Hi. I'm back blogging. I'm also struggling. I need to finish my Dr. by December. I'm sure i can do it. This is a short blog. More tomorrow.
Carol
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Successful Prediction
President John F. Kennedy said "We will go to the moon this decade". This video depicts his confidence that the US could create the technology to go to the moon within 10 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyYM-dUgCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhIjI_N1Pk&feature=related
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he expressed during a 1961 speech:
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
The problems and risks were discovered as the engineers discovered new technologies. And it all came down to the quote:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong
It was so amazing. Look at all the inventions that came from this directive by President Kennedy. Computers, Velcro, new metals (mylar) and many other discoveries were made during all of the Apollo missions.
Citations are the websites above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyYM-dUgCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhIjI_N1Pk&feature=related
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he expressed during a 1961 speech:
"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
The problems and risks were discovered as the engineers discovered new technologies. And it all came down to the quote:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong
It was so amazing. Look at all the inventions that came from this directive by President Kennedy. Computers, Velcro, new metals (mylar) and many other discoveries were made during all of the Apollo missions.
Citations are the websites above.
Do you remember the Jetson's? Future Prediction
Do you remember the Jetson’s? Their flying cars were very well designed and although we don’t know what they ran on for fuel it seems there was a predefined air highway for the traffic to be controlled. There were floating stop lights and even places to land at restaurants and events. I believe there will be flying cars in the next 15-25 years for two reasons.
Risk is a factor when you get anyone behind the wheel of a car. Even today’s cars are at risk of having a flat tire and swerving into traffic or just plain not paying attention to what is around you. We can run out of gas or even not get the oil changed which will eventually lead to a breakdown. This could be fatal in a flying car with the drop to the ground.
Will there be additional pollution? Work has already begun on alternative clean fuel sources for these “cars”. Efficiency is another factor that is already being worked on at Boeing.
Will there be mid-air crashes? With the use of “smart software” like “Highway in the sky” the craft would be made so there is space around it and the software can detect obstacles and maneuver around them.
(picture from http://www.onepicturesworth.com/)
1. Work has already started on the flying cars and continues to improve on ideas and innovations as there is a real need to change the way we commute.
2. The cost of road maintenance is getting extremely expensive as we rely on oil products for taxes to maintain them.
UPDATE: Here's a link to the article page at treehugger.com
UPDATE II: And here's a link to a 60 minutes print story on "flying cars" that also mentions the Cartercopter and “Highway in the Sky”.
UPDATE II: And here's a link to a 60 minutes print story on "flying cars" that also mentions the Cartercopter and “Highway in the Sky”.
Risk is a factor when you get anyone behind the wheel of a car. Even today’s cars are at risk of having a flat tire and swerving into traffic or just plain not paying attention to what is around you. We can run out of gas or even not get the oil changed which will eventually lead to a breakdown. This could be fatal in a flying car with the drop to the ground.Will there be additional pollution? Work has already begun on alternative clean fuel sources for these “cars”. Efficiency is another factor that is already being worked on at Boeing.
Will there be mid-air crashes? With the use of “smart software” like “Highway in the sky” the craft would be made so there is space around it and the software can detect obstacles and maneuver around them.
www.Auto.howstuffworks.com
How do you keep your children safe? The size of the flying cars are very small, no minivan here. I believe there will be modifications to the cars once the technological details are perfected. Then designs will change to accommodate the largest families.
How much will it cost? Right now the costs are high but as the technology is perfected, the prices will align more with regular cars today. One of the prototypes is $50,000 and a Cadillac Escalade today sells for $75,000. I believe the financial savings will outweigh the costs. There are a lot fewer crashes of airplanes with the tight control of the airspace.
Halal, W. E. (2008). Technology’s Promises. Palgrave MacMillan
Sherden, W. A. (1998). The fortunes Sellers
Simon, B. (2005) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454_page3.shtml © MMV, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved
Halal, W. E. (2008). Technology’s Promises. Palgrave MacMillan
Sherden, W. A. (1998). The fortunes Sellers
Simon, B. (2005) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454_page3.shtml © MMV, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Web 2.0 tools
I found a new tool that is absolutely fabulous. Takes still photos and creates a 3-d rendering of the scene. Check out Photosynth.. in order to view you may have to download and install Photosynth from here.. http://photosynth.net/default.aspx
This is from Microsoft labs. It only works on Windows XP and Vista right now but Mac should follow shortly. Check out the wedding, zoom in and out.
Carol
This is from Microsoft labs. It only works on Windows XP and Vista right now but Mac should follow shortly. Check out the wedding, zoom in and out.
