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Sinularity Summit 2007: Will you still love me tomorrow?

 Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Professor, Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future

Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...

Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Additional Resources

A Random Walk Through Intel Developer Forum . . .

A peek into my Intel Developer Forum experience... A short description for a short video: Here is part of my day at Intel Developer Forum. You get to see some of the Intel Insiders in action; plus you meet the founder of...

Tags: Intel Corp., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner WPC conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because of anything Microsoft said -- the combined mea culpa/back atcha delivered by Microsoft's Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President in...

Tags: Desktop, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Gone fishing...

Gone fishing...Gone fishing...Good luck! Make us proud with whatever big catch you get.RE: Gone fishing...Good luck and have fun.Enjoy! I myself am going tomorrow.......for a week in the Pfälzer Wald in Germany:http://www.pfaelzerwald.de/Woods, white wine and smoked trout. Fresh from the clear mountain brooks. The white wine we will buy...

Tags: wine

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

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

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?

How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes?What's that about a camel?It will be interesting to see what kind of "horse" they come up with; I suspect that there will be ample confirmation of "apre Bill, le deluge." That, or Brooks was right all along.RE: How...

Tags: Bill Gates, Torre, Charles Torre

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Graphing the triple constraints of IT failure

Graphing the triple constraints of IT failureProblem with triple constraintsThe problem with applying the classic triple constraints to IT projects (and often other engineering-type projects) is that the trades are generally highly non-linear.Resources often differ in productivity by at least an order of magnitude and the productivity of resources is...

Tags: information technology

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ...

The hits just keep coming for the Rodney Dangerfield of operating systems -- Windows Vista. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back downIt lies with the winner?Microsoft didn't win--it did it's usual thing of lying and cheating to steal a result it couldn't earn. E.g.,http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.htmlNot a standard, yetWith the appeals and the lack of publishing, it's still not a standard.OOXML is largely irrelevant and will "die"ISO...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Sense and respond -- should humans be part of complex event processing?

This week, a report out of the Financial Times cited here in the LA Times said that a bug used in the computer models used by analysts at Moody's Investors Service caused Moody's to award "incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product."...

Tags: Human, Application, Event, SOA, EDA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary

As more details emerge about Microsoft's health strategy, such as its Common User Interface, one thing that becomes clear is that its vision is highly proprietary. While the result is highly attractive, dependence on technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation guarantees the benefits will...

Tags: Vision, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Design Guidance, Quality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The cloud era and open source

My co-blogger Paula has a great piece over at Dan Kuznetsky's shop this morning, concerning an open source cloud computing platform called Enomaly. Everybody has a cloud these days. Google has a cloud. Microsoft has a cloud. Sun has a cloud. Now, you can have a cloud...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Microsoft readies 'Albany' subscription trial for consumers

Microsoft readies 'Albany' subscription trial for consumersStill, WAY too many features. Google is in a much better position herewith a feature set appropriate for new connected, everything sharable world. All of those old baroque complicated features for formatting on 8.5x11 are looking more stupid every day.I recommend trying the offline...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., subscription trial, Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Office, offline feature

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt

An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password. Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines a chilling tale as told by Dustin Brooks, one of his readers. I was looking for...

Tags: Google Gmail, Password, E-mail, Business Ethics, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-10

McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle

Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...

Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out

On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...

Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+data

Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+dataGood luck!Nobody likes to admit to failures much more emotionally satisfying to think of them as partial successes. You might want to check back later to see how he does.Cant access the linkCant access the linkRE: Researcher seeks IT failure dataI'm still not sure this research will get to...

Tags: CANT ACCESS

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House (exe)

Is there a better setting for an adventure game than an old house full of secret rooms and hidden corridors? No! And Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House has plenty of these and more. Begin the journey today. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Treasure, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-02-01

Top-selling artists of the last two decades: Garth Brooks, Beatles, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion

Nielsen SoundScan published the list of top-selling artists for the era that SoundScan existed, 1991 to 2007. Top-selling artists, 1991 - 2007 Garth Brooks 67,402,000 Beatles 55,695,000 Mariah Carey 49,937,000 Celine Dion 49,692,000...

Tags: Nielsen SoundScan, Artist, AM

Blog posts 2008-01-18