Looking for a field to disrupt with your work? Looking for very difficult apps to develop? Looking for great scientists to help? Looking for good reasons to go to sea and travel around the world? Don't know what you're looking for? !4
• claiming a few world firsts (ex.: in trains, telco micro-economics, 747 autopilot flight testing, stock market buy&sell, dolphins) • one app deemed impossible (ex.: an app that writes other apps in production for complex telco switches) • some life-critical (ex.: trains, airplanes, pesticides) • invented and used my own tools (ex.: event-based modelling, knowledge maps) • designed multiple expert systems in production (gofai) • said “no, sorry” to G twice • developing open-source library for acoustic communication apps, on GitLab • 2 apps on G Play, a third one coming soon !5
potential users, partners, competitors, antagonists, and a bit of history • Part 2: Android – app design and technical issues – AI/aNN • Part 3: Features – Required & Recommended • Part 4: Usage issues !8
Dolphin Project – WDP • http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/membership/the-chat-society/ • Dr. Thad Starner – Google Glass Tech Lead • Two-way device, with some AI • The Bahamas: > 30 years, same families of dolphins !9
connects your headphones to live hydrophones” • https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer? mid=1F2tUPCjqmYNQhMS-767YRipppIE&ll=48.26009155791273%2C-123.00161468982 697&z=8 • Dr. Paul Spong (orcas) – whale sanctuary project – OrcaLab with Helena Symonds – ~50 years • http://www.orcasound.net/2018/03/29/shortcuts-for-listening-to-the-canadian-pacific/ • Working on an app, crowd-sourced • passive (no emission) only listening – one-way – limited !11
and participate in research” • Dr Toni Frohoff - Terramar - Whale Stewardship – whale sanctuary project • https://wearesonar.org/2017/07/21/conversing-with-dolphins-holy-grail- interspecies-communication/ • Catherine Kinsman • USA, Nova Scotia, The Bahamas, Central America, other places… !19
sanctuary project • Dr. Diana Reiss • Nora Bateson (father was Dr J C Lilly’s best friend) – Okeanos Foundation • Dr. Vergara, Vancouver Aquarium, St. Lawrence belugas • Richard Sears, et al., Îles Mingan, QC, blue • Dr. Lusseau, U. Aberdeen, “culture” • Dr. Peter Tyack, U. St. Andrews • Dr. Whitehead (Nova Scotia) – whale sanctuary project https://whalesanctuaryproject.org/our-team/ • Dr. Au • Dr. John Ford: orca dialects, since ~1977, BC, CA gov. employee? !20
a first, with 2 others, risked career), now ecology, RV The Odyssey, Gloucester, US • Dr. Xanadu Halkias, acoustics analysis • The pirate, Captain Paul Watson ☠ • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society https://seashepherd.org • My advice: Avoid violence !21
Herman, et al., U. Hawaii, 1980’s, visual, first artificial sentences • e.g., “get the blue frisbee and put it at the left corner of pool” • Dr. Roger Payne et al., 1970’s, first analysis of whale songs, Nat Geo • R. Cheney, USCG, 1960’s, audio, analog, two-way • sonars http://www.navy.mil/viewGallery.asp?id=103&page=7&r=4 !24
C. Lilly, 1950s-1980s, Janus Project, audio, digital, two-way; completed?; US Gov; Gregory Bateson, George Lucas • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly • Dr Dwight (Wayne) Batteau, ~1964, first automated system, analog, emitter (two-way?), US Navy; daily ocean swimmer but drowned on day of making the device public !25
integer or Float? A: Float! recent, not all devices • Q: Java or C? • Q: C with OpenSL ES or AAudio? • A: Java because Java Audio is not the limiting factor, the graphics is (canvas) • https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/audio/audio-latency !30
• NNAPI: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/neuralnetworks/ • Android 8.1 = API Level 27 • Longer term: Discover higher-level patterns, some possibly not in human languages !35
artificial whistles using one device each (in air) • Sources for artificial whistles: • Your own whistles • Your researcher’s whistles • Inspired by existing human whistle languages • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language !37
• underwater • radio waves are absorbed • cables are cumbersome – but a possibility in some cases • And no significant internet even on boat when at sea • satellite links are slow and expensive !44
illegal without a “Take” license in some jurisdictions (e.g., USA, maybe Canada, other locations) • It seems that all US citizens are not allowed to emit underwater sound near cetaceans without a Take license, anywhere in the world !49
towards cetaceans ... or humans • Do not support violent activists or activities, directly or indirectly, and take care on social media • Some pro-animal, some anti-whaling, some vegan, etc., can be violent !51
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