Movin' Ahead

Sophia Loren by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Italy, 1961 | Retronaut

kenekaplan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:10:38 +0000

Via Scoop.it – Movin’ Ahead

All images by Alfred Eisenstaedt … Thank you to LIFE Archive.
Via www.retronaut.co

Digital Arts Renaissance in the Cloud

kenekaplan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:58:02 +0000

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In the final weeks of 2011, I drove to Berkeley to interview the founder and digital artists at McNeil Studio to hear first-hand about their first experience using cloud computing services to create a fast-moving animation based on paper origami designs.

I shot a video and wrote this article for Intel Free Press — Cloud Computing Democratizes Digital Animation — focusing on the impact of cloud computing — paying for on-demand supercomputer power from datacenters owned by Amazon. The story also appears in Silicon Valley Watcher.

The idea of sending pieces of a render job out to different computers to crunch was novel and felt somewhat risky, but the results, the speed and the cost all had the McNeil Studio team singing the praises of Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service.

I was also drawn into the actual creative process and how they turned
paper origami figurines into an engaging animated story for my employer,
Intel, which wanted to redesign its consumer technology website with
examples of how people can use their computer to do amazing, dazzling
things in life.

I crack up at the penguin scene.

The final version is at Intel’s Unfold What’s Possible site.

Moving to the Cloud (vendio.com)
Amazon’s Cloud: A Supercomputer Anyone Can Rent (mashable.com)

CES 2012: Measuring Social Conversations Amid the Noise

kenekaplan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:09:07 +0000

Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press

A Look Inside the Social Cockpit Intel is Using to Discover and Analyze What’s Getting the Most Buzz on Twitter, Blogs, Facebook and YouTubeThe online heartbeat of the Consumer Electronics Show is being monitored in real time by a team of data…
Via newsroom.intel.com

kenekaplan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:16:36 +0000

2011 in review

kenekaplan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:32:34 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Timeline: A History Of Touch-Screen Technology : NPR

kenekaplan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:51:36 +0000

Via Scoop.it – Movin’ Ahead

Today’s touch-screen devices seem like a thing of the future, but the technology that runs your iPad or Android can actually be traced back to 1948 and something called the Electronic Sackbut.
Via www.npr.org

CES 2012: Analysts Pick Top Tech to Watch – Movin’ Ahead

kenekaplan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:48:35 +0000

Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press
Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press Tablets, Big TVs, Home Automation Technologies, Ultrabooks and Win8 Will Be Buzzworthy, but Analysts Aren’t Expecting Any Blockbusters at the Upcoming Consumer Electronics ShowIt may …
Via kenekaplan.com

CES 2012: Analysts Pick Top Tech to Watch

kenekaplan — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:39:46 +0000

Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press

Tablets, Big TVs, Home Automation Technologies, Ultrabooks and Win8 Will Be Buzzworthy, but Analysts Aren’t Expecting Any Blockbusters at the Upcoming Consumer Electronics ShowIt may be little things with limited sales potential, such as the…
Via newsroom.intel.com

Women in Tech: Meet the Duchess of SIlicon Valley Startups

kenekaplan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:43:00 +0000

“Silicon Valley is a place where you can just do anything, but geography matters less” says entrepreneur Marylene Delbourg-Delphis inside Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, Calif. “With the addition of all sorts of nationalities, far more than anything we saw here 30 years ago, it’s a true melting pot for geographies and times. You have people coming from very different backgrounds with completely different histories. It’s truly phenomenal; here people have been used to inventing and innovation for two generations.”

Below is a link to my profile of Delbourg-Delphis, which was republished by Silicon Valley Watcher.

Women In Tech: Meet The Duchess Of Silicon Valley (via Silicon Valley Watcher)

Hermonica Collection inside Buck’s Restaurant. (kenekaplan.com)

Italy: Hiking and driving the Dolomites Great Road – Richmond Times Dispatch

kenekaplan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:05:37 +0000

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Italy: Hiking and driving the Dolomites Great RoadRichmond Times DispatchItaly’s Dolomites: www.dolomiti.org provides lodging, hiking, historical attraction information and more. Summer season runs to September.
Via www2.timesdispatch.com