These are informal talks and notes on a wide range of work-in-progress and half-baked ideas. Expect wide variations in quality, from almost-publishable to text-deluge.
You may also be interested in my undergraduate portfolio website for my pre-2010 work.
| 2016-10 | SIGGRAPH Talk High Level Outline |
| 2015-12 | Tips for Giving Clear Talks (mirror) by Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian |
| 2015-12 | How to Write a (Systems) Paper (mirror) by Prof. Pat Hanrahan |
| 2019 | Advice To Graduate Students And Researchers by Prof. John Owens |
| 2018 | Design Thinking Bootleg Deck (mirror) by the Stanford d.school |
| 1996 | Technology and Courage (mirror) by Dr. Ivan Sutherland |
| 2013 | Prof. Brian Harvey's Last Lecture |
This paper presents a view of modern GNSS for automotive we developed at Swift Navigation. It surveys the "perfect storm" of developments that unlock lane-level high-integrity GNSS positioning, which enable confident lane-level decision making and maneouver planning for autonomous vehicles.
by Niels Joubert, Tyler GR Reid, Fergus Noble
Presents my overall thesis work on cinematography-first interaction with quadrotor cameras, enabling novices and experts alike to capture high quality video footage without manually pilotting a quadrotor.
Stanford Library Link (local pdf mirror)
Presents an end-to-end system that autonomously captures cinematic shots of people using a quadrotor camera, by drawing on visual composition principles.
by Niels Joubert*, Jane L. E*, Dan B Goldman, Floraine Berthouzoz, Mike Roberts, James A. Landay, and Pat Hanrahan. Appears on arXiv 2016
Demonstrates a tool to preplan and automously execute cinematic trajectories using quadrotor cameras.
by Niels Joubert*, Mike Roberts*, Anh Truong, Floraine Berthouzoz, and Pat Hanrahan. Appears in SIGGRAPH Asia 2015.
Presents a programming language and runtime system for performant and productive mesh-based simulation programming.
by Zach DeVito, Niels Joubert, Francisco Palocios, Stephen Oakley, Montserrat Medina, Mike Barrientos, Erich Elsen, Frank Ham, Alex Aiken, Karthic Duraisamy, Eric Darve, Juan Alonso, and Pat Hanrahan.
Presents a software distribution system we built at BruteSoft Inc. Demonstrates how to adapt the Bittorrent protocol with two important features for enterprise software distribution: (1) respect the asymmetric bandwidth of two-tier enterprise WAN/LAN environments, and (2) provide central management of the distributed torrent network.
by Niels Joubert
Investigates the Zync video sharing system we build at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Zync enables simultaneous, synchronous video consumption in Yahoo! messenger. We show how our system improves intimacy and personal connection between users.
by David Shamma, Marcello Bastrea-Forte, Niels Joubert and Yiming Liu.
Six giant fully-electric mutant vehicles autonomously roam the playa. One is a dancefloor. Another, a bar. A third, a chillspace. These fifteen thousand pound robots dock together to form the TechnoGecko: An animated, fire-breathing, interactively lit moving sculpture, the largest electric Mutant Vehicle ever to come to playa.
A Project by The DreamMakers.
Autonomy led by Niels Joubert.
An artisinal handcrafted small-batch microfestival. One day of adrenatline, one day of oxytocin. Held in stunning and difficult-to-access natural environments.
nimbus.wtf
Led by Niels Joubert
A Mobile Popup-Party-in-a-Box System, complete with a 3Kw soundsystem, a multi-source power system, and fully addressable RGB LED lighting. Groovebot appeared magically at the Trash Fence during Burning Man 2018, throwing impromptu popup DJ music dance parties.
Designed, Engineered, Fabricated and Produced by Niels Joubert. Music by Fergus Noble. Inspired by the 12v Music Manifesto.
A demonstration of the love you can create with a blender, a giant box of healthy ingredients, and a banging sound system :)
Lovingly run by Niels Joubert and Derek Chung
Dusty Connection brings Radical Intimacy to the Playa. A tearoom, inside which participants play a connection game based on the 36 Questions, designed to foster deep and meaningful personal connections between citizens of Black Rock City. Grown men were crying.
Here's our 36 Questions Booklet (pdf)
Co-founded by Niels Joubert and Fergus Noble
| 2018-07 | Dr. Electric's 12V Music Setup, inspired by Igor's 12V Music Manifesto |
| 2018-11 | An Incomplete Overview of Fire Effects |
| 2016-11 | Coyote Nose: Tales of the Early Desert Carnies of Burning Man |
| 2016-present | Accuracy Third: An Oral History of Black Rock City |
Your favorite exploration of the Beat Scene. Original Playlists Here. Spotify Playlist Here.The terrible reshaping of musical history by the walled garden that is Spotify continues to leave out many of the greatest tracks and artists. You will not find much of what was played on this station on Spotify. Death to Spotify.
| 2011-05-26 | Demo Tape |
| 2011-06-07 | Yellow Five Finals Takeover (playlist) |
| 2011-06-14 | Palo Alto City Council (playlist) |
| 2011-06-21 | Name: Kowalski. Occupation: Driver. (playlist) |
| 2011-06-30 | I'm So Happy And I'm Glad To Be With You. (playlist) |
| 2011-07-07 | Bassweight, Cut-n-Paste, DJ Genius, Melodic Genius, Beats-and-Breaks (playlist) |
| 2011-07-14 | Turn It Up Cause Here's The Beat (playlist) |
| 2011-07-21 | Wow A List (playlist) |
| 2011-08-25 | Amidst the Panic Guest Mix (playlist) |
| 2011-09-08 | Hear the Lyrics (playlist) |
| 2011-12-01 | Birthday Special (playlist) |
| 2012-01-13 | Farmer Flapjack Hiphop Kickoff (playlist) |
| 2012-04-10 | Pull Over! (playlist) |
| 2012-04-17 | Mike Spivak Guest Mix (playlist) |
| 2012-04-24 | I Always Listen To The KZSU Stanford (playlist) |
The ever-rotating Dungeons of Rap show. The brainchild of myself and Eric Schkufza. Original Playlists Here.
| 2011-05-28 | The Demo Tape |
| 2011-06-08 | I'm Here to see Becca Moody (playlist) |
| 2011-10-04 | Futurebeat Takeover with the greatest intro ever |
| 2011-11-10 | Scarface Buying Guns (playlist) |
| 2011-11-24 | Lupe Fiasco Thanksgiving Special (playlist) |
| 2011-12-08 | Rohit Nambiar Guest Mix (playlist) |
| 2012-04-17 | Stoned on Cold Medicine (playlist) |
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