• Polygon Article: History of Kinect

• Interview
• Published 2020

In 2019 I was interviewed for a Polygon article about the history of Kinect, Microsoft's natural user input accessory for the Xbox 360. As the article describes, Kinect was an ambitious, innovative, and challenging p...

• Principles of Personal Finance

• Lecture
• Presented 2019

This lecture introduces the very basics of personal finance. The intended audience is folks who are just starting out in their career and want to tackle the time sensitive process of securing their financial future. ...

• Principles of Software Emulation

• Lecture
• Presented 2018

Learn the basics of software emulation through this visually guided tour. We'll cover both the theory and practice of building an emulator, and even touch on a few advanced topics. If you're interested in learning m...

• Principles of Color Theory

• Lecture
• Presented 2017

A brisk introduction to digital color theory. This lecture complements my Principles of Video Compression lecture, by delving deeper into the fundamental concepts of color perception and storage.

• Principles of Video Compression

• Lecture
• Presented 2016

This lecture provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of video compression. It covers the theory and practice of the process and takes a detailed tour through the architecture of a functioning video codec. ...

• Simple Geometric Image Denoising

• Lecture
• Presented 2015

While developing Final Stage I created a basic image denoiser that was surprisingly effective given its simplicity. Now, there's a lot of research in this area, and several robust solutions are available that leverage...

• Fast Scene Traversal Using Octrees

• Lecture
• Presented 2014

Octrees are one of my favorite spatial data structures because of their simplicity and efficiency — they're easy to understand and visualize, and can significantly improve the performance of a task. The Final St...

• The Emergence of Cloud Gaming

• Panel
• Presented 2013

I spoke as a member of an expert panel for The Emergence of Cloud Gaming and the Push Towards Mass Adoption at the 2013 Samsung Developer's Conference in San Francisco. This talk covered several topics in clo...

• engadget Interview: everyAir

• Interview
• Published 2010

In 2010 I was interviewed about my work on everyAir, for a segment called "15 Minutes of Fame" for the popular gaming news website engadget. We covered the motivations for the product, its unique features, and a bit ...

• An Introduction to HTML5

• Lecture
• Presented 2010

This was an introductory lecture that I gave in mid 2010 on the basics of HTML5 and related technologies. The target audience was technologists with basic web familiarity. Although antiquated at this point, this talk...

• Dynamic Coverage Anti-aliasing

• Lecture
• Completed 2010

Anti-aliasing is an important technique used to reduce the appearance of jagged edges in raster based graphical systems. Traditionally, the cost of using anti-aliasing is significant, and usually scales with resoluti...

• P.264 Video Compression

• Technical Paper
• Published 2010

P.264 is a custom video codec I created for my everyAir project. P264 was designed to provide a robust real-time streaming video solution for mobile devices. See the download link below for a full-text copy of the pap...