Ka-Ping Yee

I want to help save the world and have fun doing it. If you've got ideas, let's talk!

I recently finished graduate school at UC Berkeley and joined Google.org as a software engineer. Hooray! Here's my CV. here

• Interested in voting? See the voting page for work on electoral systems, electronic voting, and voting system security. Or check out my dissertation on electronic voting.
• Like to play with the Web? Try Regender or the Malkovich Mediator for a new perspective. Or, if you're a programmer, check out scrape.py, a handy module for scraping content from webpages.
• Want to learn Python? Have a look at the online lab exercises and assignments for the Python course I taught at UC Berkeley.

Here's a list of some things I've done. I'm still figuring out how to organize it.

Collaboration and hypertext
	Human-computer interaction
		Information design
			Music
				Python
					Security
						Teaching
							Voting and elections
								Websites and services
					S			W	2010	Google Buzz API Browser: explore what's publicly visible through the Google Buzz API
					S			W	2010	Facebook API Browser: explore what's publicly visible through the Facebook Graph API
		I				T	V		2010	Election Methods in Pictures: play with election counting methods to see how they work
	H							W	2010	Google Person Finder: a public missing persons database for the earthquake in Haiti
	H								2010	Multitetris: multiplayer cooperative Tetris for a multitouch table
	H	I						W	2009	SMS for Life: using mobile phones to improve distribution of malaria supplies in Africa
	H	I						W	2008	Google PowerMeter: an energy information platform for everyone
	H			P	S		V		2007	Ph. D. dissertation: on electronic voting and Pvote
					S		V		2007	Voting systems review (for the California Secretary of State)
	H			P	S		V		2007	Pvote: small and flexible software for voting machines
		I						W	2006	Genome Enhancer: the multi-organism version of Fly Enhancer
	H				S				2006	Passpet: convenient password management and phishing protection
			M						2006	Music 148. African music ensemble
								W	2005	Regender: a gender-swapped view of the Web
									2005	Sideways Room: disorienting decor for your party guests
				P		T			2005	CS 9H. Python: a self-paced programming course
		I					V		2005	Voting visualizations: comparing the fairness of election methods
C		I							2005	Threaded conversation map: a viewer for online discussions
									2005	PFIF: a standard for data about people missing or displaced by disasters
						T			2004	CS 184. Computer graphics
	H								2004	Two-handed tablet interface: a multitouch hack
				P		T			2003	CS 98/198. Beautiful code: a course in the art of Python
		I							2003	SeismoSpin: an interactive visualization for browsing earthquake data
	H								2003	User-directed screen reading: screen reading as an input operation
	H								2003	Peephole displays: handheld windows on a virtual workspace
									2003	Figure drawings: from a class I took in Cambridge, MA
		I		P				W	2002	Flamenco: a facet-based browsing and search interface
					S				2002	Auditors: an extensible code verification mechanism
			M						2002	Transcribed music for piano
C		I							2002	Zest: an experimental viewer for e-mail discussions
		I						W	2001	Fly Enhancer: a search engine for binding sites in D. melanogaster
		I							2001	Phoebus: progressive display of database query results
		I							2001	Notes from Infovis 2001
	H				S				2001	Secure interaction design: principles for usable secure software
		I							2001	GnuTellaVision: animated exploration of graphs with radial layout
								W	2000	Malkovich mediator: try this if you're in a wacky mood!
						T			2000	CS 61A. Structure and interpretation of computer programs
				P				W	2000	Roundup: an issue tracker for knowledge workers
	H							W	1999	Real-time chat (without Javascript, Java, or Flash)
C				P					1999	Pyxi: a browser for Xanadu hypertext
C								W	1997	Crit: a public annotation system for webpages
								W	1996	MINSE: enabling anyone to put math in webpages
								W	1995	Shodouka: a mediator for viewing Japanese websites

I also have a page of other small software projects that don't have their own project pages.