Alison Chaiken's Web Page

Old technical content, kind of chronologically:

2011

• My experiments with immersive reading of PDF files using totem and festival including SuperHappyDevHouse lightning talk slides
• Rikki Kite, publisher of Linux Pro magazine, interviewed me
• my public bookmarks on del.icio.us

2010

• Summary of one year's work on the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) control systems at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Notes from and presentation about LinuxCon 2010
• "Linux, Android and Open Source in the Mobile Environment," presentation to PenLUG and SVLUG in February 2010

2009

• ResumeParser, an XSLT- and Java-based routine that transforms an XML biographical dataset into an XHTML format
• Image Section Generator, a Matlab GUI-based image analysis package that allows facilitates comparison of optical, electron and scanned-probe microscope images via easy and intuitive linescan extraction

2008

• Notes from 2008 Open Mobile Summit
• Matlab-controlled in-vacuum optical-microscope continuous-process web inspection system (excerpt from report to US Display Consortium);
  source code for microscope zoom/focus motor control, image acquisition and analysis program
• my Instructable called "Make your own bite-valve hydration system"
• about ubiquitous, pervasive computing

Candle-lit, stone-tooled prehistory

• about flexible displays and printed electronics
• Wikipedia articles I have originated
• Notes from the excellent 19th Annual New England Biolabs Molecular Biology Summer Workshop
• a few DNA immobilization protocols I wrote
• about biomechanics and DNA melting
• about structural and electronic properties of indium selenide thin films
• about magnetism, giant magnetoresistance and exchange coupling
• about x-ray absorption and fluorescence at SSRL and ALS
• about cubic and hexagonal boron nitride thin films
• about anisotropic superconductivity in BiSrCaCuO and C₄KHg
• about superconducting graphite intercalation compounds

Mission Peak hiking page

Other cool non-technical stuff

Podcasts are my most valued source of information.

For the insatiably curious, my Hacker Dojo profile and answers to personal FAQs.

Since I started using an N900 as my primary phone, I've been uploading my activities to HeiaHeia with eCoach rather than with MyMaps with MyTracks.

My Flickr feed, remarkably enough featuring mostly cycling and hacking photos.

"Take Your Tarantula to Work Day 1998" photo.

alison@exerciseforthereader.org (Alison Chaiken)