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Intel’s Craig Barrett: Malaysia’s on Track

Jason Lopez — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:11:37 +0000

Intel’s Craig Barrett says that private companies can’t go it alone when trying to make a difference in developing markets, and neither can governments. In a visit to Malaysia, the chairman of the chip giant stopped off at Penang, where the company has committed itself to help local schools. Barrett, a former professor at Stanford University, is a big believer in education, especially in developing teachers. Barrett also appeared at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology where he delivered a keynote reaffirming his belief that real change can happen when governments and private industry team up.

In this video podcast PodTech producer Jason Lopez captured Barrett’s visits in Penang and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

World Congress on Information Technology Blog

Tags: Intel, Craig Barrett, Malaysia, ICT

Intel Research Day: Showcase for Creativity

Paul Lancour — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:31 +0000

When Intel’s research teams think about the future of computing - from mobile devices with near-limitless functionality to technology for the developing world to virtual worlds and advanced robotics, they are literally mapping our future (a future that could include, for example, a cafe table with networking ability). In this podcast preview of the 2008 Research@Intel Day, to be held at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, we hear from some of Intel’s key players when it comes to the next generations of technology. Hear what Intel Research is focusing on now from Andrew Chien, vice president, corporate technology group and director of Intel Research; Intel Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporate Technology Group Justin Rattner; and Eric Brewer, director, Intel Research Berkeley.

Research Day is a chance to check in Intel on the future impacts that its advanced chip technologies will have on human health, mobility, innovation and, of course, computing - from Terascale architecture, software and programming issues to visual computing challenges.

You can hear more from Andrew Chien, here talking about essential computing, “the vision that drives Intel Research.” Justin Rattner shares some thoughts on virtual words as a precursor to the 3D Internet, and Eric Brewer, also a professor of comptuer science at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about how research from his Berkeley lab could lead to better technologies for the developing world.

Past coverage of Research@Intel Day

Tags: virtual worlds, Research@Intel Day, Silicon Valley, Intel, Andrew Chien, Justin Rattner, Eric Brewer, mobility, Terascale, essential computing

San Jose Mercury News photojournalist uses VuVox to tell photostory

Robert Scoble — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:36:03 +0000

Photojournalist Richard Hernandez, who’s worked for the San Jose Mercury News (Silicon Valley’s biggest newspaper) for 13 years shows off how he uses a new service from VuVox to build a new kind of photostory based on a collage. He shows how he overlays audio, video, and other pictures and links to tell a new kind of story.

Tags: Richard Hernandez, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley, VuVox

Highlights of Photowalk with professional photographer Marc Silber

Robert Scoble — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:51:52 +0000

Here’s just a few minutes of a really great photowalk with professional photographer Marc Silber who takes us around the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. Photos and Photography tips packed in to a few short minutes.

Tags: photowalk, Marc Silber, Long Ridge, Silicon Valley, Photography

Photowalking above Silicon Valley

Robert Scoble — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:29:28 +0000

This is a different kind of photowalking than we usually do. First, no Thomas Hawk. Second, we have a real, professional photographer (he even has the license plates to prove it). Third, we go for a nature walk up in the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. The photographer is Marc Silber, who also teaches photography and has an
[tag]eBook on how to make better photographs. He gives us tons of tips in this one-hour walk.

Tags: photowalking, Thomas Hawk, Long Ridge, Silicon Valley, Marc Silber

The state of Russian venture capital

Robert Scoble — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:18:07 +0000

Yuri Ammosov, a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of venture capital and high tech development programs, talks with me about how Russia is flush with cash thanks to the rising energy prices (they are one of the world’s leading oil producers) and are working with Silicon Valley venture capital firms to diversify its economy. We talk about some of the smart people and smart companies that are popping up in Russia and tons of other stuff too.

Tags: Yuri Ammosov, venture capital, Russia, Silicon Valley

Viral Strategy panel: Invites, Notifications, and News Feed Optimization

Aron Pruiett — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:32:02 +0000

Is blogger etiquette a viral issue and will users engage in such considerate formalities? Spam has found its way into many daily applications before Facebook, will Facebook’s platform become as congested with unwarranted solicitation as many platforms before it?

