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Wearable Computing Pioneer Says Google Glass Offers “Killer Existence”

Thad Starner thinks people will soon crave the ultrafast communication that Google Glass makes possible.

Few gadgets have generated as much excitement and hostility as Google Glass, a voice-activated computer-monitor combo worn on eyeglass frames. Now being tested by early adopters, Glass is an ambitious attempt to advance “wearable computing.” It’s also a milestone for Thad Starner, a Georgia Tech professor who has been building and wearing head-mounted computers since 1993. A decade ago, he showed Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin a clunky version of such a device; in 2010 they hired Starner to be a technical lead for Project Glass. He met recently with MIT Technology Review IT editor Rachel Metz.







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Wearable Computing Pioneer Dismisses Google Glass Skeptics

Thad Starner explains why he thinks people will soon crave the ultrafast communication and “killer existence” that Google Glass makes possible.

Few gadgets have generated as much excitement and hostility as Google Glass, a voice-activated computer-monitor combo worn on eyeglass frames. Now being tested by early adopters, Glass is an ambitious attempt to advance “wearable computing.” It’s also a milestone for Thad Starner, a Georgia Tech professor who has been building and wearing head-mounted computers since 1993. A decade ago, he showed Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin a clunky version of such a device; in 2010 they hired Starner to be a technical lead for Project Glass. He met recently with MIT Technology Review IT editor Rachel Metz.







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Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing

An anonymous reader writes “Twilio’s Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons he’s learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: ‘I expected it to be very similar to building mobile applications for Android. In fact, I began learning to build Android applications in preparation. My efforts were for naught, because the Mirror API is a RESTful web service. This means that developing applications for Glass is actually more similar to building a website than it is to building an Android application.’ He also talks about how this fits in with the future of technology: ‘I would argue that Google took the only option available to them. The only truly scalable products of the future will be developer platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Twilio, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Arduino – all of these products have been successful in large part by embracing and empowering their developer communities. No company is omniscient enough to imagine every potential use of their products. This gives developers an immense amount of power to define the success or failure of an entire product line.’”

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The Phosphorous Atom Quantum Computing Machine

An Australian team unveils the fundamental building block of a scalable quantum computer that could be embedded in today’s silicon chips

Back in the late 90s, a physicist in Australia put forward a design for a quantum computer. Bruce Kane suggested that phosphorus atoms embedded in silicon would be the ideal way to store and manipulate quantum information.







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From Our Archive: Wearable Computing, Long Before Google Glass

What was it like to use a wearable computer back in 1999?

 







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Google and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab

The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will use the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two.

Quantum computing took a giant leap forward on the world stage today as NASA and Google, in partnership with a consortium of universities, launched an initiative to investigate how the technology might lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.







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Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo

ubaloIt’s only been a few weeks since the folks behind music charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn’t done snapping up startups just yet. Ubalo CEO Jacob Mattingly and CTO Ian Downes announced earlier today via blog post that the folks at Twitter have agreed to acquire the scalable computing technology they’ve been working on for the past two years, and that the four person Ubalo team would officially join the Twitter flock.
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ORBX streaming tech could revolutionize computing

The first notes in a dirge for traditional computing have been sounded, says Brendan Eich, the inventor of JavaScript — and he couldn’t be happier. [Read more]

    




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Distro Issue 89: With Google Glass, is the future of wearable computing finally in sight?

Distro Issue 89 With Google Glass, is the future of wearable computing finally in sight

Google has begun shipping the Explorer Edition of its high-tech headset to a select few over the past week. In a brand new edition of our e-magazine, Tim Stevens gives Google Glass the full review treatment, chronicles life behind the lens for a week and sits down with Google Ventures’ Bill Maris for a chat on the device. We also get cozy with Google Now for iOS in Hands-On, ogle more of Mission Workshop’s goods in Eyes-On and PlayJam CEO Jasper Smith tackles the Q&A. You can probably take it from here, but just in case, all of the download sources are down below for snatchin’ up a copy.

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Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells

Harvards Clean Energy Project is conducting a study on millions of potential chemical structures and has identified next-generation organic solar cell material.
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Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again

Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues.
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2.4B computing devices to ship this year, Gartner says

Almost 2.4 billion computers, tablets and cell phones will ship this year, according to estimates from Gartner.
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This Modular Tablet Could Be the Future of Gaming — and Computing

Lessons from the Razer Edge, the promising new gaming tablet.

