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BlogsTags > InternetBurning the silosBy Mike LoukidesMay 23, 2013 If I’ve seen any theme come up repeatedly over the past year, it’s getting product cycle times down. It’s not the sexiest or most interesting theme, but it’s everywhere: if it’s not on the front burner, it’s always simmering in … Where will software and hardware meet?By Jon BrunerMay 8, 2013 I’m a sucker for a good plant tour, and I had a really good one last week when Jim Stogdill and I visited K. Venkatesh Prasad at Ford Motor in Dearborn, Mich. I gave a seminar and we talked at … Four Short Links: 7 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 7, 2013 Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit allows your to easily select between several attack modes and is specifically designed to … Strata Week: The power of the Internet, wielded by machines and thingsBy Jenn WebbMay 3, 2013 Soon, everything will be an Internet platform Ben Schiller at Fast Company took a look this week at a recent report by Jon Bruner on the industrial Internet. “According to Jon Bruner [the industrial Internet] is ‘machines becoming nodes on … Four short links: 5 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 5, 2013 Millimetre-Accuracy 3D Imaging From 1km Away (The Register) — With further development, Heriot-Watt University Research Fellow Aongus McCarthy says, the system could end up both portable and with a range of up to 10 Km. See the paper for the … Four short links: 1 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 1, 2013 MLDemos — an open-source visualization tool for machine learning algorithms created to help studying and understanding how several algorithms function and how their parameters affect and modify the results in problems of classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, dynamical systems and … The coming of the industrial internetBy Jon BrunerMarch 27, 2013 Download this free report(PDF, Mobi, EPUB) The big machines that define modern life — cars, airplanes, furnaces, and so forth — have become exquisitely efficient, safe, and responsive over the last century through constant mechanical refinement. But mechanical refinement has … Four short links: 19 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 19, 2013 VizCities Dev Diary — step-by-step recount of how they brought London’s data to life, SimCity-style. Google Fibre Isn’t That Impressive — For [gigabit broadband] to become truly useful and necessary, we’ll need to see a long-term feedback loop of utility … Security on the industrial InternetBy Jon BrunerMarch 8, 2013 Security must evolve along with the industrial Internet. The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s centrifuges in 2010 highlighted both the risks of web-borne attacks and the futility of avoiding them by disconnecting from the Internet (the worm spread, in part, using … Four short links: 5 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2013 Eulerian Video Magnification — papers and the MatLab source code for that amazing effect of exaggerating small changes in file. (*This work is patent pending) CopyrightX — MOOC on current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that … New vision in old industryBy Jon BrunerFebruary 28, 2013 Nathan Oostendorp thought he’d chosen a good name for his new startup: “Ingenuitas,” derived from Latin meaning “freely born” — appropriate, he thought, for a company that would be built on his own commitment to open-source software. But Oostendorp, earlier … Four short links: 28 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 28, 2013 Myth of the Free Internet (The Atlantic) — equity of access is an important issue, but this good point is marred by hanging it off the problematic (beer? speech? downloads?) “free”. I’m on the council of InternetNZ whose mission is … Masking the complexity of the machineBy Jon BrunerFebruary 15, 2013 The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of larger systems that can take advantage of the most … Frozen turkeys are thermal batteriesBy Jim StogdillFebruary 11, 2013 I went to San Diego two weeks ago for DistribuTECH as part of our ongoing investigation into the industrial Internet. DistribuTECH is a very large conference for electric utility operators in the U.S. and while I was there ran into … DIY robotic hands and wells that text (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerFebruary 7, 2013 Two makers come together to make a robotic hand for a boy in South Africa (TechCrunch) — The maker movement is adjacent to the industrial Internet, and it’s growing fast as a rich source of innovative thinking wherever machines and software meet. … Four short links: 7 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 7, 2013 Tridium Niagara (Wired) — A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control electronic door locks, lighting systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, … Go to Washington, build the industrial InternetBy Jon BrunerFebruary 5, 2013 The White House has issued its call for the second round of Presidential Innovation Fellows, and it includes an invitation to spend a 6- to 12-month “tour of duty” in Washington, building the industrial Internet — or, more precisely, helping the … Hacking robotic arms, predicting flight arrival times, manufacturing in America, tracking Disney customers (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerJanuary 31, 