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings captured the business and technology of Facebook during the 2007Graphing Social Patterns conference. Getting attention through applications, platform expansion and new interfaces all get targeted by developers.

This panel of Justin Smith, Jia Shen, Blake Commagere, Jason Beckerman and Tim O’Shaughnessy speak up about what they enjoy and are working towards.

Tags: blogger etiquette, Spam, Facebook, Tom Foremski, Lee Cummings, Graphing Social Patterns, Justin Smith, Jia Shen, Blake Commagere, Jason Beckerman, Tim O’Shaughnessy

Thought Leaders: Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch on the meaning of meaning based computing

Aron Pruiett — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:32:46 +0000

Autonomy is on a roll this year as it consolidates its leading position as the second largest European software company through new products and acquisitions. Its search technology is dominant in the enterprise software sector where it is embedded into large enterprise software suites from many vendors. And it has its sights on expanding its business in the US, which is already 70 per cent of its revenues. “Meaning based computing” is a term that Autonomy has been using to explain how its latest technology can find relevant content because it understands the meaning of content. Tom Foremski interviews Mike Lynch, CEO, at Autonomy’s offices in San Francisco.

Tags: Autonomy, Meaning based computing, Tom Foremski, Mike Lynch

Morocco’s Tech Challenge: Literacy

Jason Lopez — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:51:41 +0000

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the potential of an information-driven workforce is always the same — education. Morocco wants to create its own Silicon Valley. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett visited the country to reaffirm the company’s commitment to helping Morocco shorten its road to literacy. PodTech’s Jason Lopez filed this podcast

Tags: Morocco, information technology, education, Silicon Valley, Intel, Craig Barrett, literacy, PodTech, Jason Lopez

ICT Access for Africa: Intel, UN and ITU Efforts to Globalize Broadband

Jason Lopez — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:44:35 +0000

Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, technical and financial resources to speed development and improvement of Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Expanding broadband, wireless and mobile access technologies is the current push, after indications that Africa’s general ICT development is lagging behind its unprecedented adoption of mobile phone technology (400 percent in just a few years - well ahead of projections).

Dr. Hamadoun Touré is secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union. His call for what he refers to as a “Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa,” has been heard by the United Nations, and particularly by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett who, leading the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, or UN GAID, is working to bring the leading ICT companies in Silicon Valley and around the world to the challenges in Africa.

The United Nations’s Millennium Development Goals are driving innovation around the world, as the challenge of reducing global poverty by half by 2015 looms. The Connect Africa effort brings together private enterprise and non-governmental organizations for a two-day summit in Kigali, Rwanda, beginning on October 29, hosted by Rwanda President Paul Kagame and John Kufour, president of Ghana and chairman of the African Union.

Intel’s World Ahead Program, established in May 2006, has already seen the chip maker pledge more than $1 billion over five years to bridge the digital divide and bring full access to technology to the developing world.

OpenFaced Panel: Opening up the Social Graph

Aron Pruiett — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:13:44 +0000

Tom Foremski and Lee Cummings capture the business and technology of Facebook during their recent Graphing Social Patterns conference. Opening up the social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, privacy and profiles are discussed as Tantek Celik moderates David Recordon (SixApart), Chamath Palihapitiya (Facebook), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo) and Ted Grubb (Satisfaction Unlimited).

Will controlling data compliment open standards? Are privacy and trust standards capable of keeping pace with the influx of application designs? Without secure information, is the social graph a reliable?

Tags: Graphing Social Patterns, social web, user content, viral applications, user etiquette, Tantek Celik, David Recordon, SixApart, Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook, Joseph Smarr, Plaxo, Ted Grubb, Satisfaction Unlimited

Silicon Valley Turns Out to Honor Top Technologists

Aron Pruiett — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:26:47 +0000

Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to its own history but things are changing. The Computer History Museum’s 2007 Fellow Awards was sold out as much of Silicon Valley’s aristocracy turned out for a $250 fund raising dinner that paid tribute to four top technologists: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson and Charles Thacker.

Morris Chang helped create the fabless chip industry. And in doing so, he created a massive innovation platform by enabling small bands of chip designers to buy production time as they needed it. Chip companies no longer needed to own and maintain hugely expensive chip fabs.