The Razer Edge, a new gaming tablet running Windows 8, sure looks like the future of computing. The key is its modularity–its ability to switch-hit, and switch-hit again, reinventing itself as a handheld gaming device, a tablet, a console, a computer, right before your eyes. CNET calls it, aptly, the “Swiss Army gaming tablet.”







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Five Opportunities for Mobile Computing

Thousands of startup companies see mobile computing as their chance to strike it big. We picked five.

Some 50 mobile-computing startup companies get funded by investors each month in the United States, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Around the world, tens of thousands more entrepreneurs are dreaming and coding and trying to invent something big.







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How Smart Watches and Phablets Fulfill A 20-Year-Old Prophecy about Ubiquitous Computing

Mark Weiser, who coined the term “ubiquitous computing,” foresaw current device trends decades ago.

“Tabs, pads, and boards.” The phrase may sound like a piece of techno-buzzy cud coughed up at a TEDx or SXSW talk, but it’s actually a precise description of current hardware trends made 22 years ago by a chief scientist at Xerox PARC. That scientist, the late Mark Weiser, was talking about his then-new concept of “ubiquitous computing”: the idea that cheap connectivity and networked devices would liberate “computing” from mainframes and desktop boxes and integrate it into people’s everyday lives. But how? What would that actually look like? Weiser sketched out three basic tiers of ubiquitous computing devices based on interactive display technology: tabs (small, wearable); pads (handheld, mobile); boards (large, fixed). 







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Netflix challenges developers to improve cloud computing, offers $100,000

Netflix is looking to boost the reality of cloud computing via its OSS, taking it to the next level and helping it realize its potential. How is it doing this? Via its Netflix Cloud Prize competition, which it is using to challenge developers across the world to come up with improvements in secure, reliable, and

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Ask Slashdot: Building a Cheap Computing Cluster?

New submitter jackdotwa writes “Machines in our computer lab are periodically retired, and we have decided to recycle them and put them to work on combinatorial problems. I’ve spent some time trawling the web (this Beowulf cluster link proved very instructive) but have a few reservations regarding the basic design and air-flow. Our goal is to do this cheaply but also to do it in a space-conserving fashion. We have 14 E8000 Core2 Duo machines that we wish to remove from their cases and place side-by-side, along with their power supply units, on rackmount trays within a 42U (19″, 1000mm deep) cabinet.” Read on for more details on the project, including some helpful pictures and specific questions.

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Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started

Smartphones, tablets, and wireless data plans are already a trillion-dollar business. It’s just the beginning.

Mobile computers are spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history. In the United States, smartphones have even begun reaching the group of relative technophobes that consumer researchers call the “late majority.” About half of mobile-phone users now have one.







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How “Bullet Time” Will Revolutionise Exascale Computing

The famous Hollywood filming technique will change the way we access the huge computer simulations of the future, say computer scientists







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Omek’s Gestural Interface Makes Perceptual Computing Human-Friendly

By studying human factors (shocking!), an Israeli company makes close-range gestural input make sense.

I recently reviewed Intel’s prototype “perceptual computing” interface, and while the product vision was compelling, the user experience needed a lot of work. Just because you can plop a depth camera on top of your laptop and wave your hands in front of the screen, does that mean you should? Luckily, an Israeli company called Omek Interactive has applied some actual thought and research toward answering this question. Their “Arc Menu” is the first close-range, consumer-grade gestural UI I’ve seen that takes comfort and basic ergonomics into account. Here’s a demo the company did at CES for LazyTechGuys:







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Does Gestural Computing Break Fitts’ Law?

Fitts’ Law has quantified human-computer interaction for decades. But is it still relevant in a post-GUI world?

You’ve probably never heard of Fitts’ Law, but if you’ve used a computer in the past 25 years, you’ve felt its influence. Fitts’ Law mathematically models how quickly you can point to something–whether it’s with your finger, or with a device like a mouse. It’s a foundational principle of human-computer interaction in the WIMP era–“windows, icons, menus, pointer”–pioneered by Xerox PARC and made mainstream by the original Macintosh. It says that moving a pointer a short distance to a large target is faster than moving a larger distance to a smaller target. This has a distinctly “no duh” flavor to it, but Fitts’ Law has many fascinating and subtle implications for GUI design. If you ever wondered why Apple puts its menu across the top of the screen (instead of anchoring menus to individual windows, like Microsoft does), Fitts’ Law is the reason.