Carol
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Predicting the future
Lots of tools are available to predict the future results of businesses. I have been reading about predictive analytics and how it takes data mining and business data build a model that will predict which ads to put on a website, or what customers will want to purchase from the department stores.
The Wikipedia definition is "predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events." Developing a model is necessary to capture the relationships between the data This enables prediction of future results. Predictive analytics uses confirmed relationships between explanatory and critеrion variables from past occurrences to predict future outcomes. The predictions are most often values suggesting the likelihood а particular behavior or event will take place in the future.
The Wikipedia definition is "predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events." Developing a model is necessary to capture the relationships between the data This enables prediction of future results. Predictive analytics uses confirmed relationships between explanatory and critеrion variables from past occurrences to predict future outcomes. The predictions are most often values suggesting the likelihood а particular behavior or event will take place in the future.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
As the Future Catches You
I have been reading this book and it has interesting themes and subthemes. The major theme of the book is that poverty is caused by lack of education. This seems like a logical conclusion until you consider politics and economic data on top of it. Consider the African nations and the Middle East, countries that are in turmoil. Look at China and other "conflict countries" where the top engineers are jumping to other countries which allow original thinking. Consider lip-syncing because the child is not representative of the country as in the opening ceremonies; or the questions on the age of the gymnastics team of China.
The book concentrates on the knowledge and science information. I remember a few years ago when there was a project that went to schools to interest girls in science. This was a very successful project but has since run out of funding. If the US is to compete in the next 10-15 years investing in science education would be the best investment that could be made. Why? The Olympics get a lot of press, but the advances in sciences gets little or no attention but create a lot of wealth. However, science is creating new opportunities in every genre, i.e. Chemistry, BioInformatics, Nano-technology, Artificial Intelligence and future innovation.
I would like to be at the forefront of these technologies and have the research grants to do this type of innovation. Our world could be the Utopia that was Star Trek where there is no monetary gain from working, but it is a global economy the invests in education for all and technology benefits everyone.
The book concentrates on the knowledge and science information. I remember a few years ago when there was a project that went to schools to interest girls in science. This was a very successful project but has since run out of funding. If the US is to compete in the next 10-15 years investing in science education would be the best investment that could be made. Why? The Olympics get a lot of press, but the advances in sciences gets little or no attention but create a lot of wealth. However, science is creating new opportunities in every genre, i.e. Chemistry, BioInformatics, Nano-technology, Artificial Intelligence and future innovation.
I would like to be at the forefront of these technologies and have the research grants to do this type of innovation. Our world could be the Utopia that was Star Trek where there is no monetary gain from working, but it is a global economy the invests in education for all and technology benefits everyone.
Artificial Intelligence
I have been finding a lot of applications of artificial intelligence that is highly funded for research in labs. University of Arizona has a AI lab that has funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Dr. H. Chen is developing applications for law enforcement that can detect terrorist activity in many genre's such as CopLink application that can collect information from many different law enforcement agencies and put it together to solve crimes.
These applications use intelligent agents and neural networks to gather information from the sources, i.e. internet and databases, then using the complex event processing algorithms gather the information and analyze for the intelligence. The intelligent agents will be used in Web 3.0 to get the right travel reservation without the user digging through hundreds of offers. This sound too good to be true, but it is only a few years away.
More later....
These applications use intelligent agents and neural networks to gather information from the sources, i.e. internet and databases, then using the complex event processing algorithms gather the information and analyze for the intelligence. The intelligent agents will be used in Web 3.0 to get the right travel reservation without the user digging through hundreds of offers. This sound too good to be true, but it is only a few years away.
More later....
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Changing my Blog site
I decided to add the You Tube spot after watching Johnny Lee and his WII remote video. I will try to create a video of my own and post it as well. Do you suppose that the small demonstration by Johnny Lee will be the beginning of the Holodeck from Star Trek? It seems feasible once you plot all the dots in LED light. Not sure where I'm going with this but is an idea.
Anyway I signed up for the technology You Tube videos so they might not be very good, but then again will be interesting to see.
Carol
Anyway I signed up for the technology You Tube videos so they might not be very good, but then again will be interesting to see.
Carol
Failed Predictions and Technology
With the amount of communication we have today it is tough to go back to 1961 and remember a different time when there were wires all over the place for telecomunications. The Internet was not even an embryo at this time. Space travel was a race between the Soviets and US since Sputnik had flown in space. Satellites were in their infancy. Today the massive amount and the differenet uses of them could not have been dreamt by the 1961 FCC Commissioner.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/satellite1.htm
Sputnik 1 the first satellite
“There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.” — T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, in 1961 (the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965).
