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The FiRe 2008 CTO Design Challenge: And the Solution Is….
30 June 2008Conclusion, with Larry Smarr, Calit2, UCSD; Ron Roberts, Supervisor, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, and military and fire personnel; with Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; Ty Carlson, Architect, SiArch, Microsoft; Kevin Walter, Director, Strategic Planning, Office of CTO, EMC Corporation; hosted by David Brin, Science Fiction Author, Physicist, and Co-Host of TV’s [...]
The FiRe 2008 CTO Design Challenge: Fighting Wildfires
30 June 2008A panel of wildfire experts, including: Ron Roberts, Supervisor, San Diego County Board of Supervisors, and military and fire personnel; with Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (the “FiRe Lab”), UCSD; Per-Kristian Halvorsen, CTO, Intuit; Brian Higbee, Director of SI Strategy, Symantec; Kelly Millsaps, CTO, Avanade; Kevin Walter, Director, Strategic Planning, [...]
The FiRe Mantra
15 June 2008In my opening remarks at Future in Review 2008, I mentioned a kind of mantra that had occurred to me earlier that day, when talking with Kelly Webb about what was going to be different about FiRe this year. Later, Larry Smarr picked up this set of ideas, and used them in his comments from [...]
Black Friday
7 June 2008Friday was tough in world and US markets, no matter what measure you use. Despite their reliance on unreliable numbers, the US govt. still admitted to remarkably high unemployment figures, and oil took twice the largest jump per day of anything seen in decades. The equities markets responded with negative vigor. Perhaps we’ve reached the [...]
The Price of Speculation
4 June 2008For the last few months I have become increasingly concerned that the large, unregulated pile of money sitting in the middle of the global living room (private equity, hedge funds, sovereign funds, private banking trades) is not only dangerous to the world because of its use in CDOs, derivatives, and other goofy instruments, but for [...]
THE U.S. ECONOMY – IS IT FUBAR?
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Some Images from FiRe 2008
22 May 2008Vinod Khosla The 200-Million-Pixel HIPerWall at Calit2, UCSD The BBC’s Stephen Evans talks solar power with Elon Musk and Lyndon Rive Bruce Sterling Kamran Elahian and Larry Brilliant The FiRe Staff kick up their heels Images Copyright (c) 2008, Sandy Huffaker Jr. All rights reserved. Share This Post:
Off to FiRe
16 May 2008Christmas. Cannes in May. Greece in September. Various islands in the summer. Blues night at the Luna, playing hand drums, with Tom Doenges, Steve Keys and Fat James all playing guitar. The perfect putt. An amazing tennis drop shot. Winning a six mile race. They’re all good, but there is just nothing like FiRe. I’ve been going for five years, [...]
Google’s Future
12 May 2008My friend Richard Waters from the FT interviewed me the other day; he wanted to talk about Google’s future, now that the MS deal with Yahoo had apparently fallen through. Specifically, he wanted to talk about whether Google would come up with the next big thing, to keep its momentum going. I reminded Richard that [...]
A New Kind of Computing
8 May 2008Tonight I’ve published a suggestion / proposal for a new model for computing, based on how the cell works, so I’ve called it Cellular Computing. SNS members will be reading about it within the hour. The idea is that we have nearly reached the end of the old linear/multi-linear model, with its one set of top-down instructions in [...]