Tales from the Technoverse

Category: technology

  • Upcoming Panel on Wearables & The Internet of Things (IoT)

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    It’s that time again for another ATARC (Advanced Technology Academic Research Center) hosted Summit. And when there is a summit, there is a research/academic panel that I moderate. The summit is the Federal Mobile Computing Summit, my panel is on Wearables & The Internet of Things. The Summit will be August 19 & 20, this…

  • Federal Cloud Summit Panel I Moderated

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    I moderated a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing July 9 at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit. The three excellent panelists were: Amol Deshpande, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Grace Lewis, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, University, and John Messina,…

  • Federal Cloud Computing Summit Visionary Panel – Tomorrow July 9th

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    I will be moderating a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit tomorrow July 9th at the Ronald Reagan Building starting at 2:45. It should be a great panel with professors from the University of Maryland College Park, Amol Deshpande, from their Cloud Computing Center and from the Software…

  • Read About or Listen To My Participation on the DorobekINSIDER Live Panel on Cybersecurity

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    The link to the  show is here: http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/another-one-bites-the-dust-cybersecurity-done-right-on-dorobekins There are a few quotes from me in the printed material plus there is a link there to the show. Participants included (copied from the web page):   Rob Carey, former Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Defense Department; he is now Vice President and General Manager CSC Global…

  • On The Dorobek Insider Live Tomorrow/Wednesday from 2pm – 3pm

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    Chris is doing a broadcast about Cybersecurity tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21st, at 3pm about Cybersecurity. His panel consists of Rob Carey, the recently retired Deputy CIO at DoD, now at CSC; Ira Hobbs, retired from a distinguished career as an IT executive at a number of Govenment agencies including USDA and the Department of Commerce,…

  • Co-Creation and Government

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    The impact of mobile computing devices on Government can be divided into three areas of focus: Improving, or at least changing, the nature of IT infrastructure and organizational operations Revising the delivery and implementation of Government services Changing the relationship of Government to its citizen customers and because of that potentially revising what exactly Government…

  • WFED – Today at 3pm

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    On with Francis Rose on WFED, on your AM radio dial at 1500 (for those of you who still realize you can get AM radio) today at 3pm. The format for the show is two people select three stories for the week which they feel are the most important impacting on the Federal Government. As…

  • The Spread of Technology

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    I teach a graduate Capstone class at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) which focuses on the Strategic Management of Innovation & Technology. We look at what exactly strategic management is and then spend most of the semester looking at how an organization can optimize developing Technology internally and also looking at the implications…

  • Stigmergic Systems

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    In today’s Washington Post there was an article “Termites inspire construction robots?”,  http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/termites-inspire-construction-robots/2014/02/13/e6ef44ce-941f-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html. The article discusses an approach to making a building following the process termites use to build their large nests. Termites, and the robots discussed in the article use a technique called stigmergy.  Communications are indirect creating loosely coupled but aligned collections capable of…

  • COBOL (COBOL?), Defanging, and Still More Snowden Fallout

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    I was lucky enough to be asked, again, by Francis Rose to be on his regular Friday ‘Federal News Countdown”, this last Friday, January 31st. The show can be heard here: Federal News Countdown. The other guest was Jon Desenberg, the Policy Director for the Performance Institute, The Performance Insitute. For those unfamiliar with the…