Category Archives: Milwaukee

Apple design in 30 years

March 3rd, 2010

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 [...]

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Tagged apple, apple design, business, Design, design technology, fan boy, system engineer, Technology, visual, visualization

Google: Think BIG with a gig

February 11th, 2010

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,

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Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube

Large Hadron Collider’s big network

January 19th, 2010

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 [...]

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Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education (GAE) this collection provides an excellent solution for schools [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

Hello world

September 20th, 2009

Over the past 30 days I have taken a break from blogging. My daughter Zofia was born two weeks ago and the demands on my time did not permit me to blog. She was born September 3rd 2009 at 7:52am CST. Zofia arrived 9.2 lbs and measured 20 inches from head to toe. She is [...]

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BMW, Milwaukee and the Calatrava

August 14th, 2009

There is more to come from BMW and their Milwaukee-inspired work launching their new GT 5 Series. Tags: BMW, Milwaukee, marketing, product launch, gran turismo, innovation, ideas, business, trends

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BMW, Milwaukee and Santiago Calatrava

July 24th, 2009

BMW’s upcoming 5 Series GT photographed against Santiago Calatrava’s work in Milwaukee….but you have to look very close to figure it out.

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Tagged BMW, bmw photo, Design, donkasprzak, Interactive, Milwaukee, milwaukee art museum, mov quicktime, photo, quicktime, santiago calatrava, wings

My latest read: Who Controls the Internet?

June 1st, 2009

Think the internet is still the wild west? Think again. In a new update of Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World law professors Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu share how the long arm of foreign governments still can stretch the illusion that the internet (and thereby globalization) are shrinking the world. On the [...]

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Tagged borderless world, china, cisco, content, dns, ebay, european union, filtering, Globalization, government control, hacker, icann, k12, knowledge, law professors, law schools, legal standpoint, microsoft, policy, Reading, rules of the internet, school district, Technology, tom friedman

Internet2 Spring Meeting netcast

April 29th, 2009

Today begins Internet2’s Spring Member meeting. The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.

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Tagged doug van houweling, Education, Internet2, Network, Technology

Grandma’s iPhone

April 17th, 2009

Did my 95 year old Grandmother think about this when I showed her my iPhone? Could she have imagined such a device as a child? Wonder what my little son will write about the future… Tags: smartphone, IPv6, network, advanced technologies, trends

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