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Central Nervous System for the Earth

The New York Times had an article on HP labs activities to gather information on a massive scale . It's a research and development program to show an example of building a planet-wide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and...

Published 11-23-2009 6:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Energy , Trends, Technology adoption, Analytics

A whole other kind of cloud computing for the 2012 Olympics

This article from the BBC describes a huge piece of infrastructure being proposed for the London Olympics . "A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects...

Published 11-19-2009 1:48 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , attention engineering, User Interface, Entertainment

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

Web 2.0 four years later and five years out

There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing...

Published 10-09-2009 3:19 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Social networking, Semantic

Are the drivers for a cloud data center all that different than for a traditional data center?

A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware...

Published 09-25-2009 10:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , IT Services

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

StreamInsight – pulling CEP upstream?

Last month Microsoft StreamInsight went public. This software provides a platform for developing and deploying complex event processing applications based on recognizing patterns and enabling an organization to act upon them. "Its high-throughput...

Published 09-18-2009 10:40 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Trends, Workflow, Analytics, Agentry

Enterprise Architectures role in combating cloud sprawl

In a recent article in Computerworld there was a discussion of the phenomenon of cloud computing expanding uncontrollably in an enterprise. Cloud was compared to the client/server and departmental computing shift that took place in the late 80s and 90s...

Published 09-17-2009 7:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Utility computing, Architecture, Change management

Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens?

A week or so back I did a blog entry on augmented reality possibilities , and in this month's IEEE Spectrum there is an article on the placing displays right on the eye . This is done by having the display and possibly sensors integrated with a contact...

Published 09-03-2009 11:29 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Vision , Pervasive computing, User Interface

What’s next for wireless power?

As I was packing for my recent vacation, I realized that I needed to take battery chargers for not just my SmartPhone, but also for my camera, two iPods, as well as my wife’s mobile phone. None of these chargers work on any of the other devices...

Published 09-01-2009 12:33 AM by Bill Phifer

Filed under: Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , Mobility

3D visualization to a desktop near you

Circular polarization has been used in more movies lately to display 3D content with inexpensive polarized glasses. The ability to display polarized content is available today in a number of different monitors and TV screens, although I've not seen...

Published 08-26-2009 2:23 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Trends, 3D

Augmented reality moving into general availability

The BBC has an article: Mobile phones get cyborg vision that got me thinking about the number of times I've seen examples of augmented reality demonstration projects recently. This article states: "Via the video function of a mobile phone's...

Published 08-25-2009 1:47 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Trends, Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, 3D

Three laws of robots actually a human restriction

In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities"...

Published 08-20-2009 2:21 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Robotics , Software Reliability , Technology adoption, Pervasive computing, Agentry

Burt Rutan – the Innovator’s Innovator

Every July, the title of the World’s Busiest Airport shifts to a small airport in Wisconsin as between 10,000 and 15,000 air crafts visits the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Airventure fly-in at Oshkosh Wisconsin. Originally started...

Published 08-10-2009 1:56 PM by ed.kettler@eds.com

Filed under: Emerging technologies , Innovation , Learning

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