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China’s Computing Giants Eye Overseas Growth in 2013

The country’s domestic market will also see continued growth, fueled by a boom in mobile and cloud computing.

According to the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, those born in the year of the Dragon are blessed with power and good fortune. 2012 was certainly an auspicious year for the country’s technology industry, as China’s rise to become the planet’s preëminent technology producer and consumer continued apace.







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China’s Computing Giants Eyes Overseas Growth in 2013

The country’s domestic market will also see continued growth, fueled by a boom in mobile and cloud computing.

According to the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, those born in the year of the Dragon are blessed with power and good fortune. 2012 was certainly an auspicious year for the country’s technology industry, as China’s rise to become the planet’s preëminent technology producer and consumer continued apace.







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Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device?

cashman73 writes “My mother’s six year old desktop computer finally bit the dust due to an electrical surge. It’s out-of-warranty, and not really worth fixing. Plus, I’m 2,500 miles and two time zones away, so I can’t exactly troubleshoot things from here. I recently got a new tablet, and even 80% of the things I do are done easier with it. Plus, she really likes the size, convenience, portability, and the screen. Virtually everything she does is simple web browsing, email, light photo sharing but no heavy editing, and other simple tasks. We’re thinking that using a tablet as her sole ‘computer’ might be the best solution here. What are other Slashdotter’s experiences using tablets without a separate desktop computer?”

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MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing

alphadogg writes “Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny crystal of a rare mineral that took 10 months to make, the researchers for the first time have demonstrated a magnetic state called a QSL (quantum spin liquid), according to MIT physics professor Young Lee. He is the lead author of a paper on their findings, which is set to be published in the journal Nature this week. Theorists had said QSLs might exist, but one had never been demonstrated before. ‘We think it’s pretty important,’ Lee said, adding that he would let his peers be the ultimate judges.”

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MIT research shows new magnetic state that could aid quantum computing

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies.
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Akamai’s New CEO Aims to Speed Up Mobile Computing

Co-founder—and now CEO—Tom Leighton plans data-prioritization trials with Ericsson and massive use of distributed devices for transmitting video.

As Tom Leighton prepares to take over as CEO at Akamai Technologies—the company he co-founded 14 years ago to optimize how Web traffic is delivered—he’s got mobile data on his mind and a suite of new technologies in the wings.







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Four Charts That Illustrate The Transformation of Personal Computing

You’ve probably already heard or read about the massive shift to mobile computing that is underway. But a picture’s worth a thousand words.

Venture capitalist Mary Meeker gave her year-end “State of the Internet” presentation last week, to much geeky fanfare. In her talk, Meeker, who works for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, used several telling charts to reiterate something we’ve known for a while: the trend shaping the Web is the explosion in popularity of connected mobile devices.







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Computing with Light

A breakthrough from IBM could signal a future for computing.







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Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing



eldavojohn writes “Mojang’s Marcus Persson (better known as ‘Notch’) has answered quite a few questions in an interview with PC Gamer about his new game 0x10c. Since its announcement, there’s been very few details about game play aside from the DCPU-16 and art tests. But in this interview, Notch has revealed quite a bit about how the game will function and non-final ideas he has for either a monthly fee to play in a ‘multiverse’ or micropayments. He talks about a custom OS people are working on to load into the game’s CPU as well as a an in-game 3D printer that will allow you to make virtual objects. When asked about Kickstarter and his Oculus dev kit, Notch said ‘Definitely going to make it work in 0x10c no matter what’ and his account of using the Oculus Rift sounds more than promising for the VR Device. When asked about Linux he said, ‘[Linux] is wonderful. I think we need to have it, and it’s a shame that more people, including myself, don’t use it. It’s gotten easier and friendlier.’ When asked about Microsoft he said, ‘I use their OS – Windows 7 is an amazing operating system in my opinion and of course there’s the Xbox, which I love. I’m sure Bing is going to take off and save them. [Editor's note: Notch is smiling mischievously as he says this.]‘”

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China moves to beat U.S. in exascale computing

U.S. efforts to develop the next-generation high performance computing platform are lagging, which could give China an opening to develop an exascale system first.
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NEC outs cloud computing facial recognition service for merchants