John Hennessy helped develop the RISC microprocessor, whose features are found in all modern microprocessors. As president of Stanford University, he has made huge contributions to education, and the creation of a student body that has gone on to found many of Silicon Valley’s largest companies. And his work has helped generate huge licensing revenue for the university.

David Patterson made important contributions to microprocessor design and RAID data storage technologies. As head of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, he has helped educate generations of computer engineers.

Charles Thacker helped create the personal computer. His work at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center led to the Alto, the machine that inspired Apple Computer and featured a windows graphical user interface. He co-developed Ethernet and also the laser printer.

Tags: Morris Chang, John Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Charles Thacker, John Hennessy, David Patterson, Charles Thacker

CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007: The Present and Future of the Semiconductor Industry

Paul Lancour — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:01:53 +0000

Ted Vucurevich, SVP and CTO at Cadence, and Tom Reeves, vice president, Technology Licensing, IBM Intellectual Property & Standards, discuss the current state of the semiconductor industry and where it’s heading tomorrow and beyond. Topics include IBM’s market focus for chips, the technologies needed to keep shrinking process nodes, and the design collaboration between Cadence and IBM.

Tags: Ted Vucurevich, Cadence, Tom Reeves

(Explicit) Dan Farber on…

Steve Gillmor — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:24:08 +0000

Is the valuation a term that is taken too lightly? These days, new tech companies like Facebook seem to be popping up from every part of Silicon Valley. Can Facebook actually monetize the bazillion apps that are being thrown their way? And from the consumers perspective, do we care? Farber and Gillmor discuss the particulars of Facebook’s valuation and the possible efforts of the mighty Google, building a similar platform. And who’s the guy telling us this is private property?

CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007: San Jose, Calif.

Paul Lancour — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:41:14 +0000

A very successful CDNLive! Silicon Valley recently concluded in San Jose, Calif. Part of a series of global conferences, this event brought together more than 800 Cadence technology users from 16 countries and 183 companies to share ideas, tackle complex issues, and meet Cadence experts. In this podcast we hear the challenges designers are facing as they move to advanced process nodes and the solutions Cadence announced at CDNLive! under the WYDIWYG (What You Design Is What You Get) moniker.

Tags: CDNLive!

Microsoft’s Popfly: A Mashup Platform for Consumers

Tom Foremski — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:27:26 +0000

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to easily create web services with multiple data sources, and embed them in their Web sites. These widgets can also be easiily shared amongst users. It is Microsoft’s first application of its Silverlight technology.

Tags: Halo 3, Dan Fernandez, Visual Studio, Popfly, Silverlight

Behind the scenes at the Computer History Museum

editor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:58:30 +0000

The Computer History Museum is a fascinating visit for anyone interested in the history of computing and Silicon Valley. But there’s more there than meets the eye. Literally. Hidden from public view is a huge back storeroom with hundreds of artifacts, including a prototype tablet computer called the Apple “Cadillac,” an AT&T picture phone, Apple Lisas and the Altair 8800, a popular kit computer, which a young company called Micro-Soft wrote programming tools for. Also get a peek at a rare Canon Cat PC, designed by Jef Raskin of Apple fame, as well as wooden wheels from the famous Wagon Wheel bar, a Silicon Valley institution.

Tags: Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley, Apple Lisas, Altair 8800

IDF Live: Is Social Media a Friend or Foe of IT?

Jason Lopez — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:35:49 +0000

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves in opposition to the kinds of needs created by those newer social networks.

The panel in this podcast includes Peter Kaminski, CTO of Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, attorney for social media and marketing at Intel, Jeff Moriarty, a social media/Web 2.0 design engineer at Intel, John Miner, an IT methodologist at Intel, and Eleanor Wynn, a social technology architect at Intel

It’s IT’s stereotypical response (”No”) to questions about setting up blogs and wikis, that prompts the debate. But as John Miner points out, most large companies inherently already have blogs and wikis — they just don’t realize it. This, he says, is because they tend to grow organically inside of large IT structures. But the fact is that the candor and conversation that make up the substance of blogs and wikis do tend to threaten some of the structures of the enterprise — especially when it comes to legal concerns.

