Thursday, March 27, 2008

Patent on Performance and Capacity Planning

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Here is another patent that I filed while working at Sun. System and method for generating a probability distribution of computer performanc...

Patents on Peer to Peer Trading Platform

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While working at eBay Research Labs I did some work using Skype that resulted in four patents in the area of P2P trading and reputation syst...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

BIL Podcast: Garrett Lisi - Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

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I published a BIL podcast from the recordings I made, first talk is my favorite, particle physics explained by Garrett Lisi http://web.mac....
Monday, March 03, 2008

BIL - recording an excellent adventure

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The closing slide of BIL by Garrett Lisi Two days of intense expansion of my horizons, a self-organizing conference, and I am left holding a...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Millicomputing at BIL this weekend

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I'm presenting (and generally helping out) at the BIL un-conference this weekend in Monterey. I have posted some slides on my Millicomp...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Hiring a researcher at Netflix

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Here is the job specification for a research oriented position working for me at Netflix. We are looking for a very experienced engineer who...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Emerging Communications Conference - EComm March 12-14

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I'm presenting at the EComm conference on the subject of Millicomputing on the morning of March 14th. There is a Homebrew Mobile Club ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

MacWorld report: iZap, Apple MacBook Air, iPhone and AppleTV

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The picture shows an electric car called the Zap, which someone appears to have decided that it needed a few upgrades to become the iZap. Je...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Some New Performance Monitoring Tools

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There is a simple and extensible open source C based daemon called collectd that writes to RRD files, an alternative to Orca/procallato r f...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Thoughts on iPhone 1.1.3, Macworld, 3G and business users

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Reports indicate the the 1.1.3 update is likely to ship before MacWorld in January, it includes an update to Google Maps that adds the same ...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

MacOS X Leopard, iPhone and Stereo Bluetooth Headphones - A2DP

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Over a year ago I bought stereo bluetooth headphones on eBay, its a multifunction unit the OMIZ OMS600, and it includes an MP3 player (with ...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

A. A. Michelson Award Acceptance Speech

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Last week I was selected as this year's winner of the A. A. Michelson Award for Lifetime Achievement and Contribution by the Computer M...
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CMG07 and the A. A. Michelson Award

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From the Computer Measurement Group website : Each year, CMG considers exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to ou...
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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Jobs at Netflix - One down, one to go...

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I have been working on hiring for the last month or so. We found and hired one good match and had a bunch of near misses, so I have revised ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Parallel Application Performance and Tuning with OpenMP

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I just had dinner with my old friend Ruud van der Pas, who works for Sun's developer tools organization. He is a world class expert in m...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Computer Measurement Group - CMG07 - San Diego - December 2-7

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As usual I will be presenting at CMG07 . I have attended every year since 1994, and its the place where I keep track of new developments in ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

First look at Android and implications for the Homebrew MyPhone

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Google's new Android SDK is a lot more than a Linux distribution, its a complete and documented application framework with developer to...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Leopard review, iPhone 1.1.2 release and the Google Phone

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There is an excellent in depth review of Leopard at Ars Technica , it talks about the Core Animation feature which seems like a very powerfu...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

iPhone SDK, Leopard and 1.1.2

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As I suspected, Apple plans to release an SDK for native apps on the iPhone next year. The official word is on Apple's Hot News site . T...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

WWJD - What Would Jobs Do...

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Somewhere in Apple there is a product team with a plan. We now have observed several steps unfolding in this plan, so I'm going to put m...