.D. thesis the second time around!

A glimpse of Video 2.0

Managing research = Aligning passions

The goal of industrial research

Aliens invade 3GSM Barcelona

HP Labs Mediascapes at 3GSM

Coupling experience & technology

I'm gonna be a gamer again!

More on Permission Based Innovation

The Give-and-Go