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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Charlie Bess
on 11-23-2009
Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Energy , Trends, Technology adoption, Analytics
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 shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven University...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-20-2009
Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface
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 the number of core hours and increased the amount...
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Charlie Bess
on 11-11-2009
Filed under: Business process modeling , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Trends, Applications, Modeling, business rules, Business-IT Alignment
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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Charlie Bess
on 11-07-2009
Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption
I was reading SD Times the other day while riding an exercise bike at the gym (hey, you have to do something to keep your mind occupied) and I came across an article on the Open Mashup Alliance . I had quite a number of questions about the OMA . Although it is not really a standards body, OMA is working...
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Charlie Bess
on 10-24-2009
Filed under: Business value generation , Standards, Trends, Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Personalization, Flexibility, User Interface
In the October IEEE Spectrum there was an article on How to Beat Information Overload . that I found very timely since, during this past week, there were a number of cases where I saw a question go out to a distribution list asking for technical insight and numerous answers coming back using " reply...
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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Charlie Bess
on 10-09-2009
Filed under: Sensors, Business value generation , Edge computing , Emerging technologies , Technology adoption, Web 2.0, Social networking, Semantic