Friday, March 18, 2011
Gluster (storage folks behind Pandora) adopts OpenStack and talks datacenters and cloud
Gluster http://www.gluster.com/ provides the storage behind the music service, Pandora, and this week they announced support for OpenStack, which will make moving data from cloud service to service easier, because the platform underneath is open source. Here Ben Golub, CEO, talks to us about this decision and what's happening in data centers. More on this news here: http://www.gluster.com/2011/03/15/gluster-joins-openstack-community-2/
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Im About To Whip Somebody's Ass
As the story goes...............
Hi, my name is ray and on yesterday my daughter called me, hum it to yourself, the words are, I'm about to whip somebodies ass oh if you don't leave me allow their gunna have to send me home cuz...
Behind the Webb: Wax On, Wax Off
The making of the Webb Space Telescope's mirrors is a complex process. Each surface must be precisely shaped to capture and direct the maximum amount of light to the telescope's detectors. The mirrors must be ground and polished to a smooth curve that keeps light from bouncing off in unwanted directions. Join us at Tinsley Laboratories in Richmond, Calif., where engineers are bringing Webb's mirrors to their exact requirements.
"Behind the Webb" is an ongoing series that follows the construction of the Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor. Find more episodes at Hubblesite.org.
"Behind the Webb" archive
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/behind_the_webb/archive/
The Webb Telescope: Technology at the Extremes
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/technology_at_the_extremes/
Webb Space Telescope mirrors Tinsley Laboratories
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
David Brooks: Columnist
About this talk
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.
Why you should listen to him:
Writer and thinker David Brooks has covered business, crime and politics (as well as subbing in as the Wall Street Journal's movie critic) over a long career in journalism. He's now an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in a legendary run that started in September 2003.
His column looks deeply into the social currents that underpin American life. He's the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. His newest book, The Social Animal, examines new findings in brain science in the context of a story about two succesful people whose lives unfold in ways that neurological research is helping us understand more deeply.
Brroks is a frequent analyst on NPR’s All Things Considered and a commentator on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
About this talk
With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek.
Rob Harmon is an expert on energy and natural resources policy -- looking at smart ways to manage carbon, water and the energy we use every day.
Why you should listen to him:
Taking the true measure of our environmental footprint is something that Rob Harmon has been doing for years. Starting as an energy auditor in Massachusetts, Harmon went on to manage an international marketing effort in the wind energy industry and, in 2000, develop and launch the first carbon calculator on the Internet.
Harmon joined Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in 1999, and is credited with developing their Green Tag program. In 2004, he was awarded the national Green Power Pioneer Award for his introduction of the retail Green Tag (Renewable Energy Certificates) and his ongoing efforts to build a thriving and credible Green Tag market in the United States. He also conceptualized and directed the development of BEF's national Solar 4R Schools program. His latest venture is the creation of BEF's Water Restoration Certificate business line, which utilizes voluntary markets to restore critically de-watered ecosystems. He recently contributed chapters to the book Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. Rob left BEF in November 2010 to explore his next venture, ConvenientOpportunities.com.
Robot solves Rubik’s Cube in 15 seconds
A Rubik’s Cube has been sitting on Joe Ridgeway’s shelf since he was a child, but it wasn’t until he was studying at Rowan University that he fully embraced its challenge…
In a project that started in a Rowan course, Ridgeway and Zachary Grady, both senior electrical and computer engineering (ECE) majors, have built a robot that solves the cube in 15 seconds.
The Rubik’s Cube-Solving Robot, a year in the making, has earned the duo more than 17,000 hits on YouTube and a congratulatory note from Erno Rubik himself. And though it’s not yet official, they are confident, based on their research, that the robot is the fastest of its kind…
The robot wastes little time – after 17 moves, it twirls the descrambled cube in a modest celebration.
Ridgeway, 21, and Grady, 22, made the machine from scratch, they said, working under the guidance of Mease and ECE chair Shreekanth Mandayam and with mechanical-engineering help from graduate student Karl Dyer.
Japan Earthquake Live
continued...............
Watch the dramatic scenes as the tsunami smashes the Iwate prefecture in Japan.
Smashed by Tsunami
The-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor
Watch the dramatic scenes as the tsunami smashes the Iwate prefecture in Japan.
Smashed by Tsunami
The-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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