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Underground mallOriginally uploaded by jmissig.

This mall was under the Hyatt where most of the Wednesday-night parties were. Too bad there was that fire alarm…

Tuesday I found out that no one from Carnegie Mellon was selected as a finalist in CHI’s Student Design Competition. Based upon what my advisors have told me, there is no single set of criteria with which the entries are judged. This makes it very difficult to know exactly what to do to win. We […]

Peter Saint-Andre says it best:

Peter Millard, my friend and a longtime contributor to the Jabber community, died last night. Peter fought a tough battle with cancer last year and seemed to have won. Suddenly, in the last few weeks, he faced a new battle with complications from his cancer therapy; he fought long and hard […]

Yesterday I attended the Security papers session, which focused on phishing attacks and encrypting email. The overall feel seemed to be that even with browser vendor buy-in, we’re nowhere near having the phishing problem solved. We don’t even have the right ideas for a UI yet.
It was nice to see that someone from Mozilla/Firefox was […]

Balance Pass group photoOriginally uploaded by jmissig.

Following up my earlier post, here’s a group photo of us!

So apparently over the weekend it was decided that the judging session for the Student Design Competition would be from 4:30 to 6:30. Aditya was sent the email, but he hadn’t checked his email, so we didn’t know until we talked to other Carnegie Mellon students. Fortunately we found out and were able to verify […]

The Windows of the Palais des CongrèsOriginally uploaded by jmissig.

I’ll probably be posting interesting things here. Be sure to check the chi2006 tag on flickr if you like my photos.