A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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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The Next Big Thing
by
Charlie Bess
on 11-20-2009
Filed under: Business value generation , Energy , Green IT, Trends, Applications, attention engineering, Technology adoption, User Interface
Written by Doug Oathout , VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator makes sure the data is accessible and secure, the servers administrator monitors...
I've done entries on personal fabrication and 3D printing ( printing organs ...). Until this point, these techniques have been applied mostly to software materials. Now it's been extended to printing 3D objects directly in metal . The current process is called Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication...
I know I'm probably the millionth person to use that line in the context of data center modernization. But who doesn’t love Kermit? A copy of Newsweek showed up this week with a cover story providing an environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations. Much to my pleasure, HP...
Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a few years ago. I've blogged in the past about...
I have always been interested in space, science fiction and advanced technology, and a lot of things that were fanciful creations when I was growing up, like ubiquitous wireless personal communication devices, have come to pass and are now mainstream. From the early days of space flight, solar cells...