Computer Technology

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: Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...

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: September 27, 2010]

Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Using Your Preferred Technology: Web 2.0 ...

By Sumit Chawla, Tim Wise

Rather than being forced to use some language or framework you don’t need otherwise, why not just keep using the ones you are familiar with now ? In this session, we will step thru a series of demonstrations where non-Microsoft open source programming technologies (like Php or Java) and tools are used natively to create cloud computing solutions with the Azure Services platform.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]

You are invited to a free, live webcast: Cloud Computing: The Next Frontier ...

The current financial crisis has raised enterprise interest in two technology trends: open source and cloud computing. In this presentation, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus will discuss how the two trends reinforce one another, and why cloud computing...

[Publish Date: July 01, 2009]

Webcast - Cloud Computing: The Next Frontier for Open Source

By Bernard Golden

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The current financial crisis has raised enterprise interest in two technology trends: open source and cloud computing. In this presentation, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus will discuss how the two...

[Publish Date: July 15, 2009]

Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age: Web 2.0 Expo New ...

By Douglas Rushkoff

We continue to accept new technologies into our lives with little or no understanding of how these devices work and work on us. We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another, instead. And this is a potentially grave mistake.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

The Robot 2.0 : When Social Robots Dream in the Cloud: Web 2.0 Expo New ...

By Heather Knight

As robots enter everyday human contexts with access to cloud computing, we are facing a functional and behavioral paradigm shift for robots not dissimilar from the Web 2.0 revolution. People engage differently with physically present characters and are more likely to adopt a technology with whom they enjoy interacting.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Bret Taylor: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Bret Taylor is the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed, which was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Before starting FriendFeed, Bret worked at Google, where co-created Google Maps, the Google Maps API, and started Google's developer product group. Bret has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Leila Chirayath Janah: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Charlie Kim: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Charlie Kim serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Next Jump, Inc. (link: https://www.nextjump.com/) Mr. Kim founded Next Jump in 1994. He worked in the Information Technology and Human Resources groups of Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1995 to 1997. He returned to Boston in April 1997 to grow the business full-time. To grow Next Jump from a one-person operation to a multi-layered corporation, he raised millions in independent investments from Wall Street's most influential players. He graduated with Honors from Tufts University in 1995, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Tom Conrad: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Tom Conrad is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Pandora Media, where he manages the teams that design, develop, qualify, and maintain the Pandora product family. For the last 20 years, he has been designing and developing interactive applications for both the desktop and web. Tom has worked on a diverse range of products, from operating systems and enterprise software to video games and consumer products. He has led a number engineering and product design teams at both early- and late-stage companies. Tom holds three US patents, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He occasionally posts interesting finds to his blog.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]