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Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit

A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...

Tags: Fortress, Sun Microsystems Inc., Danny Hillis, Guy Steele

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Applied Minds ‘remixing' at Etech

This morning at Etech, Danny Hillis blew minds with a taste of the consulting and design work done at his current venture, Applied Minds. He showed pictures and video of six and four-legged mobile robots, including one in the form of a snake that moved exactly like one. Sure,"it's possible...

Tags: Danny Hillis, Applied Minds, ETech

Blog posts 2005-03-15

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Who will be the nation's CTO?

John Doerr left and John Heilemann at Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 conference, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr recommended Sun cofounder Bill Joy or tech gadfly Danny Hillis for the position of the nation's chief technology officer, News.com's Rafe Needlman reports. On...

Tags: Job, Chief Technology Officer, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Web 2.0 Summit - reflections after a trans-Atlantic flight and a day off!

Last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was pretty intense, all things considered. It's therefore lucky that this week is the Half Term school holiday in this particular corner of the UK, and peppered with days off to do various non-work things. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

The Semantic wedge: Freebase, Powerset and Twine

Danny Hillis Metaweb, Barney Pell Powerset and Nova Spivack Radar Networks shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit. All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped...

Tags: Web, Data, Powerset, Twine, Freebase, Freebase Database, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Metaweb: Creating the world's searchable global brain

One of the stealthy semantic Web startups, Metaweb Technologies revealed its product strategy. According to John Markoffs New York Times story, Metaweb is developing Freebase, "a centralized repository that is more like a digital almanac," in contrast to the distributed card catalog that is the current way Web is searched....

Tags: Search, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-03-09

ETech summary, day 1

ETech has lived up to its reputation for delivering new and interesting ideas. The morning was filled with short lightening talks (what O'Reilly calls "higher order bits) by some of the people making technology, including a talk by Danny Hillis on Applied Minds and an announcement of a new...

Tags: RSS, Mozilla Firefox

Blog posts 2005-03-15

ETech summary, day 1

ETech has lived up to its reputation for delivering new and interesting ideas. The morning was filled with short lightening talks (what O'Reilly calls "higher order bits) by some of the people making technology, including a talk by Danny Hillis on Applied Minds and an announcement of a new...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, RSS

Blog posts 2005-03-15

Execs place bets on tech's future

At PCForum, Microsoft's Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt lead The Long Bets Foundation--Silicon Valley futurists who make H.G. Wells-type predictions. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--In 28 years, commercial airline passengers will routinely fly in pilotless airplanes. Sound ludicrous? Not to Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Craig Mundie,...

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