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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

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

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

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

This week I've talked with a couple of organizations about cloud deployments and expected benefits. One thing that I found interesting is the difference in HP's perspective from other providers. When a service provider (like HP Enterprise Services...

Published 11-14-2009 1:28 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Architecture

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

Autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak at racing speed

Looks like Stanford is going to tackle climbing Pikes Peak . It will not be the first autonomous car to climb Pikes Peak (a challenging 12.4-mile ascent that includes 156 turns and ends more than 14,000 feet above sea level) but they'll try to do...

Published 11-09-2009 9:46 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics , Adaptation

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

Multi-core, where will it end?

A number of times I've mentioned the rise of parallel processing and multi-core as well as the effect on development and the kinds of solutions that are consumed . I was talking with some folks at TI the other day about the projections of multi-core...

Published 11-06-2009 8:31 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Infrastructure , Innovation , Trends, Multi-core, Parallel computing

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

Data Virtualization: Essential but Approach with Caution

Data Virtualization is the current marketing banner for Enterprise Information Integration (EII). It is an important adjunct to SOA, but must be undertaken with caution. David Linthicum, Linthicum Group, and Bradley Wright, Progress DataDirect, recently...

Published 11-02-2009 7:34 AM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: SOA , Virtualization, Enterprise Information Integration, data virtualization

It must be getting closer to the end of the year than I thought

I am seeing more of the “ technologies you can’t ignore ” or “ technologies that will change everything ” articles. I usually don’t see a rush of these until December

Published 10-31-2009 4:29 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Trends

Windows 7, now the ball is rolling…

Many home users have Windows 7 in their hands (and more importantly on their machines), almost everything I've heard has been positive. I know HP has been working on preparing for deployments and various support services for Windows 7 , including...

Published 10-30-2009 9:46 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Technology adoption

Robotics capabilities for the next decade

This video provides some impressive examples of the kinds of sensing and robotics capabilities being demonstrated today (e.g. throwing and catching a cell phone). If it takes a few years to make it into production, there are still some tremendous advances...

Published 10-30-2009 4:30 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Sensors, Robotics

Revisiting 3D printing

I've done entries on personal fabrication and 3D printing ( printing organs ...). Until this point, these techniques have been applied mostly to software materials. Now it's been extended to printing 3D objects directly in metal . The current...

Published 10-29-2009 1:26 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Green IT, Manufacturing , Trends, 3D, Efficiency

Tech jobs replaced by cloud

Over the past few months I've seen numerous articles talking about tech jobs being replaced as organizations implement cloud, like this one in CIO magazine . This is really not anything new. When the mainframe came on the scene in the 50s, it replaced...

Published 10-28-2009 11:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Trends, Technology adoption, Adaptation, Protectionism

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