US 7,751,431
There is one type of junk mail I don’t mind seeing in my postal inbox. Whenever the US Patent Office grants a patent, all kinds of opportunists from the awards, personalization, and engraving industry spam the inventors with offers of beautiful plaques engraved with the patent’s front page. I was happy to experience this junk […]
Google IO 2010 – Trip Report
Last month I attended the Google IO 2010 Conference in San Francisco along with my colleague Dr. Hans Dulimarta. The conference is Google’s annual developer’s conference where the company announces their new product initiatives and also offer in-depth sessions on various Google technology platforms. The event attracted a sell-out audience of over 5,000 technologists from […]
Prezi, zooming user interfaces, and PowerPoint relief
Not so long ago one of my students (John Spencer) introduced me to Jef Raskin’s book “The Humane Interface“. While I have yet to read the book cover to cover, it’s got some interesting ideas in it including the notion of a “zooming user interface” or “ZUI”. Independent of John’s suggestion, another friend of mine […]
5 Interesting Features for Retail/Hospitality Mobile Apps
Every mobile application targeting a retail or hospitality use case seems to have the obvious features: finding business locations, contact information, product/offering information, and in some cases user reviews/ratings of what’s being offered. These apps amount in many ways to a repackaging of the merchant’s existing website as a native application for the iPhone or […]
GVSU’s fabulous skyline is getting even better!
When I recently returned to my roots here at GVSU, I not only had to an assimilate an amazingly altered campus from what I left behind back in 1988, but I also had to get accustomed to the fact that GVSU now sprawls across the entire W. Michigan area. In addition to the main Allendale […]
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About Me
Jonathan Engelsma is a computer scientist, programmer, teacher, mobile technology enthusiast, inventor, beekeeper and life long learner. He is currently a Professor in GVSU's School of Computing, where he leads the GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Laboratory.
