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- How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com
- The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
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Category Archives: Innovation
Apple design in 30 years
I have been very fortunate to have worked at Apple as a System Engineer during the introduction of some of the products in this visualization. Apple has really moved into the arena of design + technology as their recent products have proved…since so many companies both in and out of the computer business have stolen [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Kasprzak, Milwaukee, Smartphone, Tablet, Technology
Tagged apple, apple design, business, Design, design technology, fan boy, system engineer, Technology, visual, visualization
Transforming how we experience imaging
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging.
Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, HighRes, Interactive, Media Players, Network, OpenSource, Rich media, Streaming, TED, Technology, Virtual Reality
Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED
Google: Think BIG with a gig
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers.
Link to website
Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Milwaukee, Network, Streaming, Technology
Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube
My latest read – Ahead of the Curve
The title of Philip Delves Broughton’s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I pulled it from my wish list and dropped it into my cart. It was not [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Reading, green
Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital
My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Reading, Technology, green
Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Switch – Chapter 1 review
Chip and Dan Heath wrote Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and it was quickly listed as one of the top 100 business books of 2007….I couldn’t agree more. They launched a website dedicated to the lessons of Made to Stick and continued their book’s conversations online.
In mid 2009 it was [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Reading
Tagged brains, business books, business today, community, emotional sides, fundamental research, group, heath brothers, human psychology, made to stick, organization, research
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet.
In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, Technology, WiscNet
Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices
Visualization changes everything
Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Interactive, Media Players, OpenSource, Reading, Rich media, TED
Tagged change, information, politics, visual, visualization
Microsoft’s Tablet ?
According to the UK Telegraph: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his presentation.
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Tablet, CES, media player, magazine, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Media Players, Reading, Tablet, Technology
Tagged consumer electronics show, consumer electronics show in las vegas, crowds, microsoft, microsoft chief executive, steve ballmer, Tablet, telegraph
OLPC – The mission
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Network, OLPC, OpenSource, Technology, green
Tagged child empowerment, laptop, laptop per child, OLPC, one laptop per child