Eamonn O'Brien-Strain

System Architect/Researcher
Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

Eamonn O'Brien-Strain is a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. He has more than twenty years experience in research and development, including building design tools for chip designers and system engineers at GEC Research in England, AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey, and Cadence Design Systems in California. He has also chased the Silicon Valley dream and helped in several start-ups, the latest of which was a dot-com company acquired by HP in 2001.

At HP Labs, O'Brien-Strain has worked on pervasive computing, synthesis of video from consumer media, designing platforms to advance research in multimedia algorithms, and the use of online casual games to help organize personal photo collections. He is currently the software architect for a web application that will analyze the semantics of web sites, extract content, and create high-quality printed brochures and magazines.

 

Research interests

Building web-scale architecture. Helping non-professionals create aesthetically pleasing and profession-looking media, including video, photographs, magazines, and brochures.

Publications

  • "Snapfish Lab: An Open Online Imaging Community", Peng Wu, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Jerry Liu, 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP2008, October 2008
  • "Image collection taxonomies for photo-book auto-population with intuitive interaction", Pere Obrador, Nathan Moroney, Ian MacDowell, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, September 2008, DocEng '08: Proceeding of the eighth ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • "Securely Propagating Authentication in an Ensemble of Personal Devices Using Single Sign-on", Prakash Reddy, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Jim Rowson, ESAS 2004: 178-189
  • "Updating Encrypted XML Documents on Untrusted Machines", Prakash Reddy, Robert N. Mayo, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Jim Rowson, Yuhong Xiong,. SEC 2004: 425-440
  • "Rememberer: A Tool for Capturing Museum Visits", Margaret Fleck, Marcos Frid, Tim Kindberg, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Rakhi Rajani, Mirjana Spasojevic, September 2002, UbiComp '02: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • "From Informing to Remembering: Ubiquitous Systems in Interactive Museums", Margaret Fleck, Marcos Frid, Tim Kindberg, Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, Rakhi Rajani, Mirjana Spasojevic, April 2002, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1 Issue 2
  • "Co-Design Made Real: Generating and Verifying Complete System Hardware and Software Implementations", Mark Baker, & Eamonn O'Brien-strain (1999).  In Embedded Systems Conference. San Jose, CA. 

Patents

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