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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...
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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, artists and engineers. The construction...
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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 our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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There is a good interview of Tim O'Reilly that validated many of the posts we've made in this blog over the last 5 years. He also published a white paper that goes into more details . The way business value is generated in the future will be changing, as we have the intersection of sensors and...
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A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware running independently managed operating systems. These...
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I was in a discussion the other day with HP's research lead Prith Banerjee . One of the research areas he talked about was Taxonom a data classification SaaS . This project is focused on deriving taxonomies from data. This is always an area I find fascinating, since it is having the computers automate...
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A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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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 ...
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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...
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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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As I was packing for my recent vacation, I realized that I needed to take battery chargers for not just my SmartPhone, but also for my camera, two iPods, as well as my wife’s mobile phone. None of these chargers work on any of the other devices. One solution might be a universal charger, but I...
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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...
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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...
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In Computer magazine , there was a recent article Beyond Asimov: The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics. This article addressed a perspective I've always had - Robots will need to have significantly more "perceptual and reasoning capabilities" in order to even approach being able to follow...
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Every July, the title of the World’s Busiest Airport shifts to a small airport in Wisconsin as between 10,000 and 15,000 air crafts visits the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Airventure fly-in at Oshkosh Wisconsin. Originally started by the Homebuilt Aircraft Movement, pilots who...