2013 Flight Quest (GE, powered by Kaggle) — Last November GE, Alaska Airlines, and Kaggle announced the Flight Quest competition, which invites data scientists to build models that can accurately predict when a commercial airline flight touches down and reaches its gate. … Four short links: 31 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 31, 2013 Courier Prime — tweaked Courier “for screenplays” (!). (via BoingBoing) The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society (PDF) — education is dangerous to female extended family members. As can be seen in Table 1, when no … Four short links: 28 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 28, 2013 Aaron’s Army — powerful words from Carl Malamud. Aaron was part of an army of citizens that believes democracy only works when the citizenry are informed, when we know about our rights—and our obligations. An army that believes we must … The driverless-car liability question gets ahead of itselfBy Jon BrunerJanuary 25, 2013 Megan McArdle has taken on the question of how liability might work in the bold new world of driverless cars. Here’s her framing scenario: Imagine a not-implausible situation: you are driving down a brisk road at 30 mph with a car … The bicycle barometer, SCADA security, the smart city in a disaster (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerJanuary 24, 2013 The Bicycle Barometer (@richardjpope) — Richard Pope, a project manager at Gov.uk, built what he calls a barometer for his bike commute: it uses weather and transit data to compute a single value that expresses the relative comfort of a bike … Broadening the value of the industrial InternetBy Jon BrunerJanuary 24, 2013 The industrial Internet makes data available at levels of frequency, accuracy and breadth that managers have never seen before, and the great promise of this data is that it will enable improvements to the big networks from which it flows. … Four short links: 23 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 23, 2013 These Glasses Thwart Facial Recognition Software (Slate) — good idea, but don’t forget to put a stone in your shoe to thwart gait recognition too. opsec for Hackers (Slideshare) — how boring and unexciting most of not getting caught is. … Strata Week: Political data mining “bait-and-switch”By Jenn WebbJanuary 18, 2013 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Inaugural 2013 app takes as much as it gives The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) launched the first official inaugural smartphone app, Inaugural 2013 (for iOS … Seeing peril — and safety — in a world of connected machinesBy Jon BrunerJanuary 18, 2013 I’ve spent the last two days at Digital Bond’s excellent S4 conference, listening to descriptions of dramatic industrial exploits and proposals for stopping them. A couple of years ago Stuxnet captured the imagination of people who foresee a world of … The software-enabled cars of the near-future (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerJanuary 17, 2013 OpenXC (Ford Motor) — Ford has taken a significant step in turning its cars into platforms for innovative developers. OpenXC goes beyond the Ford Developer Program, which opens up audio and navigation features, and lets developers get their hands on … Defining the industrial InternetBy Jon BrunerJanuary 11, 2013 We’ve been collecting threads on what the industrial Internet means since last fall. More case studies, company profiles and interviews will follow, but here’s how I’m thinking about the framework of the industrial Internet concept. This will undoubtedly continue to … Industrial Internet links: smart cities return, pilotless commercial aircraft, and moreBy Jon BrunerJanuary 7, 2013 Mining the urban data (The Economist) — The “smart city” hype cycle has moved beyond ambitious top-down projects and has started to produce useful results: real-time transit data in London, smart meters in Amsterdam. The next step, if Singapore has … Four short links: 31 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2012 Wireless Substitution (BoingBoing, CDC) — very nice graph showing the decline in landlines/growth in wireless. Maker’s Row — Our mission is to make the manufacturing process simple to understand and easy to access. From large corporations to first time designers, … The industrial Internet from a startup perspectiveBy Jim StogdillDecember 20, 2012 I don’t remember when I first met Todd Huffman, but for the longest time I seemed to run into him in all kinds of odd places, but mostly in airport waiting areas as our nomadic paths intersected randomly and with … Three lessons for the industrial InternetBy Mac SlocumDecember 19, 2012 The map of the industrial Internet is still being drawn, which means the decisions we’re making about it now will determine the extent to which it shapes our world. With that as a backdrop, Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) used his presentation … Interoperating the industrial InternetBy Mike LoukidesDecember 17, 2012 One of the most interesting points made in GE’s “Unleashing the Industrial Internet” event was GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s statement that only 10% of the value of Internet-enabled products is in the connectivity layer; the remaining 90% is in the … To eat or be eaten?By Mike LoukidesNovember 30, 2012 One of Marc Andreessen’s many accomplishments was the seminal essay “Why Software is Eating the World.” In