NASA Nebula, the DNA of cloud computing and challenges at NASA

Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I'm currently sitting in Barcelona Cafe at the NASA Research Park where a group of fellow NASA Ames employees have decided to come together over lunch to get some of their most important and pressing thoughts out on the web. It's been a while since I've last blogged anything relating to the theme of this blog so, armed with my iPhone, I'm just writing away. Mind you, everyone is expected to come up with a new blogpost that goes live before you leave back to work, which, given the strong competition of Twitter where it comes to blogging is a good 'stok achter de deur' (literally, a stick behind the door...don't think it translates well in English).

It's a bit of a challenge to come up with a fully fletched thorough blogpost on a iPhone (which reminds me I recently read a first 'dictated' blogpost by Fred Wilson (excuse me for not trying to hyperlink that right now on my iPhone), so I'll stick to linking to one of the most inspired pieces on the web I found over the last week. It's NASA Ames CIO Chris Kemp talking about the NASA Nebula cloud computing project, why it aims to have a positive influence on the DNA of cloud computing, and how that relates to challenges at NASA:

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=249&sid=1853153

More next week...

Nicholas Carr at Google Atmosphere

Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009



More videos from Atmosphere on Youtube (via)

A look in the mirror: tobedetermined on del.icio.us

Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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A wordle viz of my del.icio.us bookmarks (note: since a few months ago i've mostly set my del.icio.us bookmarks to private so this reflects my state of mind the last year or 2...)

Magical Bruce Sterling Keynote on Augmented Reality as Industry

Posted on Friday, August 21, 2009

His keynote at the official Layar Reality Browser launch in Amsterdam. Easily one of the best presentations of this year. Embedded below.

code == content == code

Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Breakfast

Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Television and Apollo

Posted on Monday, August 3, 2009

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Ah, those good old days...

Carhenge

Posted on Saturday, July 25, 2009

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(via Next Nature)

LRO/LCROSS launch

Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009

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more on Twitter

Maker Faire 2009

Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009

Another reason to love the Bay Area: Maker Faire. More at Flickr. (((not bad for an iPhone camera btw...)))

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The future is process, not a destination
Bruce Sterling

Everything is ultimately becoming information technology
Ray Kurzweil

Data is the Intel inside
Tim O'Reilly

There is only one machine and the web is its OS
Kevin Kelly

The medium is the message
Marshall McLuhan









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