About Simon Tan » Graduate of UC Berkeley

I was a not-so-average Berkeley student who pursued and obtained the following ridiculously long-winded degrees:

I was affiliated with the following on-campus organizations:

I completed my final degree in May 2009 with the writing of this Masters thesis. More of my work can be found below.

Self

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My Résumé
A user-friendly résumé? I try.

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Sybak Blog
The Blog of CalMap and More

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iSchool Blog
Adventures at the School of Information

Research

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Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones
An exploration into creating and testing a game with children in rural India
Highlighting use of: J2ME

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Illuminac Lighting w/Voice
Array lighting control with speech
Highlighting use of: XHTML+Voice

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Hesperian Foundation Digital Library
The world's first universally-accessible digital library of healthcare for developing regions
Highlighting use of: Ruby on Rails

Coursework

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Physical Battleship
The classic strategy game turned into an embodied experience
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Nominal Color Encoding Generator
A color palette generator that considers sound color use guidelines
Highlighting use of: Simulated Annealing

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Map of the Internet
An interactive visualization of the space of IPv4 addresses
Highlighting use of: Flare Toolkit

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CalMap
The UC Berkeley Mapping Solution, a Google Maps project for the campus
Highlighting use of: Google Web Toolkit

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Skilift Optimizer 2009
The latest innovation in skilift resort optimization
Highlighting use of: Agile Development

Earlier Work

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APUSH4
Ms. Wold's AP US History class loves flashcards
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ssPangea 2004/5
Hilariously outdated personal website
Highlighting use of: Tables instead of CSS (shamefully)

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Rubik's Cube Primer
Helping out a Rubik's Cube DeCal
Highlighting use of: Java applets