it, the creator of Mosaic and Netscape argues for his investment thesis: everything is becoming software. Music and movies led the way, Skype … New data competition tackles airline delaysBy Jon BrunerNovember 29, 2012 The scenario is familiar: a flight leaves the gate in New York on time, sits in a runway queue for 45 minutes, gets a fortuitous reroute over Illinois, and makes it to San Francisco ahead of schedule — only to … Software that keeps an eye on GrandmaBy Jon BrunerNovember 21, 2012 Much of health care — particularly for the elderly — is about detecting change, and, as the mobile health movement would have it, computers are very good at that. Given enough sensors, software can model an individual’s behavior patterns and … Four short links: 20 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 20, 2012 When Transaction Costs Collapse — As OECD researchers reported recently, 99.5 per cent of reciprocal access agreements occur informally without written contracts. Paradoxically, as competition becomes more intense or ”perfect”, it becomes indistinguishable from perfect co-operation – a neat trick … Four short links: 19 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 19, 2012 Wing Man — Mac app for source control management with git, implements workflow rather than simply being a wrapper for git commandlines. CodeKit — Mac app for web developers, automates (invisibly, thanks to watching filesystem changes) much of the web … Software that keeps an eye on GrandmaBy Jon BrunerNovember 15, 2012 Much of health care — particularly for the elderly — is about detecting change, and, as the mobile health movement would have it, computers are very good at that. Given enough sensors, software can model an individual’s behavior patterns and … Two crucial questions for the smart gridBy Jon BrunerOctober 31, 2012 In a lively panel discussion at last week’s IEEE Industrial Electronics Society meeting in Montreal, two questions related to the smart grid (the prospective electrical distribution system that will set prices dynamically and let consumers sell electricity to other users … Four short links: 30 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 30, 2012 Fastly’s S3 Latency Monitor — The graph represents real-time response latency for Amazon S3 as seen by Fastly’s Ashburn, VA edge server. I’ve been watching #sandy’s effect on the Internet in real-time, while listening to its effect on people in … Listening for tired machineryBy Jon BrunerOctober 26, 2012 Software is making its way into places where it hasn’t usually been before, like the cutting surfaces of very fast, ultra-precise machine tools. A high-speed milling machine can run at 42,000 RPM as it fabricates high-quality machine components within tolerances … Industrial Internet linksBy Jon BrunerOctober 24, 2012 By mayoral proclamation this is NYC Data Week, featuring lots of events that bring together innovators who work with data in any capacity. To see the industrial Internet as it’s being approached by entrepreneurs and hackers, be sure to stop … What I learned about #debates, social media and being a pundit on Al Jazeera EnglishBy Alex HowardOctober 22, 2012 Earlier this month, when I was asked by Al Jazeera English if I’d like to be go on live television to analyze the online side of the presidential debates, I didn’t immediately accept. I’d be facing a live international audience … Industrial Internet linksBy Jon BrunerOctober 16, 2012 Here’s a broad look at a few recent items of interest related to the industrial Internet — the world of smart, connected, big machines. Smarter Robots, With No Wage Demands (Bloomberg Businessweek) — By building more intelligence into robots, Rethink … How we can consumerize health careBy DJ PatilOctober 16, 2012 Recently I wrote about one of my key product principles that is particularly relevant for designing software for the enterprise. The principle is called the Zero Overhead Principle, and it states that no feature may add training costs to the … Investigating the industrial InternetBy Jon BrunerOctober 11, 2012 Consumer networks have revolutionized the way companies understand and reach their customers, making possible intricate measurement and accurate prediction at every step of every transaction. The same revolution is underway in our infrastructure, where new generations of sensor-laden power plants, … Four short links: 9 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 9, 2012 Finland Crowdsourcing New Laws (GigaOm) — online referenda. The Finnish government enabled something called a “citizens’ initiative”, through which registered voters can come up with new laws – if they can get 50,000 of their fellow citizens to back them … Four short links: 5 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 5, 2012 Improving Content ID (YouTube) — finally they’re adding some human intervention to lower the number of false positives. OECD’s Internet Economy Outlook (OECD) — lots of stats, from growth of streaming media to crime and EHRs. This caught my eye: … Four short links: 3 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 3, 2012 Mil-OSS 4 — 4th military open source software working group conference, in Rosslyn VA. Oct 15-17. Tutorials and sessions will cover: Linux, Geospatial, LiDAR, Drupal, cloud, OSS policy and law, Android and many other topics. The last day will have … 1 to 50 of 131 Next Stay Connected
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