http://www.iftf.org/iasp , interesting overview from researcher Anthony Townsend and team at the Institute for the Future. Discusses growth areas for economic development and technical innovation over the next 20 years. Sharp presentation here…
This should be fun (and give the Wii – which I own – a run for its money). Gestures appear to be a rapidly growing new paradigm in UI control. The XBox is enabling full-body motion recognition plus speech/voice recognition. Check out the video to see it in action…
Timely, per my last post. With myriad information sources that people sift through, context and reliability are becoming increasingly important to search – both on the web and in the enterprise. Common practice to date has been for a user to click through tens or hundreds (or more) search results of meta-tagged information trying to determine the best [...]
wolfram|alpha is worth a look and quite cool. With an emphasis on knowledge-based computing, the tool currently processes over 10 trillion pieces of information (which are continuously updated), handles free form, natural language query, and provides real-time results. You can also check out Stephen Wolfram’s overview of the tool here (or watch below). As he states, the project is in its infancy [...]
The mouse, keyboard, and (dare I say) remote control have long dominated human computer interaction while the touch screen (i.e. Surface) and tablet technology, have emerged in recent years, as more human-centric interactions. In a similar vain to Johnny Mnemonic or Minority Report, gestures and manipulation of virtual objects are quickly evolving as an effective means to interact [...]
Prior to the holidays, Guy gave a presentation on innovation at the one year anniversary event for Microsoft and Novell. Shortly after, he was gracious enough to answer a few questions for me about innovation, technology, and his personal life. If you’re not familiar with Guy, I would start here http://www.guykawasaki.com.
Guy, thanks again for your [...]
I came across a post today on Sam Larbi’s blog entitled Save your job: understand the basics of business. Its a short post that gets to the heart of something that I have been thinking about for quite some time: how should engineers think about their role relative to the strategic direction of their organization? [...]