NEC outs $  880 facial recognition system, lets merchants track clients with only a PC and video camera

NEC has launched a $ 880 per month service in Japan that lets merchants profile customers using just a PC and video camera. The system uses facial recognition powered by the company’s cloud computing service to estimate the gender and age of clients, along with the frequency of their shopping expeditions across multiple locations. The firm developed the “NeoFace” tracking software in-house, claiming it was the highest ranked facial recognition system in NIST and that it plans to use it for other services like “intruder surveillance” in the future. NEC added that face data is encrypted so it can’t be “inadvertently disclosed,” and is strictly to help retailers fine-tune their marketing strategies. After watching the system pick off face after face in the video after the break, we just hope it doesn’t go rogue.

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Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model, Says Rackspace CTO



Nerval’s Lobster writes “Companies are rushing to lock customer data into their specific walled gardens, Rackspace CTO John Engates argued in an interview after a Cloud Expo keynote in Silicon Valley. That makes it more important than ever to ensure that the cloud undergirding all the various functions of daily life remains open. ‘These companies have grown up in the era of enterprise software and they’re addicted to enterprise software margins, magnitudes more profitable than what we make as a hosting company,’ he said. ‘Now you have software companies embracing cloud computing and taking the same enterprise-software playbook they’ve had for years and trying to run it in the cloud.’ Ultimately, he added, cloud computing needs to adopt the Linux model. ‘Linux opened it up and gave you vendor choice, with numerous vendors bringing their own strengths to the table.’”

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Where is cloud computing heading in 2013?

Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year.
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As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing

As PC sales decline and smartphone and tablet sales climb, the world of computing is poised for a dramatic shift. While mobile users do, in fact, 'compute' with their devices, application data and functionality actually reside in the cloud. To accommodate this, columnist Bernard Golden says, the cloud will have to grow in ways that few can currently comprehend.
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Bill Gates: “Windows 8 Is Key To Where Personal Computing Is Going”

bill-gates-win8-videoMicrosoft co-founder and current chairman Bill Gates recently sat down with the editor of Microsoft’s own Next blog Steve Clayton to talk about Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and the Surface tablet. Unsurprisingly, Gates was pretty upbeat about all of the company’s upcoming product and argued that “Windows 8 is key to where personal computing is going.”
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How Will Salesforce Adapt To The Next Platform Shift: Mobile Computing?

BruceCleveland_headshotEditor’s note: Bruce Cleveland is a General Partner with InterWest Partners focused on software and services sector investments with an emphasis on cloud computing, mobile and analytical applications.

Most of us are familiar with the adage by George Santayana, who, in his biography said, ”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” You may recognize it as, “Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.” Either way, I agree.

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The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing

With funding from the Amazon founder and the CIA’s investment arm, the Canadian company D-Wave is gaining momentum for its revolutionary approach to computing.

Inside a blocky building in a Vancouver suburb, across the street from a dowdy McDonald’s, is a place chilled colder than anywhere in the natural universe. Inside that is a computer processor that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel, believe can tap the quirks of quantum mechanics to unleash more computing power than any conventional computer chip. Bezos and In-Q-Tel are in a group of investors who are betting $ 30 million on this prospect.







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Intel: PC moves into a new computing spectrum

The PC isn’t in as great a decline as many have predicted. It’s just becoming part of a new spectrum of computing, according to Intel researcher and fellow Genevieve Bell.
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Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing



Cory Doctorow has posted the content of his talk delivered at Google this month on what he calls the coming civil war over general purpose computing. He neatly crystallizes the problem with certain types of (widely called-for) regulation of devices and the software they run — and they all run software. The ability to stop a general purpose computer from doing nearly anything (running code without permission from the mothership, or requiring an authorities-only engine kill switch, or preventing a car from speeding away), he says boils down to a demand: “Make me a general-purpose computer that runs all programs except for one program that freaks me out.”

“But there’s a problem. We don’t know how to make a computer that can run all the programs we can compile except for whichever one pisses off a regulator, or disrupts a business model, or abets a criminal. The closest approximation we have for such a device is a computer with spyware on it— a computer that, if you do the wrong thing, can intercede and say, ‘I can’t let you do that, Dave.’”

