It figures that I’d be upset about the lack of quality in the ETech presentations and walk right into an excellent talk by Nathan Eagle of MIT. Nathan’s research included giving phones to students and faculty at MIT that tracked location (both as a cell tower and as described by SMS), proximity to other Bluetooth-enabled [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ETech08'
Great talk from Nathan Eagle of MIT
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: ETech08
ETech 2008 (Day 2)
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Lawrence Lessig speaks tonight in a keynote that I’m certainly looking forward to. Generally, ETech includes too few presentations that are delivered by alpha geeks and concerned with emerging technology. If this really is the next wave of innovation being presented here, what’s missing is why and how it will make a difference. A solid [...]
Tags: ETech08
ETech 2008
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Two talks stuck out today. One was a brief talk from Saul Griffith of Makani Power. What I took away from the talk was the impracticality of many renewable energy sources such as tidal power and wind power. A combination of all renewable options, with an emphasis on solar and a strong conservation element [...]
Tags: ETech08 · emerging technology · supercomputer