Simons Foundation chooses U.C. Berkeley for Computing Center for research: the growing influence of computer science on the physical and social sciences. An interdisciplinary array of scientists will explore the mathematical foundations of computer science and attack problems in fields as diverse as health care, astrophysics, genetics and economics. Part science and part engineering, computer science… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
After a gap of over 20 years, I got a chance to meet with my mentor. I first met him towards the end of 1984 and pitched him three ways of building a database engine. I will tell this long story in another post. I was nervous as hell and blabbered about SQL vs QBE… [Read more…]
March 5, 2012
In the past two days, I came across two stories. They are stories of innovation but they also point to a common pattern. I find this encouraging. Is this a trend? We don’t know yet. Tide Pods are palm-size, liquid detergent-filled tablets that are designed to be tossed in the washer to take the measuring… [Read more…]
January 22, 2012
Education hasn’t kept up with development in Big Data according to Deng. “We are facing a huge deficit in people to not only handle big data, but more importantly to have the knowledge and skills to generate value from data — dealing with the non-stop tsunami. How do you aggregate and filter data, how do… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
I don’t think I will ever stop mentioning Steve Jobs in some way. If you are a product guy, SJ is your Product God. From Jony Ives, on Steve and ideas. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts,… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
A trend in one area causes innovations, which in turn drives other trends. Here is a classic example where technology developed in one area ‘consumer devices’ helps in an entirely different area – microscopy. a growing trend in microscopy is to make smaller and smaller devices, which are useful for everything from new areas of… [Read more…]
September 2, 2011
An article about 90 Day Innovation Sprint. We start with a careful but quick assessment of the industry trends, and develop three to four scenarios which help illuminate the possible future outcomes over a five to seven year period. Based on these scenarios we investigate new customer needs or emerging markets or threats to discover… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
From A Theory of Everything (Sort of) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thanks to cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, the iPad, and cheap Internet-enabled smartphones, the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected.
March 28, 2011
The weekend marathon event In50hrs is behind us now. But the ripples continue. A few blog posts, tweets and retweets, facebook pictures and comments are still trickling in. Here is what I really like about the event. I liked the name and the tag line – ”Can you take an idea and give it life… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
Systems Thinking isn’t new. It’s a tried and true process of seeing the entire ecosystem and how all of its different parts impact each other. It allows us to see how if a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it can cause a storm in another. This all starts with seeing… [Read more…]
May 1, 2012
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