Kyle Machulis, better known as qDot, is a graduate of the
University of Oklahoma with a degree in Computer Science. He currently
spends his days as a mild-mannered engineer, and his nights sitting in front of his computer with the firm belief that someone on the internet cares about what he does.
Kyle has worked in everything from sex and technology to health devices to self driving cars to device reverse engineering and more (see the portfolio page for a more complete list).
If there was some unifying aspect to all of these projects that he was aware
of, it would be explained here. However, best he can figure, the only thread
through all of the projects he's worked on was that he was the one that
worked on them.
At least, he thinks he was the one that worked on them.
Experience
- Autodesk - Artist In Residence, 07/2014 - 01/2015
- Mozilla - Staff Platform/System Engineer, 10/2011 - Present
- 510 Systems - Senior Engineer, 05/2008 - 10/2011
- Linden Lab - Senior Software Developer, 06/2006 - 05/2008
- KISS Institute for Practical Robotics - Software Developer/Robotics Engineer, 12/2002 - 05/2006
- Netplus - Web Programmer, 08/2001 - 11/2002
- Microsoft - Software Development Engineer in Test Intern for Provisioning Framework Group, 05/2001 - 08/2001
- Microsoft Research - Microsoft Student Consultant at the University of Oklahoma, 10/1998 - 05/2001
- Microsoft - Security Testing Intern for Microsoft Knowledge Worker Services Group, 05/2000 - 08/2000
Education
- BS in Computer Science w/ Mathematics Minor, 1998-2002, University of Oklahoma
Publications
- Kyle Machulis, An Open-Source Sexual HCI Research Platform, Sexual
Interactions Workshop, SIGCHI, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 04/2006
- David P. Miller and Kyle Machulis, Visual Aids For Lunar Rover
Tele-Operation, Proceedings of iSAIRAS 2005, Munich, Germany,
09/2005
- Richard LeGrand, Kyle Machulis, David P. Miller, Randy Sargent &
Anne Wright, The XBC: A Modern Low-Cost Mobile Robot Controller,
Proceedings of IROS 2005, 08/2005
Articles
- Kyle Machulis, The Medium is the Massage, Boinkology Collection (Medium.com), 08/2013
- Kyle Machulis, I Program My Home Computer, Beam Myself into an Orgasm, Boinkology Collection (Medium.com), 07/2013
- Kyle Machulis, Holodeck or Bust, Boinkology Collection (Medium.com), 06/2013
- Kyle Machulis, Biometrics in the Bedroom, Arse Elektronika 2009
Anthology, 10/2010
- Thomas Roche, Kyle Machulis, /Getting the Message Across, Arse
Elektronika 2007 Anthology (Write-up by Thomas Roche of the AE 2007
presentation by Kyle Machulis)/, 10/2008
- Kyle Machulis, Everything I know about the Novint Falcon (Reprint
from nonpolynomial.com), GameSetWatch, 03/2008
- Kyle Machulis (as Isabelle Pavlova), A Bundle of Polys (Excerpt),
Sex In Video Games (Author: Brenda Brathwaite), Charles River Media,
09/2006
- Kyle Machulis, Game Girls Advance, Nerve.com, 12/2005
Exhibitions (Group)
- PIXELPORNO 2.0, Linz, Austria, 03/2015
- Pier 9 Artist In Residence Show, San Francisco, CA, 01/2015
- Cyberfest, St. Petersberg, Russia, 10/2010
- Technosexual Bodies, Hong Kong, China, 04/2010
- Roboexotica Exhibition, Vienna, Austria, 12/2009
- Arse Elektronika Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 09/2007
Presentations/Lectures/Conference Panels
- Sex Toy User Interaction and Experience, Sex and Technology Course,
Widener University, Chester, PA, 01/2016
- Fuckin' State of the Fuckin' Art Panel, Arse Elektronika, San
Francisco, CA, 10/2013
- The Future Is Now: Mind Controlled Interactive Music Panel, Audio
Engineering Society Conference, San Francisco, CA, 10/2012
- Teledildonics and Sex Technology, Porn and Pop Culture Course,
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, 05/2012