To think that we use Satellites for many applications today that were predicted to fail. Television and movies in every home, radio, internet and spying are all applications satellites are used for today.
How satellites are launched into orbit.
Here are some more quotes the the Satellite have overcome.
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.
“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical (sic) and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” - Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later.
“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936.
“Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.” — Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
These are a few of the missed predictions. There are many more at this site.
http://listverse.com/history/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/
Class in Second Life Tues 8/5
Creating objects seems to get easier as you learn more about the vectors and setting to use with the objects. Experimenting can help you create even more out of this world objects in SL. I enjoyed out discussion on Truth and Myth last night. It really was a nice hour + to spend on a Tuesday. It surprises me how tired I get in the Virtual World. My connection kept breaking up on me though, need a new cable on my router.
My description of the Virtual computer might develop a little differently taking one or two applications and being able to get their tough points and visually see them in the VW will be interesting enough. I have to come up with the shapes of the objects to better visualize what they will do.
My description of the Virtual computer might develop a little differently taking one or two applications and being able to get their tough points and visually see them in the VW will be interesting enough. I have to come up with the shapes of the objects to better visualize what they will do.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
CS 855 Notes from Second Life Conversation
The project for the class – this is a working idea. Responses welcome.
Take a 2d view of the network and make it 3d so you can fly or teleport from one application or area to another. Take a diagram of all the NOC (network operations center), the infrastructure, databases, applications and any touch points. Cast can take the 2d information gathered by Cast of all the applications and hardware and database and prototype a 3d world of the applications.
Consider receiving or calling a person on another floor or in another city and instantly be in a face to face via teleport to have the conversation and see the gestures in person. Open an application and get teleported to the exact data you are searching for.
Multiple offices in the country, how about a group of branches that when they send in their business teleport right to the location it belongs.
I’m proposing to prototype this maybe in several connected worlds for the project.
Second Life is great. I flew a flying ship without crashing tonight. Great fun!
Take a 2d view of the network and make it 3d so you can fly or teleport from one application or area to another. Take a diagram of all the NOC (network operations center), the infrastructure, databases, applications and any touch points. Cast can take the 2d information gathered by Cast of all the applications and hardware and database and prototype a 3d world of the applications.
Consider receiving or calling a person on another floor or in another city and instantly be in a face to face via teleport to have the conversation and see the gestures in person. Open an application and get teleported to the exact data you are searching for.
Multiple offices in the country, how about a group of branches that when they send in their business teleport right to the location it belongs.
I’m proposing to prototype this maybe in several connected worlds for the project.
Second Life is great. I flew a flying ship without crashing tonight. Great fun!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Mistakes are the windows of discovery
James Joyce - Fits well with our sentiment. Thought I would share.
carol
carol
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Links to inventors
Here is a link to some other predictions.
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/tp/Future_Techno.htm
I read the interesting article on Fusion and found it understandable. It can be found here
Fusion Report 13 June 008
Amazing how a few failures can make so many discoveries.
From flying cars to Highway in the Sky. "If someone can think of it, it's probably being worked on."
Very interesting.
See you soon!
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/tp/Future_Techno.htm
I read the interesting article on Fusion and found it understandable. It can be found here
Fusion Report 13 June 008
Amazing how a few failures can make so many discoveries.
From flying cars to Highway in the Sky. "If someone can think of it, it's probably being worked on."
Very interesting.
See you soon!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
My Web 2.0 tools
I like to use Itunes to listen to the Dave Ramsey radio show.
I like the community on mytotalmoneymakeover.com
I use Wikipedia to get started with my searches
Secondlife.com for school although I haven't figured out how to get to other places yet.
Email - outlook at work Entourage at home
Haven't used Google docs yet but have used google maps and yahoo maps
My home page is Yahoo.com (in my browser)
I use Firefox and firebug at work and firefox at home since that is on the Mac.
For creating websites I've used Frontpage and Word.
I have an account on Ebay and with paypal.
I use SAP marketplace to log cases for Business Objects.
That's about it. See ya later.
I like the community on mytotalmoneymakeover.com
I use Wikipedia to get started with my searches
Secondlife.com for school although I haven't figured out how to get to other places yet.
Email - outlook at work Entourage at home
Haven't used Google docs yet but have used google maps and yahoo maps
My home page is Yahoo.com (in my browser)
I use Firefox and firebug at work and firefox at home since that is on the Mac.
