Technology and the Brick and Mortar Retail Revolution: An Interview with Intel’s Joe Jensen
2020 was a rough year for brick and mortar retail. A record 12,000 stores closed in the US last year, a 20% increase over the number of store closures in 2019. But for as disastrous as the pandemic has been for brick and mortar, the future may prove to be a golden opportunity for the industry. The […]
Context Continues — Dell Wake on Approach (WOA)
I was recently surprised to discover that my seminal work on the Context Sensing system at Intel has continued to make waves in the computing world. Over five years at Intel, I orchestrated, planned, and led multiple teams around the key concepts in context awareness for personal computing. Exciting to see our work now installed […]
Intel Context Sensing: Wins CES 2019 Innovation Award
I’m excited to note that the Dell Latitude 7400 2 won a CES Innovation Award at CES 2019, partially because of the stellar features that I helped to design and implement at Intel as leader of the Intel Context Sensing team. The Dell Latitude 7400 2 -in-1 is the world’s smallest commercial 14” 2-in-1 targeting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.