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 exquisitely sensitive detectors." This kind...
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 stream processing architecture and the familiar ...
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. I agree that this is a concern, but as presented...
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 lens . Although Terminator view displays can't...
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 much common office software take advantage of it...
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 camera it is now possible to combine a regular...
The July 2009 edition of the Wired has an article titled " Waste is Good ," and it focuses on an area I've talked about on this blog numerous times. As we enter the age of data by having a wired edge of the enterprise during the abundance for cloud computing (from cloud), we will use those...
Microsoft recently announced a new version of its Zune music player , a touch-screen player called the Zune HD . They also announced a Zune extension into the Xbox Live platform, with goal to "create a game-changing entertainment experience". The Zune HD features a built-in HD radio receiver...
Anyone who has been working with IT for a while recognizes that there are pendulum-like shifts from centralized to distributed computing. The centralized approach is more orderly with greater hierarchical control. The distributed approach tries to be flexible and more efficient with time - at the cost...
As we are getting ready to enter the confirmation process for John Roberts to the supreme court, and now with the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist , it became clear that the kind of world that will exist in the future may not be what the framers of the constitution envisioned. Will Stare Decisis survive...