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CMOS sensor inventor Eric Fossum discusses digital image sensors: Digital Photography Review
Slight change of pace this week leading up to the Thanksgiving Holiday. There’s a great video out there for all to see from the creator of the CMOS imaging chip (second generation digital imaging device according to his slides). Dr. Eric Fossum talks a little about the implications of cheap image senors, then talks about…
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Intel Responds to Calxeda/HP ARM Server News (Wired.com)
Wired.com isn’t the best at following the Cloud Data Industry. In fact at least they partially want to keep their advertisers happy so they will publish a Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt raising response direct from an Intel PR Engineer. Happily the Intel folks aren’t even fully aware of what people are doing with their SeaMicro…
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ARM specs out first 64-bit RISC chips • The Register
With the announcements recently from Calxeda and HP now ARM is jumping back into the limelight. They are working on the next version of the ARM architecture which will feature a 64bit clean design (which some speculated was going to arrive with ARM-15). Although the current version of the ARM architecture and support 40bit data…
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HP hooks up with Calxeda to form server ARMy • The Register
By itself Calxeda has made some big plans attempting to create computers like the SeaMicro SM10000. But the ability to manufacture on any scale and then sell that product is a bit limited. But as of today HP has partnered with Calxeda to sell product and help design a server using the reference design for…
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Always nice to get an update on the elmcity project from Jon Udell. It is the ‘calendar’ of calendars and a great project showing how one can leverage open data, but at the same time confront some technological challenges too. Jon Udell As I review and improve the elmcity hubs in selected cities, I am…
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U.S. Requests for Google User Data Spike 29 Percent in Six Months | Threat Level | Wired.com
In a fight between Superman and Spiderman who would win? That’s a game we used to play as kids. Nowadays the question is more like in a fight between your personal data and a Government request to Google to access that data who would win? All evidence points to you being the loser. Read On:
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Originally posted on High Tech History: This past June, fellow High Tech History writer Gil Press wrote an entry in recognition of International Business Machines’ centennial. In the interim, I came across a documentary created by noted filmmaker Errol Morris for IBM that draws on the experiences of, among others, the corporation’s former technicians and executives to tell…
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Originally posted on Erik Duval's Weblog: Wolfgang Greller made some interesting comments on his blog about an interview with me on Learning Analytics. I’m a bit puzzled by his remark that Duval being a computer scientist strongly believes in the power of data and the revelations it holds. Actually, I am not sure what would be…
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Pioneering Campus CIOs Say Necessity Drives Shift to Cloud — Campus Technology
Pioneering Campus CIOs Say Necessity Drives Shift to Cloud By David Raths 10/25/11 A recent survey of campus IT leaders suggested that most colleges and universities are still gun shy about cloud computing. Yet if attendance at conference meetings is any gauge, there is widespread curiosity about the experience of early adopters. via Pioneering Campus…
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AnandTech – ARM & Cadence Tape Out 20nm Cortex A15 Test Chip
In past readings of announcements and analysis of announcements from ARM and Calxeda, I got the impression everyone was looking forward to ARM-15 4core cpus that had 64bit capability, specially the 64-bit addressing for large amounts of DRAM. Well now the first test chip for ARM-15 has been announced. And the timescale for the production…
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