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Green, Computer Aided Persuasion and the Interface at the Edge

An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to...

Published 11-20-2009 6:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface

HP and Amateur Radio

I stumbled across this HP site talking about the use of HP computers in ham radio . I've been a ham radio operator for almost 40 years, and was pleasantly surprised by this alignment of my interests. Being able to communicate with people from all...

Published 11-16-2009 11:49 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Communications , Applications, Entertainment

Business Schools and Information Technology

I was sitting in on a meeting of the Information Technology and Operations Management ( ITOM ) curriculum committee at SMU the other day. One of the interesting things that has happened at business schools across the country is that they have reduced...

Published 11-11-2009 11:39 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business process modeling , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Trends, Applications, Modeling, business rules, Business-IT Alignment

Three ways to thrive

Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in...

Published 11-07-2009 12:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Toronto City Innovation Conference

Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications...

Published 11-05-2009 11:34 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Consumerization , Edge computing , Innovation , Trends, Applications, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Organizational relationships, User Interface

Application portfolio assessment's many benefits

Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a...

Published 09-26-2009 5:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Applications, Architecture

Taxonom

I was in a discussion the other day with HP's research lead Prith Banerjee . One of the research areas he talked about was Taxonom a data classification SaaS . This project is focused on deriving taxonomies from data. This is always an area I find...

Published 09-23-2009 8:04 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Applications, attention engineering, HP labs

Interview with HP Fellows: A prime time for innovation

A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the...

Published 09-21-2009 3:52 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

True Cloud – Virtualization Not Required

That may be a bold title, given that virtualization , and anything related to it, was all the rage just a few years ago. But lately, I have been pondering the implications of native cloud application architectures on the underlying infrastructure . A...

Published 08-31-2009 4:33 PM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Infrastructure , Applications, Virtualization, IaaS, Architecture

Authentication and automation possibilities

This seems to me the week that I'm thinking about interfaces and interaction. About a year ago I did a blog entry on interface shifts . One area I had not thought about at all was the use of the security interface hardware as a more general interaction...

Published 08-27-2009 3:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Edge computing , Applications, User Interface

Case Management: The Missing Link in BPM

At its June meeting, the Object Management Group has considered the issue of a draft RFP of case management modeling. The pending vote sparked considerable discussions and proposals of changes to the draft RFP resullting in postponement of action until...

Published 07-07-2009 8:30 PM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Applications, Change management, BPM

A new type of power grid from "plug" computers

I'd like to take consumerization of computing a bit further than I did in the previous post , There are now very low end computers like the SheevaPlug ($99) and the Pogoplug (also $99) coming into the low end of the market. These devices are almost...

Published 06-08-2009 8:09 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Edge computing, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Vision , Applications

Cloud Computing – Will History Teach Us Nothing – Yet Again?

We have seen the early versions of Cloud Computing models, with the promise of rapid service invocation, pay-per-use, ease of scaling, and simplified service-to-service interaction, and one can only help but think back to the mid-‘90s when the Internet...

Published 05-15-2009 11:30 PM by Darrel Thomas

Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services

Complex-event processing at the intersection of unlimited data and computing

A few weeks back, I was talking to EDS marketing. They interviewed me for some thoughts on technology innovation during a downturn in the economy . I spoke with them about the intersections of technology and how those possibilities grow exponentially...

Published 04-20-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, IT Services, Vision, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Vision , Applications, IT Services

Google voice heard ‘round the world

I've heard some discussion of Google Voice changing the telecom industry in fundamental ways . I personally don't see how it could have as much impact as Skype and other VoIP related approaches had, but I may have missed it. This new Google Service...

Published 03-27-2009 9:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Communications, Emerging Technologies, Communications , Emerging technologies , Applications

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