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Gartner Buzzword Tracker Says “Cloud Computing” Still on Hype Wave



If you’re sick of the term “cloud” to refer to pretty much anything on “the internet” and consider that phrase a symptom of useless MBA, PHB, PowerPoint talking points oozing where they don’t belong, sorry — you’ll probably have to endure it for a while yet. Nerval’s Lobster writes that Gartner’s 2012 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies says that “Cloud computing” (along with a few other terms, such as “Near Field Communication” and “media tablets”) is not just alive but growing.

“Gartner uses the report to monitor the rise, maturity and decline of certain terms and concepts, the better for corporate strategists and planners to predict how things will trend over the next few months or years. As part of the report, Gartner’s analysts have built a Hype Cycle which positions technologies on a graph tracing their rise, overexposure, inevitable fall, and eventual rehabilitation as quiet, productive, well-integrated, thoroughly un-buzz-worthy technologies. Right now, Gartner views hybrid cloud computing, Big Data, crowdsourcing, and the ‘Internet of Things’ as on the rise, while private cloud computing, social analytics and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon are coasting at the Peak of Inflated Expectations.”

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Cloud Computing Company Joyent Leaves Early Supporters Out In The Cold

joyentBack in 2006, cloud computing company Joyent offered a lifetime subscription to bundle of hosting services for a one time fee of $ 500. Now, according to an e-mail sent to customers, Joyent is pulling the plug on those lifetime accounts. Customers are predictably upset, but not for the reasons you might expect.
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Valve’s Gabe Newell talks wearable computing, touch and tongues

When he’s not trash-talking Windows 8, Valve’s Gabe Newell is pondering next-gen wearable computing interfaces and playing with $ 70,000 augmented reality headsets, the outspoken exec has revealed. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference this week, Valve co-founder and ex-Microsoftie Newell presented head-up display lag and issues of input and control for wearables as the

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Cloud computing journey starts with the data centre

In a special series, Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012.
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NVIDIA scores $12.4 million contract from the DOE to help FastForward exascale computing

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Sick and tired of waiting around for some exascale computing? So’s the Department of Energy. The agency has offered up a $ 12.4 million contract to NVIDIA as part of its FastForward program, an attempt help speed up exascale development. The chipmaker will be using the two-year contract to help develop architecture for an exascale computer that operates at a “reasonable power level,” in order to “advance the frontiers of science.” Possible implications for exascale computing include the study of climate change, development of efficient engines, the search for disease cures, according to NVIDIA — not to mention “reasons of national security and economic competitiveness.”

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Google Glass launches new age of personal computing

If Google’s latest computing plan stays on track, the definition of a computer could broaden significantly.
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‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,’ Says Google Glass Team



An anonymous reader writes “In an interview with Wired, Google’s Steve Lee and Babak Parviz spoke about how they’ve come to use Project Glass in their lives, and where they expect the mobile computing industry to go in the near future. ‘We’ve long thought the camera’s important, but since we’ve started using this in public and with our family and friends and in real situations, not just hidden in the Google lab, we’ve truly seen the power of being hands-free. … It’s my expectation that in three to five years it will actually look unusual and awkward when we view someone holding an object in their hand and looking down at it. Wearable computing will become the norm.’”

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Alan Turing, father of modern computing, gets Google tribute

Google is celebrating a milestone birthday of one of the most important people in the world of computing. It’s a posthumous celebration, though. Alan Turing, a man who paved the way for what would become the era of computing, was born 100 years ago this month. In addition to creating a special doodle in Turing’s

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How Alan Turing set the rules for computing

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born.
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Will The Microsoft Surface Tablet Redefine Mobile Computing?

surfaceMicrosoft just took the wraps off the all new Microsoft Surface. Even though the name is familiar this is an entirely new product. Simply put, the Surface is a Windows 8 tablet. But it seems so much more. In fact, perhaps I’m still a little drunk on Microsoft Kool-Aid, but the Surface seems like the next generation of mobile computing. While Surface might not kill the iPad, it might revive Microsoft.

To be clear, the Surface is Microsoft’s hardware. This is a not a Dell or HP tablet running Microsoft’s software. Microsoft clearly designed this tablet to best showcase Windows 8. The tablet itself seems fantastic. Compared to the iPad, it’s a bit utilitarian with hard lines, full size I/O ports, and heat vents. But it also seems like a serious tablet rather than a plaything.
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