- Open Source Hardware Panel, Linux Audio Conference, Stanford, Palo
Alto, CA, 04/2012
- OpenYou and the Quantified Coder Project, Data Mining Meetup, San Francisco, CA, 03/2012
- Fursuiter Point Cloud Recording, Art && Code, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/2011
- OpenKinect Overview, NetExplorateur Zoom, Paris, France, 06/2011
- OpenYou and the Quantified Coder Project, Quantified Self Conference, Mountain View, CA, 05/2011
- OpenKinect Overview, Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA, 05/2011
- OpenYou and the Quantified Coder Project, Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA, 05/2011
- OpenYou and the Quantified Coder Project, Google IO, San Francisco, CA, 05/2011
- Robotic Vision and Rock Climbing Tracking, 3D Vision Meetup, Techshop, San Francisco, CA, 01/2011
- OpenKinect Overview, 3D Vision Meetup, Techshop, Menlo Park, CA, 12/2010
- OpenKinect Overview, ARDevCamp Bay Area @ GAFFTA, San Francisco, CA, 12/2010
- OpenKinect Overview, Nerd Night @ Rickshaw Show, San Francisco, CA, 12/2010
- OpenKinect Overview, Dorkbot @ Snibbe Interactive, San Francisco, CA, 11/2010
- Reusing Fun, Hackers Conference 2010, Santa Cruz, CA, 11/2010
- Reusing Fun, Subotron, Vienna, Austria, 09/2010
- Paraflows 2010, Vienna, Austria, 09/2010
- Monochrom #26-34 Reading, San Francisco, CA, 04/2010
- Getting the Message Across (Teledildonics and Sex Technology), Vienna Art Week, Vienna, Austria, 11/2009
- Robotics Panel, Roboexotica, Vienna, Austria, 12/2009
- Biometrics in the Bedroom, Arse Elektronika 2009, San Francisco, CA, 10/2009
- Control, or Lack Thereof, Metaverse U, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 05/2009
- Teledildonics and Sex Technology, Edges, Bay Area, CA, 06/2008
- BSDM and Web 2.0 Panel, Leather Leadership Conference XII, San Francisco, CA, 04/2008
- Getting the Message Across (Teledildonics and Sex Technology), O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, San Diego, CA, 03/2008
- Second Life Panel, Further Confusion 2008, San Jose, CA, 01/2008
- Avatar Creativity Panel, Orange Presents: Identity Summit, Orange 1, Second Life, 11/2007
- Getting the Message Across (Teledildonics and Sex Technology), Arse Elektronika, San Francisco, CA, 10/2007
- Storytelling, Writers With Drinks, The Makeout Room, San Francisco, CA, 06/2007
- Teledildonics Presentation, Dorkbot, Porn Palace, San Francisco, CA, 05/2007
- Teledildonics Presentation, Sex Hacks, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA, 05/2007
- Building an Art Portfolio in Second Life, GDX, Savannah, GA, 04/2007
- Sex and Computational Technology Panel, SXSW 2007 Interactive, Austin, TX, 03/2007
- Second Life Panel, Further Confusion 2007, San Jose, CA, 01/2007
- Sex and the Gaming Couple Panel, Computers, Couples, and Gaming, Ruby Skye, San Francisco, CA, 11/2006
- Sex and Second Life Panel, Second Life Community Convention, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, 08/2006
- Sex in Games, European Women in Games Conference, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK, 07/2006
- An Open Source Platform for Sexual Interaction Research, Sexual Interactions Workshop, SIGCHI 2006, Montreal, Canada, 04/2006
- Sex In Games w/ Brenda Brathwaite, Game Developers Conference, San Jose, California, 03/2006
- Secret Life of Sex in Games Panel, South by Southwest Interactive, Austin, TX, 03/2006
- Sex In Games w/ Brenda Brathwaite, Women's Game Conference/Austin Games Conference, Austix, TX, 10/2005
Visiting Artist Lectures
- Autodesk Pier 9, San Francisco, CA, USA, 03/2015
- Subotron, Vienna, Austria, 09/2010
- Vienna Art Week, Vienna, Austria, 11/2009
- University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria, 11/2009
Honors and Awards
- Interaction Design Award, Roboexotica, 12/2009
- Golden Kleene Award, Arse Elektronika, 09/2007
- Member, University of Oklahoma Team, ACM Programming Competition World Finals, 03/1999
Residencies
- Autodesk Pier 9, San Francisco, CA, USA, 07/2014 - 01/2015
- Quatier21/Monochrom, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria, 11/2009 - 12/2009
Workshops
- Kinect and Teledildonics, Art && Code Conference @ CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/2011
- Open Teledildonics Workshop, WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 10/2010
Bibliography/Mentions
- Is a Patent Troll About to Kill the High-Tech Dildo Industry?, Vice, 08/2015
- How a Sex Toy vs. Patent Troll War Could Affect Your Kickstarter, Fast Company, 08/2015
- Sorry You Can't Have Any More Sex Toys Because of This Patent, Gizmodo, 08/2015
- "Teledildonics" patent used to sue six nascent cybersex companies, Ars Technica, 08/2015
- "Spielwiese | Sextoys", Puls Radio Show for br.de, 05/2015
- "Bees Were the Original 3-D Printers": Autodesk Has Its First Art Show, re/code, 01/2015
- Hear the strange, surprising sounds of 3D printers and laser cutters, CNet, 01/2015
- The Sex Toys of the Digital Age Still Have a Long Way to Go, Vice, 01/2015
- Sexbot Slaves, Aeon, 06/2014
- Teledildonics, interactieve neukmachines en de toekomst van seks, Motherboard (Netherlands), 11/2013
- Kyle Machulis: Hardware Hacker, Make Magazine, 01/2012
- The Measured Life, MIT Technology Review, 07/2011
- Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics, Wired, 06/2011
- Microsoft's Ambivilence About Kinect Hackers, Bloomberg Businessweek, 01/2011
- Kinect Sex is here, game company says, CNet, 12/2011
- No Kinect Sex Yet, but the potential is there, CNet, 11/2010
- Inside the Race to Hack the Kinect, New Scientist, 11/2010
- De techniek van sexspeeltjes, Delta, 09/2010
- Erwachsenenunterhaltung: Nichts Neues im Nacktprogramm?, Elektrischer Reporter, 08/2010
- Emotion in Motion - Where is sex in gaming today?, ready-up.net, 09/2009
- Really, Really, Really Intimate Interfaces @ ETech 2008, O'ReillyNet, 03/2008
- GDC 08: Sex Comes Out of the Closet, Gametap.com, 02/2008
- Yo-Yo Core, Make Magazine Blog, 01/2008
- Virtual Sex, WebMD, 01/2008
- Sex in a Virtual World, Times of India, 12/2007
- Weird Science: Lisa the Foreplay Robot, CNet MP3 Insider, 10/2007
- Rise of the f*cking machines: Arse Elektronika bumps uglies with Web 2.0, The Register, 10/2007
- Standing Up to Takedown Notices, Washington Post, 10/2007
- The Copyright Buzz from the Electric Slide, news.com, 06/2007
- Electric Slide Creator Calls Off Online Tackdown Campaign, EFF.org, 05/2007
- Review of the Sexual Interactions Workshop at CHI 2006, About.com : Sexuality, 05/2006
- Is Filth The Future?, Xbox World UK, 04/2006
- Sex Replaces Fighting in Online Games, FOX News, 04/2006
- Roomba takes Frogger to the Asphalt Jungle, news.com, 03/2006
- Reciprocal Demand, Austin Chronical, 03/2006
- Sex Alive and Well in Video Games, CNet, 03/2006
- SXSW: My Blue World: Game Experts Give Red Light Talk, Gamasutra, 03/2006
- Fleshbot - Sex in Video Games at SXSW, Fleshbot, 03/2006
- Games That Get Your Groove On, Bonnie Ruberg, Wired.com, 01/2006
- Machinima For The Masses, Annalee Newitz, Wired.com, 01/2006
- Top 10 Sexiest Geeks of 2005, Violet Blue, Tiny Nibbles, 12/2005
- You're the Present, You Sexy Geek, Regina Lynn, Wired.com, 12/2005
- Cyberporn Sells in a Virtual World, Bonnie Ruberg, Wired.com, 12/2005
- Getting a Rise From the "Sex in Games" Presentation at WGC, Gamergod.com, 11/2005
- Sex In Games: More than the Sound of One Hand Clapping, Mahmood Ali, Global Gaming League, 11/2005
- Build Your Dream Sex Machine, Regina Lynn, Wired.com, 06/2005