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Joris _

Moonshots - Solve for X - 2 views

www.solveforx.com/moonshots

innovation

shared by Joris _ on 18 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 18 Jun 13
     
    A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and collaboration.
jcunha

A view at Google X philosophy - 1 views

www.ted.com/...benefit_of_celebrating_failure

Google X moonshot projects

shared by jcunha on 18 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 18 Apr 16
     
    A TED talk about Google X way of working and some closer look at the project loon (stratospheric balloon network for internet connection) by the 'moonshot captain' Astro Teller.
Luís F. Simões

HP Dreams of Internet Powered by Phone Chips (And Cow Chips) | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...1

INF hardware NRG energy data mining

shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • For Hewlett Packard Fellow Chandrakat Patel, there’s a “symbiotic relationship between IT and manure.”
  • Patel is an original thinker. He’s part of a group at HP Labs that has made energy an obsession. Four months ago, Patel buttonholed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Aspen Ideas Festival to sell him on the idea that the joule should be the world’s global currency.
  • Data centers produce a lot of heat, but to energy connoisseurs it’s not really high quality heat. It can’t boil water or power a turbine. But one thing it can do is warm up poop. And that’s how you produce methane gas. And that’s what powers Patel’s data center. See? A symbiotic relationship.
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  • Financial house Cantor Fitzgerald is interested in Project Moonshot because it thinks HP’s servers may have just what it takes to help the company’s traders understand long-term market trends. Director of High-Frequency Trading Niall Dalton says that while the company’s flagship trading platform still needs the quick number-crunching power that comes with the powerhog chips, these low-power Project Moonshot systems could be great for analyzing lots and lots of data — taking market data from the past three years, for example, and running a simulation.
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Nov 11
     
    of relevance to this discussion: Koomey's Law, a Moore's Law equivalent for computing's energetic efficiency http://www.economist.com/node/21531350 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/13/2148202/whither-moores-law-introducing-koomeys-law
Luís F. Simões

The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors - 4 views

www.fastcompany.com/...the-google-x-factor

google innovation

shared by Luís F. Simões on 16 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Space elevators, teleportation, hoverboards, and driverless cars: The top-secret Google X innovation lab opens up about what it does--and how it thinks.
  • Thijs Versloot on 16 Apr 14
     
    Interesting insight indeed, I see quite some overlap with the ACT mantra, athough they have 250 people and an outdoor playground.. To Teller, this failure-loving lab has simply stepped into the breach. Small companies don't feel they have the resources to take moonshots. Big companies think it'll rattle shareholders. Government leaders believe there's not enough money, or that Congress will characterize a misstep or failure as a scandal. These days, when it comes to Hail Mary innovation, "Everyone thinks it's somebody's else's job," Teller says.
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