mcalder [at] cs (dot) umb (dot) edu 
Update September 2009
Spring of 2009 I finished my masters degree at UMB and I am now pursuing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Please visit my new homepage here.
About Me
I am was a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I currently work as a research assistant at the Center for Environmental Sensor Networks (CESN) under my advisor Bob Morris. At CESN I am working on sensor network cyber-infrastructure which includes integration of heterogeneous sensor platforms, interoperable machine interfaces to sensor data, and using reasoning systems to analyze sensor network data.
I also work as a software engineer at Onset Computer working on machine accessible sensor data services. My current research interests are in environmental sensor networks, GIS, and programming language design.
Projects and Software
Electronic Field Guide Project
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics Lab.
Jpeg2000 Image Metadata Editor
A collaborative image metadata editor for Jpeg2000 which supports metadata annotation of regions of interest within an image. The editor has a plug-in architecture for adding new metadata editors.
Jpeg2000 Java Library
efgPod
Support for the Electronic Field Guide on the iPod
Talks
Machine Reasoning about Anomalous Sensor Data. International Conference on Ecological Informatics ISEI 6, December 2008. Slides
Publications
Machine Reasoning about Anomalous Sensor Data. International Conference on Ecological Informatics ISEI 6, December 2008.
Teaching Data Structures to Students who are Blind. Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)
Plumb: An interface for Users who are Blind to Display, Create, and Modify Graphs (with Cohen, Lanzoni, and Xu), Proceedings of ACM SIG Access 2006, October 2006, pp. 263-264
Poster for Plumb: An interface for Users who are Blind to Display, Create, and Modify Graphs, Matt Calder, Jessica Lanzoni, Robert Cohen. Presented at ACM SIG Access 2006, October 2006. (Poster: powerpoint)
Guiding gardeners to native plant alternatives using internet technology Orth, Jennifer Forman; Stevenson, Robert; Asiedu, Jacob; Calder, Matthew, Cullina, William, and Morris, Robert. 2005. IPANE New England Invasive Plant Summit. (Poster: Website)