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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

Computing Research that Changed the World

In March 2009, there was a symposium titled Computing Research that Changed the World . Ed Lazowska from the University of Washington gave the introductory talk, "Changing the World," and the symposium offered four sessions, which are now available...

Published 06-17-2009 3:12 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Vision

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

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

Technology Intersections and Growth from a Downturn

I mentioned a while back that the next wave of computing will appear to be a product of the financial downturn . One of the reasons for this is not just the continued new technologies developed during the downturn whose deployment is delayed; it is the...

Published 04-15-2009 7:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Vision

FRC competition in Dallas

Last weekend, we had the initial FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in Dallas. Recently, I was a judge for the FIRST Lego League competition in Dallas (first picture). A pair of 7 th grade competitors described how they spent most of the previous summer...

Published 03-16-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Collaboration, Emerging technologies , Vision

Self-learning robot learns to walk

This article in the NewScientist describes the use of neural networks in allowing a robot to learn to use new leg features (e.g., joints). Neural networks are a computation technique that reinforces "good" behavior and learns to solve problems...

Published 02-20-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, Vision, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Robotics , Vision

Moving to the 3D web and telepresence

Intel is inviting the public to come to ScienceSim (a virtual world ) and discover its possibilities for building collaborative visualization tools... "Within ScienceSim's world you'll find some starting buildings, templates for forums and...

Published 02-05-2009 6:15 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Communications, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, IT Services, Transportation, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Communications , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Transportation , Vision , Applications, IT Services, 3D

Bold use of IT

I've seen a number of notes and articles about it being time for IT leaders to focus on cost cutting ... during the economic downturn. In fact, there are whole seminars dedicated to it. That statement is true, but it should always be true (regardless...

Published 01-06-2009 8:45 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, infrastructure, Vision, Business value generation , Infrastructure , Vision , Applications

Predictions for 2009

For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past...

Published 12-29-2008 9:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, SOA, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Infrastructure , SaaS, SOA , Vision , Applications, IT Services

A Review of the Predictions for 2008

For the last few years I've been grading my predications at the end of the year ( 2006 , 2007 ), so it seems like time to look at those for 2008 . My predictions for 2009 will be out in a few weeks. The predictions for 2008 were: Mobile Redefinition...

Published 12-15-2008 10:15 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, SOA, Vision, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Green IT, SOA , Vision

The Innovation Economy

By: Joe R. Hill and Tom L. Hill (no relation) In his book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , Peter Drucker states, "Defending yesterday-that is, not innovating-is far more risky than making tomorrow." This observation has never been as true...

Published 12-03-2008 4:13 AM by Joe Hill

Filed under: Innovation, Vision, Innovation , Vision

The Trends for 2009 have started

Is it just me, or is everyone rushing the holiday season this year? I've already seen a commercial for How the Grinch Stole Christmas ; by the time you read this, it will have aired on TBS . The IT industry has started as well. Baseline came out with...

Published 11-18-2008 9:21 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Vision, Emerging technologies , Vision

How will we use all this processing (the age of abundance in computing)??

A while back I wrote a blog entry about the age of abundance in computing . Recently, I exchanged some email with Ken Orr (of Cutter) about the issues related to maximizing value delivered from multi-core solutions using parallel processing techniques...

Published 07-21-2008 11:26 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, SaaS, Vision, Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Vision , Applications

Phoenix (a processor that could enable ubiquitous computing)

One thing that some people seem to overlook, is that when Moore's law packs in the transistors, it also enables much smaller power requirements and devices, for those applications that can deliver value within the performance constraints. This article...

Published 07-08-2008 9:54 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Healthcare, infrastructure, Vision, Emerging technologies , Healthcare , Infrastructure , Vision

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