Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2007
I recommend this series of lectures by the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Amory Lovins. He delivered the lectures at Stanford, and they’re now hosted at the Social Innovation Conversations site.
Energy Efficiency in Transportation
Energy Efficiency in Industry
Energy Efficient Design For Buildings
I first came across these lectures on Jon Udell’s blog. Udell does a good job of [...]
Posted in MATLAB on Oct 9th, 2007
Tim O’Reilly likes to quote William Gibson when he describes his approach to predicting the future: “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” In other words, if you can just find the people (O’Reilly calls them alpha geeks) who are leading the way, you can serve yourself a tasty slice of future [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2006
I don’t know if you buy into the Web 2.0 meme, but I do. There’s an amazing amount of good stuff to keep up with these days. It’s getting ever easier to create, package, route, re-package, re-route, and consume information. Mashups, those unanticipated combinations of multiple websites, were a good indication that things were getting [...]
