Computer Technology

Speaker: Elizabeth Lawley: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of Interactive Games & Media. Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing technologies such as weblogs, wikis, virtual worlds, collaborative information retrieval, and gender imbalances in technology and education.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Steve Blank: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Put to a vote I might have been chosen “least likely to succeed” in my New York City high school class.  My path has taken me from repairing fighter planes during the Vietnam War in Thailand, to spook stuff in undisclosed location(s), and I was lucky enough to arrive at the beginning of the boom times of Silicon Valley in 1978. After 21 years in 8 high technology companies I retired in 1999.  My last company, E.piphany, started in my living room in 1996. My other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a consulting stint for a graphics hardware/software spinout (Pixar), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games).

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Jeff Pierce: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Jeff Pierce manages the mobile computing research group at IBM Research - Almaden (link: https://www.almaden.ibm.com/.) Prior to joining IBM Research in 2006, he served time as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There he led the Personal Information Environments research group and co-directed the Adaptive Personalized Information Environments lab with Charles Isbell. His current research concentrates on understanding and supporting interaction that spans multiple personal computing devices (including smartphones, but also desktops, laptops, and other devices). In addition to having his research appear in numerous conference proceedings, journals, and books, he also shared the honor of being Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2006.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Picture the Impossible: How an Online Game Can Change Your Offline ...

By Elizabeth Lawley

Creating vibrant local communities online is a growing user expectation yet remains a complex task. Liz Lawley, director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, shares insight into the alternate reality game her team built with the local newspaper and how to create a compelling local experience for consumers that melds online interaction with offline engagement.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

State of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 2: The Technologies - O'Reilly ...

By Mike Hendrickson

In this second installment (the first post is found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six

[Publish Date: February 17, 2009]

Speaker: Dharmesh Shah: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Dharmesh Shah is founder and Chief Technology Officer of HubSpot, an Internet marketing software (link: https://www.hubspot.com/) company dedicated to helping small businesses leverage the Internet to get found by qualified prospects and convert more of them into leads and customers. Prior to HubSpot, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, an enterprise software company that was acquired by SunGard in 2005. He also runs OnStartups.com (link: https://onstartups.com/,) the top blog and online community for entrepreneurs. He is an active member of the Boston area entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over a dozen startups and a frequent speaker on the topic of entrepreneurship and Web marketing. Dharmesh holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is the author of the business bestseller Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (link:...

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Gene Becker: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Gene Becker is founder and managing director of Lightning Laboratories, a consultancy focusing on strategy and action for the connected world of ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, social media and the internet of things. At Hewlett-Packard’s technology research unit HP Labs, Gene led advanced research and business development for Cooltown, a web-based platform for mobile and ubiquitous computing that was a key part of HP’s turn-of-the-century technical vision. Also at HP Labs, Gene led the creation of utility computing services used in the production of DreamWorks Animation’s feature films Shrek 2 and Madagascar, and co-founded a new cloud services business unit within HP’s Services business sector. Gene was worldwide director of product development for extreme performance and mobility brand Voodoo PC, where he built the engineering and product management teams and led development of award-winning products including the HP Blackbird and Firebird liquid-cooled gaming systems...

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: Velocity 2010, Web Performance & Operations ...

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (link: https://www.oreilly.com/,) Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (link: https://www.oscon.com/,) the Web 2.0 Summit (link: https://www.web2summit.com,) and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar (link: https://radar.oreilly.com/) “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of CollabNet and Safari Books Online, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2010]

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (link: https://www.oreilly.com/,) Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (link: https://www.oscon.com/,) the Web 2.0 Summit (link: https://www.web2summit.com,) and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar (link: https://radar.oreilly.com/) “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of CollabNet and Safari Books Online, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Jeremy Edberg: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Jeremy is currently the Information Cowboy (aka. Operations Manager) for reddit.com (link: https://www.reddit.com/,) an online community for sharing and discussing interesting things on the internet. reddit is an Alexa Top 250 website whose entire operations are run on Amazon's EC2. Jeremy has spent 15 years in technology: 4 in operations, 3 in security, 4 in consulting, and 4 in academic computing. When working for Sendmail, he helped administer the most bleeding edge Sendmail server on the internet; at eBay he helped protect people from phishing and scams, created patent-pending fraud detection software, and evaluated hardware for the eBay platform; and at UC Berkeley, he wired up large portions of the dorms for internet, back before every college student in America had a net drop in their room. Jeremy has keynoted at conferences such as PyCon and Cloud Connect. He holds a Cognitive Science degree from UC Berkeley.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]