Welcome to www.multigesture.net, the place where I publish my opinions, my interests, personal projects and multi-touch research related stuff.

Personal

Interests: Music, Sports, Photography, HCI/NUI, Infovis, Web Development, Programming and Emulation.
Current education:

1. Bachelor of Engineering
   (Algemene Operationele Technologie / General Operations) (June 2005)
   Hogeschool van Amsterdam
2. Master of Science
   (Grid Computing, Computational Science / Computer Science) (July 2008)
   The University of Amsterdam

Targets: Doing research in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Questions and comments about me, this site or articles can be send to:
E-mail (Dutch/English): laurence (dot) muller (at) gmail (dot) com

Projects

Code repositories (Open Source):

• Full list of projects on Google Code
• Full list of projects on Github

Current projects I work on in my spare time:

• Earth Friends – a Facebook app to visualize your social network on Google Earth.
• fIRC – Free IRC chat application for Android devices (google code project page)
• nuiSDK – A cross-platform framework for rapid multi-touch development using Openscenegraph and TUIO (C++).
• openFrameworks – Providing patches for building Android applications from the Windows platform.

Tools / applications I developed in the past:

• Multitouch Media Application – Photo and video organizing tool
• Touchsuite – A collection of open source multi-touch enabled applications (using TUIO)
• touchlib – Open source multi-touch development framework
• nJoy – Open source Dolphin compatible input plugin (now part of Dolphin)
• PuruPuru -A nullDC (Dreamcast emulator) compatible input plugin (now part of the nullDC project)
• VLC now playing v0.1 (beta) – mIRC plugin to display the current VLC video
• mircTunes v0.1 – mIRC plugin to display the current iTunes song
• Descent 3 Hex Tool – Hex colour tool hack for Descent 3
• Chip8 emulator – Chip8 interpreter / cpu emulator
• Chip8 emulator Android port – Chip8 interpreter / cpu emulator

Some websites I developed/designed:

• PCSX2.net – Playstation 2 emulator (PHP including some AJAX technology)
• Dolphin-emu.com – Gamecube/Wii emulator (PHP, old blue design)
• sdr.seas.harvard.edu – SDR Lab (PHP/Drupal)

Skills

Programming and scripting languages:

• Actionscript 3 / Adobe AIR
• C/C++ (including Linux)
• C# / .NET/WPF
• Java (Android)
• Javascript
• MySQL
• PHP
• Python

Programming Libraries and Toolkits:

• Android SDK
• DirectX 9
• XNA
• OpenGL / GLUT / OpenSceneGraph
• FMOD
• PSP SDK (an Open Source SDK for the Playstation Portable)
• SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library)
• VTK (The Visualization ToolKit)
• MS Surface SDK

Design and drawing applications:

• 3D Studio MAX
• AutoCAD
• Paintshop Pro / Gimp

Other technologies, tools and applications:

• Mathematica
• Matlab 5.x/6.x / Simulink
• MS Access (databases)
• SAP (user knowledge)
• CVS/SVN (subversion)
• XHTML / CSS / XML / Smarty Template Engine / Code Igniter

FAQ

1. What is www.falcon4ever.com?
It is my old website containing my (old) portfolio and some of my projects and tools.

2. What is www.lauw.biz (offline)?
It is my (old) multi-touch blog, its content has now been moved to this domain.