Hello my name is Todd Huffman, and these are the things that I do...

(A collection of links I was involved in somehow, in order of recency and time demands)

(FYI, I feel like I play a minor role in most of these projects, so please clarify before attributing them fully to me, as I'll usually want to give more credit to a collaborator who has a more involved role.  I'm easy to reach via e mail or @ToddHuffman on Twitter)

 

 

...help the Synergy Strike Force and STAR-TIDES design and implement sustainable techologies in developing countries, particularly Afghanistan.  I function as a formal or informal advisor and strategist for various projects. 

Partnership with USAID Global Development Commons

WIRED Articles - Surge of Nerds Rebuilds Afghanistan -- Fast, Cheap and Sustainable: Ex-Pentagon Geek Plots Disaster Relief 2.0

BBC - Mapping the Afghan elections

Off the Map - Huffman’s Three Principles for Data Sharing

Off the Map - Camp Roberts Exercise and the Afghanistan Elections: Creating a Geo-Stack for Humanitarian Relief 

Sean Wohltman - Preparing for Afghanistan Elections and Humanitarian Efforts

Santiago Palladino - Camp Roberts RELIEF Recap 

Michal Migurski - dispatch from camp roberts  

Development seed - Data Collection Simulations in the Field at Camp Roberts

Mikel Maron - There is a Kitfox. More on OpenStreetMap at Camp Roberts 

STAR-TIDES

Synergy Strike Force 

 

 

...run a project called sStitch.  We’re trying to make mobile computing better by improving how you create, organize, analyze and consume data on handhelds by using social and geospatial context.  I’m the owner as well as product designer, secretary, strategist, and Chief Nag.

The sStitch Project

We won 'Best Social App' at iPhoneDevCamp

We run our company in the Gangplank HQ co-working space

 

...co-founded a small conference called BIL.  We’re open culture advocates trying to make the world a better place through bold vision and action.  I arrange a lot of the basic infrastructure for the conference, as well as coordinate the various teams in our community.

BIL Conference

WIRED Article - Informal Conference Borrows TED's Big Ideas, Not Its Pretense

NPR coverage - On the Road, There Will Be Robots

 

...am on the Board of Directors of Humanity +, "is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. In other words, we want people to be better than well."

Humanity +

Humanity + Board of Directors

KurzweilAI.net - Humanity+ Summit and Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar

Covered on WIRED - The H+ Summit

 

...work in cryonics as a consultant.  We’re trying to defeat death through the use of science, a task we are the first to admit is possibly impossible but worth trying.  I help design equipment, procedures, and training, as well as in the trenches case-work.

Consultant - Suspended Animation; Field Team Member - Alcor

A paper I co-authored - The Arrest of Biological Time as a Bridge to Engineered Negligble Senescence

 

...study neuroscience and synthetic biology.  We’re trying to understand how biology gives rise to complex behavior.  I collaborate with several researchers, usually providing opinions on specialized matters relating to neurons, as well as develop my own theories on the side.

A paper I co-authored - Selective Attention Affect Human Brain Stem Frequency-Following Response

A lab I collaborate with - Brain Networks Laboratory at Texas A&M

 

...contribute to open and free culture.  We’re trying to make the world a better place by contributing to a ‘creative commons’.  I license most of my copyrighted works under Creative-Commons (Attribution Only), which means anyone can use those works for free or create derivative works without asking me as long as they cite the work as mine.

Images of mine used on Wikipedia

Images of mine used around the web

 

...volunteer for the Methuselah Foundation.  We're trying to fix biological aging in a meaningful way, another gargantuan task which I think is possible.  I provide analysis and opinions relating to technology transfer strategy.

The Methuselah Foundation do-er page.

 

...(sort of) organize a Burning Man community -- the PlayaGon Village.  We had a lot of fun this year at 9 and F, and last year as 9:30 and Esplanad.

PseudoFeds Wiki

Our camp under construction

 

...take a lot of pictures.  This is how I’m documenting my life so that when I’m old I’ve got something to bore future generations with.

My Photo Blog

 

Things I’ve done in the past that I’m particularly proud of...

 

...advised the Peer to Patent project.  We’re trying to improve the quality of the patent system for both the general public and industry by allowing open ad public peer-review contributions to prior art searches.  I participated in several design workshops dealing with online collaboration and peer review, from which design contributions of mine have been implemented in the United State and Japanese patent offices.

Peer to Patent Project

 

...explored the philosophy of mind and sensation through magnetic implants.  We’re trying to understand the structure and function of cognition through self experimentation.  I helped design, build, and was the first to receive subdermal magnetic implants for the purpose of expanding the sensory range.

WIRED Article - A Sixth Sense for a Wired World

Interview - The Gift of Magnetic Vision

Book I'm interviewed in - Enhancing Me: The Hope and Hype of Human Enhancement

 

...interned at the Technology Ventures Services group, which commercializes cutting edge techology developed in Arizona along with the Arizona Technolgy Enterprises, the technology transfer firm at Arizona State University, as well as assisting local high-tech companies.  I helped analyse the commercial potential of biotechnologies immediately after invention as part of AzTE's intellectual property portfolio management process.

TVSG -http://law.asu.edu/techventures

 

...written for a variety of publications, including Men's Fitness Magazine and the Long Beach Union.  Writing is second only to photography in preservability and ease of consumption, and is a worthwhile time investment.  I wish I were better at it.

Men's Fitness article - Meal Timing Benefits

The Long Beach Union - Thankfully most of my articles were pre-web caching, however my column did catch the attention of USA Today

 

Talks I've given or will give...

 

Future...

 

Past...

 

SXSW Interactive -  How Social Networks Are Killing the Revolution

 

iPhoneDevCamp -- GeoSocial Data Organization

FOO Camp -- Neural Hacking

BIL Conference -- Hacking the Human Fantastic

Foresight Senior Associates Vision Conference -- Pathways to Whole Brain Emulation

Oxford Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies -- Whole Brain Emulation Workshop

h+ Tucson -- Designing a Path to Organism Emulation

h+ Tucson -- Reality Hacking: The Transition from Cyberpunk to Science to Engineering

 

Things I'm "Qualified" to do...

 

Thoughts on qualifications -- Never wait until you're fully qualified to do something before starting down that road.  If you want to do something find some small thing you can do, and just do it.  Learn by doing.  Get qualified later.

 

Computational Biosciences -- Master's -- Arizona State University

 

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies -- Graduate Certificate -- Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

 

Neuroscience -- Bachelor's -- California State University at Long Beach