When the world’s most powerful supercomputer goes online in 2011, it won’t come pre-installed with user-friendly software applications. Not to worry! To solve that problem, The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation will spend the next three years ramping up for the world’s first sustained petascale computational system by developing new computing software, applications and […]
Anthony Pigliacampo wrote me last night in response to my Geek Project’s bleg: So I have to admit, I cheated. My background is in product design, I worked for a few years at IDEO and designed products for everyone from Proctor and Gamble to Nike. We didn’t mean to exclude people with education or work […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post entitled “Projects” about two inventions: a solar-powered backpack hotspot, and an all-electric motorcycle. The first project has been completed, and the second is an ongoing project that Micah of “Event Horizon” is working on. These projects were unrelated except that both are efforts by individuals to […]