I have been a fan of Robert X. Cringely for a long time. Back in the day I used Bob's Nerds 2.0.1 PBS documentary to train new hires on the basics and history of the Internet. While I am not big enough of a fan to know what the X. is all about I must admit much […]
Continue reading →The first person that I heard espouse "do what you love" was Chris Wanstrath of GitHub fame. He covered it in his Startup Riot keynote a few years back. The guy that said it best was Steve Jobs in his 2005 Stanford commencement address. I am saddened by his resignation as the CEO of Apple. […]
Continue reading →So according to Business Insider Apple just had a "staggering" quarter. Not really surprising. Here's why. A long time ago in a place not too far away a bunch of geeks that I respect a great deal told me to make the switch to Mac as OS X was a Unix based operating system. I […]
Continue reading →For about a year I have been working on a project called LiquidText. LiquidText is a multi-touch document manipulation application for active reading. That sounds a little boring for a technology that is very, very cool. Here's a quick demo. LiquidText is the brainchild of Georgia Tech student Craig Tashman. You can view more detailed demos […]
Continue reading →One of my favorite outings of the year is to walk across the courtyard from ATDC to the Technology Square Research Building for the GVU Showcase. Two floors chock full of cool geeky stuff. Stuff like augmented reality, brain-compter interfaces, tangible media,and wearable computing. there will be over 100 research demonstrations by Georgia Tech faculty […]
Continue reading →So yesterday, according to The New York Times, Apple took about 600k in new iPhone orders. Rock on. At about $200 a pop that is about $120 million in revenue plus whatever the AT&T sub happens to be. Most likely three x that or $360 mill in total. Not bad for a day when you are […]
Continue reading →Rich DeMillo is blogging. He is writing about the interesting things that happen when technology innovation and business execution impact each other. How technologists can get things done in a technology company and what business managers need to know to be successful. When Worlds Collide is about how organizations can succeed when business execution and […]
Continue reading →This is a guest post by John Willis and Curtis Hill of Zabovo John runs the AWSome Cloud Computing meetup group which the ATDC is proud to host. Today John is speaking at the Military Open Source Software Conference at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. This article is based on his presentation. Last week the […]
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Russell Jurney, a technologist and serial entrepreneur. His new startup, Cloud Stenography, will launch later this year. The article is an extension of a simple question on Twitter asking the importance of Map Reduce. Some subjects take much more than 140 characters. The Technical Situation in Brief The advent […]
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