Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Microsoft
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Technology and Everyday Skills
I generally believe that successful technologies become invisible, dissolved into the fabric of society. They supplant older, previously valuable skills. Few of us would now survive as hunter-gatherers, but almost all of us can now use a search engine to query the world’s knowledge base. Having said that, qualitative reasoning and intuition regarding orders of…
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Goldilocks, Porridge and Science: Getting It Right
It is now incumbent upon us to rethink how we facilitate discovery and innovation in this brave new world of large data, for practitioners of both small and large science. Simply put, we must reconsider how we fund, construct, manage and operate scientific data repositories.
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Ubiquitous Communication
I have posted a few thoughts on the coming Internet of Things and the implications for cognitive communication over on the Microsoft on the Issues blog. Everywhere, anytime communication is a notable result of recent computing advances, but it’s dependent upon available bandwidth, and that bandwidth is finite. Spectrum is, in many ways, like a…
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A Few Thoughts on Clouds, Science and SC10
On the Microsoft blog, I posted a few thoughts on SC10, the rise of clouds and the power of simplicity in high-performance computing. There is also a video of my smiling face expounding on this topic.
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Modeling the World
Today, Microsoft publicly launched a new technical computing vision, Modeling the World. The web site contains vignettes about computing from a variety of technical computing leaders, both inside Microsoft and across the broader community.
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Jaron Lanier: Time’s Thinker
Time magazine annually publishes a list of its 100 Most Influential People in the World. This year, my Microsoft XCG colleague, Jaron Lanier, was named to this list in the thinker category.