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 power plugs with a USB port, running Linux. There...
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. This week, while reading and working out (that's...
I've been in a number of discussions lately where the folks were looking at cloud computing as just a continuation of the current computing paradigm. I firmly believe that is not the case . In the February issue of IEEE Spectrum , there is an article titled " Cellphones for Science ", which...
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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 conference centers and the like." But then...
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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 of economic conditions). The same thing could...
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. It this situation, the investments in technology...
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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. He expressed an " assembly line " view...
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There have been a number of entries in this blog on the use of simulation and modeling and the effect on IT of the future. I've seen a number of modeling tools, but this week, (as part of EDS' Top Gun Program with Oracle ), I was able to see some of the more recent work on the BPA Suite . The...
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One of the predictions I had for 2008 was for fundamental changes in the user interface. This article describes efforts underway to provide a smarter automotive dashboard, addressing some of the attention engineering concerns I’ve discussed before. A team from the Technical University of Berlin found...