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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...
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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 as videos on the link above. I just had a...
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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...
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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...
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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 intersection of those technologies with other advances...
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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 learning new development tools and tackling projects...
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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. What would be really interesting is a similar...
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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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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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12-29-2008
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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 - Although mobile definitely has undergone some...
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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 their list of 2009 IT trends . It seemed a bit...
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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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07-21-2008
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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 in Technology Review shows an example processor...
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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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03-08-2008
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Nokia has unveiled "Morph" a concept phone based on using nanotechnology capabilities (e.g., shape, color changing). Many times when people hear about nanotechnology they wonder what difference it could make for them personally. The concept video shows how future mobile devices will allow users...