How does Intel handle the challenges? Especially when it comes to the “gray areas?” This video podcast shows how one large corporation is navigating social media in the enterprise.

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Tags: Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher, Intel Developer Forum, social media, IT, social networks, Peter Kaminski, Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, Jeff Moriarty, John Miner, Eleanor Wynn, social technology, blogs and wikis, IT@Intel

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part 2

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:21:19 +0000

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out whether or not you owe your workplace set-up to Moore and Intel (hint: you probably do). Also, was “Intel” ever the hame of a motel company in the Midwest?

The conversation covered a full career, from a time before semiconductors, when the very notion of integrated circuits was new — and controversial. Since then, of course, not only has Moore been on the winning side of the technology, but his name has become synomymous with the notion that the technology of the chip is on an aggressive development track — “Moore’s Law” has guided and challenged the chip industry for more than 30 years. (Asked if he regrets that name, he says, “I guess I don’t - now.”)

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say (this year)? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Moore easily recalls a time before the name Silicon Valley applied to the high-tech corridor south of San Francisco, but he was also remembers a time before the now-ubiquitous staple of office life worldwide. Cubicles. You may not like your cubicle much, but according to Moore, they came about in an attempt to keep the office from looking like a prison. Besides, he says, he still has the biggest cubicle at Intel.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part I

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:36:20 +0000

In this segment, find out how Intel really got its start, and how much of its success Moore thinks was just great good luck.

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

Five things you should know about IT virtualization

Tom Foremski — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:00:37 +0000

Tom Foremski speaks with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen from Sun and Ronit Belson from OpTier, an ISV partner of Sun’s, about virtualization. The conversation covers five points about virtualization: Understanding your business application; How do your virtualization technologies fit your business conditions; Where should you compress your costs; Decide who owns the chargebacks; Determine your backup strategy.

Tags: Tom Foremski, Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Ronit Belson, OpTier, virtualization

APIs and Feeds, Part 2

Steve Gillmor — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:45:57 +0000

Stowe Boyd moderated the API’s and Feeds discussion during the 2007 Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stowe continues his discussion of APIs and Feeds in this video by addressing questions from the audience. His panel of Dave McClure, Ben Metcalfe, Oren Michels, Greg Reinacker, and Charlie Wood all contribute insights.

Tom Foremski asks who are good and bad citizens with regards to sharing APIs.

Consumer and enterprise data aggregation have diverse applications — how will Web-based design support multiple platform concerns? Will conventional businesses adopt the distribution models of the Internet? What is the common denominator for successful adoption?

Tags: Stowe Boyd, API’s and Feeds, Office 2.0, Dave McClure, Ben Metcalfe, Oren Michels, Greg Reinacker, Charlie Wood, Tom Foremski

Silicon Valley Watcher: Marten Mickos

Tom Foremski — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:39:52 +0000

Tom Foremski speaks with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, the second-largest open source company, about Silicon Valley and the challenge of managing teams of programmers spread across the world.

Tags: Tom Foremski, Marten Mickos, MySQL, open source, Silicon Valley

Umang Gupta On Entrepreneurship, Part I

Kamla Bhatt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:02:57 +0000

Umang Gupta is CEO of Keynote Systems. I caught up with Umang at the Pan IIT Global Conference in July and talked to him about entrepreneurship and what it takes to do startups and run your business.

Umang wrote Oracle’s first business plan and went on to co-found Gupta Technologies and take it through a successful IPO. Gupta Technologies was the first client-server SQL relational database for PCs. But, after Gupta Technologies went IPO the company took a different route, and Umang stepped down from the board in 1997.

Umang is an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies. He served on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.

Tags: Umang Gupta, Keynote Systems, Oracle, Silicon Valley, Mosaix

Silicon Valley tales from Buck’s Diner

editor — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:00:54 +0000

Valerie Cunningham interviews Jamis McNiven, the owner of Buck’s Diner, in Woodside, Calif. This is where many of Silicon Valley’s most famous companies got their start: pitching their business plans in breakfast meetings with local VCs. Also on TechOne: Josh Hallett and Alex Kim give some great advice on getting around pushback from IT depts when implementing social media projects.

Tags: Jamis McNiven, Buck’s Diner, Silicon Valley, Josh Hallett, Alex Kim, social media