For creating websites I've used Frontpage and Word.
I have an account on Ebay and with paypal.
I use SAP marketplace to log cases for Business Objects.
That's about it. See ya later.
My flight home
Ok. The plane from CS to Denver was on time and all was fine. It was packed as usual. We left CS at 10:15 am. Got into Denver for the flight to Sioux Falls. That flight left right on time at 1:04 pm. About half way through the flight the pilot gets on the intercom and announces we are turning back to Denver. There was a problem with the pressurization of the cabin. Big problem at 65000 feet, -10f degrees. We got back to Denver and they "found" us a new plane which was leaving around 3:30. Not too bad but there it is. The flight attendant was very nice, filling my wine glass from the first class bottle (3 times no charge). A little tipsy getting into Sioux Falls, but happy too.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Class on Saturday
Here is the table of Future technology we wrote during our brainstorming session. I found it interesting the similarities our list had compared to the table of Kahn's predictions on page 173 or the Fortune Seller book.
Our list:
Medical
Nano Parts
Cybernetics - Bio-Cyber Blend
Genetics
Improved med diagnosis and treatments including Smart Drugs – promoting longevity
Weather:
80% accurate Weather forecasts
Hurricane Beans
Pollution
Under Sea Living
Solutions to trash
Transportation
Inexpensive Alternative fuels
Defeat Gravity/ Hover cars
Cold fusion Power Generations
Teleportation
Distance Travel in space
Self healing highways
Computing
Quantum Computing
New frontiers in wireless
Cell phone projection/ input
There it is. The same issues we face today are the same ones that Kahn predicted would already be in place by the year 2000.
Our list:
Medical
Nano Parts
Cybernetics - Bio-Cyber Blend
Genetics
Improved med diagnosis and treatments including Smart Drugs – promoting longevity
Weather:
80% accurate Weather forecasts
Hurricane Beans
Pollution
Under Sea Living
Solutions to trash
Transportation
Inexpensive Alternative fuels
Defeat Gravity/ Hover cars
Cold fusion Power Generations
Teleportation
Distance Travel in space
Self healing highways
Computing
Quantum Computing
New frontiers in wireless
Cell phone projection/ input
There it is. The same issues we face today are the same ones that Kahn predicted would already be in place by the year 2000.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Residency
The classes have been very interesting and it is amazing how discussion makes you remember the major points of what you have seen or read. This week has been exhausting and exhilarating. The discussions in class have really made me think.
I'm missing Sunday session since my flight is at 10:00 AM and I need to leave for the airport to be on time. My son is providing transportation.
Sorry for missing the dinner tonight but I really needed time for my family.
I hope we will all graduate together in September. See you soon!
Sincerely,
Carol
605-553-2784
I'm missing Sunday session since my flight is at 10:00 AM and I need to leave for the airport to be on time. My son is providing transportation.
Sorry for missing the dinner tonight but I really needed time for my family.
I hope we will all graduate together in September. See you soon!
Sincerely,
Carol
605-553-2784
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Wednesday July 16.
Well my boarding passes are printed and I am getting the last load of clothes dry so I can pack. I leave from Sioux Falls at 4 pm today and arrive in CS at 6 pm. I look forward to seeing everyone out there.
I'm getting addicted to TED. I like all the new devices for medicine and the concept that conservation of fuel. The $100 computer concept is exceptional. I really like the stories that these people tell.
See you all soon!
Carol
I'm getting addicted to TED. I like all the new devices for medicine and the concept that conservation of fuel. The $100 computer concept is exceptional. I really like the stories that these people tell.
See you all soon!
Carol
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Introduction
About me
Hi all, my name is Carol
I live in Tea, SD and just moved there this past September. I have 2 kids and 2 grandkids.
My area of expertise in in Business Intelligence specifically Business Objects.
In 10-15 years we will need a better health care system with nano technologies repairing the body. I like the idea of a health monitor at home too. I feel we also need to be completely free from oil for fuel consumption.
New modes of transportation that are inexpensive for people to use that would save energy and be safe. Artificial Intelligence for business in making decisions.
Hi all, my name is Carol
I live in Tea, SD and just moved there this past September. I have 2 kids and 2 grandkids.
My area of expertise in in Business Intelligence specifically Business Objects.
In 10-15 years we will need a better health care system with nano technologies repairing the body. I like the idea of a health monitor at home too. I feel we also need to be completely free from oil for fuel consumption.
New modes of transportation that are inexpensive for people to use that would save energy and be safe. Artificial Intelligence for business in making decisions.
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