Patents

I am currently inventor on 45 issued US patents (17 as first inventor), in areas including high-altitude balloons, photo-voltaic displays, security, peer-to-peer communication, zoomable user interfaces, and context-based information retrieval.

Bradley Rhodes Publications (first author peer reviewed)

• Automatic Discovery and Execution of Personal Applications from Shared IO Devices, B. J. Rhodes, S. Chemishkian, E. L. Schwartz, S. Savitzky and H. Yu, 2010 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2010, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421693.
• Using Physical Context for Just-in-Time Information Retrieval, Bradley Rhodes, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 52, No. 8, August 2003 pp. 1011-1014.
• Just-in-time information retrieval agents, Bradley Rhodes and Pattie Maes, IBM Systems Journal special issue on the MIT Media Laboratory, Vol 39, Nos. 3 and 4, 2000 pp. 685-704.
• Just-In-Time Information Retrieval. Bradley J. Rhodes. Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT Media Lab, May 2000. Also available in PDF
• Margin Notes: Building a Contextually Aware Associative Memory (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, in The Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '00), New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2000.
• Wearable Computing Meets Ubiquitous Computing: Reaping the best of both worlds (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, Nelson Minar and Josh Weaver, in The Proceedings of The Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '99), San Francisco, CA, October 18-19 1999. (Postscript)
• WIMP Interface Considered Fatal (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, presented at the IEEE VRAIS 98 Workshop on Interfaces for Wearable Computers, March 15, 1998.
• The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A system for augmented memory (html) , Bradley Rhodes, in Personal Technologies Journal Special Issue on Wearable Computing , Personal Technologies (1997) 1:218-224. Compressed Postscript (119K), SpringerLink. See also the earlier version from The Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '97), Cambridge, Mass, October 1997, pp. 123-128. Compressed Postscript (121K)
• The Remembrance Agent: A continuously running automated information retrieval system, Bradley Rhodes and Thad Starner, The Proceedings of The First International Conference on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi Agent Technology (PAAM '96), London, UK, April 1996, pp. 487-495.
• PHISH-Nets: Planning Heuristically in Situated Hybrid Networks, MIT Media Arts and Sciences S.M. Thesis, 1996.
• Pronomes in Behavior Nets (abstract here), by Bradley Rhodes. Technical Report # 95-01, MIT Media Lab, Learning and Common Sense Section. [This is an early tech report leading to my MS thesis]
• The Storymaster: Automatic Creation of Acts of God for Dramatic Effect, presented at the AAAI-95 spring symposium on Plot and Character in Interactive Story systems at Stanford.

Invited Talks and Lectures

• Fast Updating of Bistable Displays for Pen Tracking and Page Flipping, Bradley Rhodes, IDW'09 The 16th International Display Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, 2009.
• Invited tutorial on Introduction to Wearable Computing (with Thad Starner), International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2003 (White Plains, New York, 10/21/03)
  PDF, PowerPoint
• Invited tutorial on Introduction to Wearable Computing (with Thad Starner), ACM SIBMOBILE/USENIX First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (San Francisco, California, 5/5/03)
• Invited tutorial on Introduction to Wearable Computing (with Thad Starner), International Symposium on Wearable Computing 2002 (Seattle Washington, 10/7/02)
  Powerpoint
• Invited tutorial on Introduction to Wearable Computing (with Thad Starner), International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2002 (Zurich Switzerland, 8/28/02)
  Powerpoint
• Guest lecture on Intelligence Augmentation, Stanford Seminar on People Computers and Design (CS547) (5/3/02)
  Windows Media, Powerpoint
• Invited Talk on Intelligence Augmentation. 3rd International Spearman Seminar on Extending Intelligence (Sydney Australia, 11/30/01)
  Powerpoint, Google Slides
• Panelist, Gartner Group, Mastermind Panel: Future Technologies (Orlando Florida, 10/8/01)
  Powerpoint

Other Publications

• Wearables in 2005, Bradley Rhodes and Kenji Mase, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 92-95, 2006. HTML
• How is An Agent Like a Wolf?: Dominance and Submission in Multi-Agent Systems, by Bill Tomlinson, Bruce Blumberg, and Bradley Rhodes. In Proceedings of the International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000). December 11-13, 2000. Wollongong, Australia.
• Situation Aware Computing with Wearable Computers, by Bernt Schiele, Thad Starner, Brad Rhodes, Brian Clarkson, and Alex Pentland. To appear as a Book Chapter in the forthcoming Augmented Reality and Wearable Computers, W. Barfield and T. Caudell (editors), Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
• Augmented Realities Integrating User and Physical Models, by T. Starner and B. Schiele and B.J. Rhodes, T. Jebara and N. Oliver and J. Weaver and A. Pentland, in The Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Augmented Reality, Nov. 1998.
• Wearable computing and the remembrance agent, Barry Crabtree and Bradley Rhodes, in BT Technology Journal, 16(3), July 1998, pp. 118-124. MS-Word file.
• Augmented Reality Through Wearable Computing, by Thad Starner, Steve Mann, Bradley Rhodes, Jeffrey Levine, Jennifer Healey, Dana Kirsch, Rosalind W. Picard, and Alex Pentland. Presence, Special Issue on Augmented Reality, vol 6(4), Fall 1997. Compressed Postscript (TR-397) or HTML Also available, TR-355 (an earlier version)
• Alive: Dreams and illusions, by Trevor Darrell, Bruce Blumberg, Sharon Daniel, Brad Rhodes, Pattie Maes, and Alex Pentland. In ACM SIGGraph, Computer Graphics Visual Proceedings, July 1995