Immersive Labs builds ads that know you very, very well - Apr. 14. Immersive Labs' software gathers intel on viewers -- and then crafts a message targeted just for them. Click here to see it.By Laurie Segall, staff reporter April 21, 2011: 12:38 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Imagine an ad that stares back at you when you glance at it -- analyzing your face, your age, and who you're with. Then imagine that ad going one step further, changing its message to display something its analysis suggests will hook you. That's what Immersive Labs, a New York City startup launching this week, is trying to do.
The software they attach to digital billboards tracks everything from viewers' demographic profiles -- their age, gender, and estimated attention span -- to how many people they're with and how long they spend viewing the ad. Walking by a billboard on a chilly day? It's all part of an effort to personalize ads and make them smarter. "The real focus is artificial intelligence -- so that ads can learn and improve over time," says Immersive Labs CEO Jason Sosa. New Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Computing Traffic to Grow 12-Fold by 2015; Cloud to be 51 percent of Data Center Workloads by 2014. SAN JOSE, Calif.– Nov. 29, 2011 – In the inaugural Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) issued today, Cisco estimates global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, a 66 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR.
One zettabyte is equal to a sextillion bytes or a trillion gigabytes―1.6 zettabytes is approximately equivalent to: 22 trillion hours of streaming music. 5 trillion hours of business Web conferencing with a webcam. 1.6 trillion hours of online high-definition (HD) video streaming. Cloudis the fastest growing component of data center traffic, which itself will grow 4-fold at a 33 percent CAGR to reach 4.8 zettabytes annually by 2015. Cloud is also estimated today to be 11 percent of data center traffic, growing to more than 33 percent of the total by 2015. Cloud is becoming a critical element for the future of information technology (IT) and delivery of video and content. Overview Workload transition. Jim Blinn. James F. Blinn is a computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project,[1] his work on the Carl Sagan Cosmos documentary series and the research of the Blinn–Phong shading model.
Biography[edit] In 1970, he received his bachelor's degree in physics and communications science, and later a master's degree in engineering from the University of Michigan. In 1978 he received a Ph.D. in computer science from the College of Engineering at the University of Utah. Blinn devised new methods to represent how objects and light interact in a three-dimensional virtual world, like environment mapping and bump mapping. Publications[edit] Awards[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Blinn’s Law and the paradox of efficiency « Alec Nevala-Lee. As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. —Blinn’s Law Why isn’t writing easier? Looking at the resources that contemporary authors have at their disposal, it’s easy to conclude that we should all be perfect writing machines: word processing software has made the physical process of writing more streamlined than ever, Google and Amazon have given us access to a world of information that would have been inconceivable even fifteen years ago, and research, editing, and revision have been made immeasurably more efficient.
And yet writing itself doesn’t seem all that much easier than before. So what happened? Similarly, whatever time I save by writing on a laptop rather than a manual typewriter is canceled out by the hours I spend making additional small changes and edits along the way. And yet here’s the thing: I still needed all that time. Like this: Like Loading... Cisco Lays Out Agressive Strategy to Capture More Cloud Business - Arik Hesseldahl. Networking giant Cisco Systems has been angling to be a serious provider of cloud technology for a few years now, but hasn’t really laid out a strategy for how it intends to get there. Now that I think about it, it will be exactly a year ago tomorrow that I did my very first AllThingsD interview with Lew Tucker, Cisco’s CTO for cloud computing. Today, Cisco finally laid out a cohesive strategy to become a significant player in the cloud business.
It announced an offering called CloudVerse that combines three big elements — its Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network and Cloud Applications — into a big portfolio aimed at companies building out their data centers. The idea is basically this: If you want to build a cloud, either to resell cloud services of some kind or for your company’s own internal operations, Cisco wants to talk to you. Under the CloudVerse tent are a bunch of offerings including computing, networking, collaboration and software for automating and managing it all. Amazon Web Services.