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by jasonhong 7y ago
Part of the reason it typically takes 5-6 years to complete a PhD (in computer science at least) is because it takes a long time to learn the methods, the skills, and the large body of past work, as well as just becoming a member of the res
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by jasonhong 7y ago
I recently showed some videos of Soli in the HCI class I teach. Students immediately hit upon the two major issues I wanted to discuss (I was pretty proud!). The first is learnability. A big problem with gestures is that there is no clear a
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by jasonhong 7y ago
It's answered in the linked abstract: "...derived from veterinary euthanized individuals following motor vehicle collisions in Tasmania, Australia"
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by jasonhong 7y ago
- Maxed out insurance (home, car) - Set aside a large amount for taxes, invested it in US Treasury Bond (get an estimate of your taxes from an accountant) - Got an accountant - Read up on QSBS (this can save you a lot of money if you got st
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by jasonhong 7y ago
There were 3 research papers that came out around 2012 (almost simultaneously) that looked at using accelerometers to infer what people were typing. Here is one of them, I don't recall the other two. https://dl.acm.org/
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by jasonhong 7y ago
Here is some past work from our research group on a machine learning classifier to identify apps for kids. http://www.cmuchimps.org/publications/identifying_and_analyz... The title, app description, screenshots, and ic
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by jasonhong 8y ago
We named our company after Wombats ( https://www.wombatsecurity.com/ ). We always got fun responses from customers in Australia, most of them loving it. Company was also acquired a few months ago, and I'm using some of t
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by jasonhong 8y ago
Our research group also had a similar idea to this back in 2006, though looking at laptops (since this was before smartphones really took off). This was also before MAC randomization, as many other posters have pointed out. Here's our
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by jasonhong 8y ago
I'd say it's a combination of several factors, including: - The designers / developers thinking that they are typical users, and that they know how things work ("You are not the user" is the phrase we repeat a lot h
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by jasonhong 8y ago
(Yeah, slow response on my side, end of semester here) Yes, you're right that it does suggest a certain kind of corporate culture and mindset. A common big challenge with UX is educating the rest of your company about best practices, a
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by jasonhong 8y ago
Getting a PhD would require doing a lot of scientific research, but it sounds to me that you may be more interested in doing product innovation. Having said that, I know folks with master's degrees and PhD degrees who are great UX and
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by jasonhong 8y ago
(For background, I'm a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute) For best books, it depends on if you want to understand users or do implementation. But generally, I'd highly recommend Don
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by jasonhong 8y ago
Folks here may be interested in knowing that our team has been working with many others on building out a Privacy-Enhanced Android, which seeks to offer new programming models, new isolation mechanisms, and new user interfaces to help impro
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by jasonhong 8y ago
Just FYI, might be interested in Ted Nelson's old idea of StretchText. It was never really implemented, to the best of my knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText
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by jasonhong 8y ago
Following up on my own comment, a lot of folks are saying, don't get a financial advisor. My wife and I discussed this quite a bit, and I was also lucky to be able to ask a lot of questions to my brother, who previously did a lot of wo
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by jasonhong 8y ago
I recently went through a major liquidity event myself a few months ago (Wombat Security Technologies). Here are some things my wife and I have done: - Get a financial advisor. Make sure that they have fiduciary responsibility, that their j
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by jasonhong 8y ago
There indeed is a data set for this purpose. The data is drawn from the VizWiz app, which came out in 2010. http://vizwiz.org/data/
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by jasonhong 8y ago
FYI, we recently published a study of how people use their Alexa, based on interviews with 7 families and an analysis of log data from 75 participants. Here's a link to the paper (PDF): http://www.cmuchimps.org/uploads&
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by jasonhong 9y ago
I can understand people's criticisms that this analysis came from Facebook itself. I'd like to point out that one of the authors (Moira Burke) was a PhD student in our department at Carnegie Mellon University (the Human Computer I
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Well, if you honestly believe that Carnegie Mellon University is the same as the NFL as a non-profit, especially given our long track record of education and research, there really isn't anything I can say to convince you. So let'
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by jasonhong 9y ago
No, but there is a Master's of Software Management (MSM) there that might fit your needs. http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/academics/software-managem... Some of the differences are that the Master's of
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by jasonhong 9y ago
I know that some public universities have this conflict, in terms of wanting to serve their mission of helping in-state students, but also needing more money to do so (ie foreign students can never be in-state, so they always pay full tuiti
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Please see my comment above about why we're not doing MOOCs at CMU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357548
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Looking over your program at Utrecht, it feels like the Business Informatics program is more geared towards general business processes with respect to technologies. The closest course at Utrecht to what we're envision with the Master&#
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Good points, it turns out that $65k is lower than many of our other master's programs. We also ran through the numbers and that tuition x #students doesn't cover much more than our basic costs. We are a non-profit after all, and o
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Good question, and it's a personal decision as to what a person believes their best path is. Speaking as someone who has co-founded a successful company (Wombat Security Technologies, over a thousand customers for our security training
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Good question, it really depends on what you want to do in your career. If you search for "CMU CS Master's", you will end up here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/masters-programs . We have 26 options for master&#x27
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Not having an undergrad degree in CS would not disqualify you. We are looking primarily for people with strong tech skills, for several reasons. When we talked to companies and alums of our other programs who are now product managers, they
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Currently no scholarship options. This is something we will revisit as the program gets larger. We do have a staff member who can assist with financial aid. Given current projections of salary for product managers and likely high placement
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by jasonhong 9y ago
Thanks, much appreciated!

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