The Biometric Threat – Some Preventative Measures
| New post published by Technica Curiosa. Complete article here >>We live in an age where personal information is difficult to protect, and passwords are far from unbreakable. Recently, IBM surveyed nearly 4,000 people and learned that 67% are comfortable using biometrics, and 87% would be comfortable using biometric authentication in the future. Millennials are particularly comfortable with […]
The Oly Arts Success Story: $350K exit
Founder of local multi-platform publication group successfully sells off publication unit to local entrepreneur Coverage included: The Olympian: Founder Sells to Local Marketing Leader Sound Sound Business: Oly Arts Bought by Local Publisher OLY ARTS, the three-year-old multiplatform publication focused on arts and cultural events in Thurston County and surrounding regions, announced today that the […]
AI, Ethics and Algorithms
An important talk at Gluecon this year, outlining some of the basic considerations around ethical decision-making and the complications that may result when artificial intelligence is chosen as a primary method for a system to learn and take semi-autonomous action.
Google I/O Day Zero 2018
I love going to developer shows and talking to software engineers about the toolsets our teams develop at Intel. For me, since I spend so much of my time in meetings and planning sessions, it is a refreshing opportunity to re-engage with the actual use cases and the actual developer customers who use our tools. […]
TED Talk: Balancing Life in Writing and Tech
I recently had the opportunity to talk at some length with an engaged set of students. (I talk regularly to school groups, and if you’d like to book me to talk to your school group, you can contact my booking agent here.) We discussed both my high tech career as well as my writing, and […]
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.