Enhancing Intel’s Next Generation Drone Platform with the Intel® Context Sensing SDK

The Intel® Context Sensing SDK surfaces the power of the Intel Integrated Sensor Solution and advanced sensor capabilities to power mobile, laptop, IOT and wearable apps. What if the Intel Context Sensing SDK could be used to understand a drone’s environment and even control a drone? That’s the vision we set out to discover in this […]
Intel Developer Forum Showcase 2015

Intel created an awesome week with at IDF 2015, Aug 18-20. We had a fantastic session with the new Intel® Context Sensing SDK for Windows – newly released this week. Here’s a great short summary video of all the fun at IDF 2015! Coverage includes announcements from this years Intel Developer Forum: Intel® RealSense™ technology extends into new platforms and […]
Inventing the Future: Everything Old is New Again (iPhone edition)

I’ve been really excited to see new innovations in interaction with phone, mobile device and wearable interfaces lately. Some of these innovations are doubly exciting…. because I helped invent them, seven years ago, and these new ways of interacting with data and with devices are only now coming to the mass market. For example, it was fascinating to have Walt […]
God and the Robots

I am writing a non-fiction book called God and the Robots. Here’s a first look at my early book proposal. ——————————————– In the summer of 2015, two stories were on the front page of the New York Times. The stories did not appear to be related. The first was an announcement that a group of technical luminaries […]
Intel Context Sensing Solution for IOT and OEMs

The Intel Context Sensing SDK is now deployed on over 100 million IOT devices worldwide. Ned Hayes co-presented with Intel EVP Doug Fisher on Stage at the Intel Developer Forum. See below for the launch video about the Intel Context Sensing SDK.
Trains, planes and Seattle supercommuters

Reprint: Seattle Times For two years, technology product manager Ned Hayes would rise before the sun at 4 a.m. every Monday to drive to SeaTac airport from his home in Olympia. He would hop a flight to San Jose, Calif., and arrive at his workplace in Palo Alto just in time for the weekly 9:30 […]
PARC – GigaOM Mobilize Conference Interview

PARC Mobile Applications: Principal Product Unit Manager At PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), I was the primary product leader in creating the Meshin platform and mobile app. Meshin analyzed communications in real-time and provided insight into your activity with a new user experience on Android and iPhone.
PARC – DICE Interview

PARC Mobile Applications: Principal Product Unit Manager At PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), I was the primary product leader in creating the Meshin platform and mobile app. Meshin analyzed communications in real-time and provided insight into your activity with a new user experience on Android and iPhone.
ARO at Vulcan Labs

Vulcan Labs: Director of Product At an internal startup within Vulcan Labs, I led product management alongside a brilliant engineering and design team. Together, we created “Aro,” a new semantic application that surfaced entities inside of communications and provided a quick and easy user interface to take rapid action. We delivered applications for Paul Allen […]
Future of Technology: A Few Predictions

I recently gave an interview to a pair of researchers about what I thought was coming in future technology. (transcript follows) Thanks to many for re-posting! 1. INVISIBLE A couple things I think are essential about technology. Really good technology should be mostly invisible to the user. Technology in general should be something that lets people get […]