February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Mike McConnell from Booz Allen Hamilton and former director of the NSA and former Director of National Intelligence talked about protecting state secrets in the cloud. As the drivers of technology and standards brings about changes, we have to add economics as another driver, because we need…
February 23, 2012, Berkeley, CA – At the Berkeley Engineering research conference (BEARS2012) there was a breakout session from the BWRC group on the advances and long term directions in wireless communications and networking. The breakout was led by Ken Lutz, the Director of the center followed by a presentation by Prof. Jan Rabaey which…
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Paul Jacobs from Qualcomm suggested that mobile devices are the development platform for innovation. These devices are fertile grounds for new features and capabilities. Through long partnerships with Cal, they have done research into ubiquitous swarms, cloud, mobile access, and sensor swarms. All…
February 14,2011, RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco–Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com presented his thoughts on security in the cloud. Computers have been on a 10 year major revision cycle since the ’60’s. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers in the ’70’s, which in turn were eclipsed by client/server configurations in the ’80’s. The PC…
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise…