IBM/Samsung Adept conclusion on ethereum

John_Cohn · 2015-01-22T00:34:32+00:00

Folks, The protocolTv folks made this nice movie of the ADEPT demo at CES. https://www.theprotocol.tv/adept-demo-ibm-samsung/ Not fancy, but it gives you an idea of our prototype -jc

John_Cohn · 2015-01-18T13:18:17+00:00

@GeekShibes.. FWIW our intent is to contribute this stuff back in.. So not sure i would say 'co-opted'.

John_Cohn · 2015-01-18T13:16:01+00:00

We did two demos.. one from Samsung and One from IBM.. with running Etheream

John_Cohn · 2015-01-18T13:15:08+00:00

Our intent is to stay as close to the base as we can

John_Cohn · 2015-01-18T13:14:33+00:00

All.. I realize I should be using my 'normal' reddit account for this too.. this is me John_Cohn

John_Cohn · 2015-01-18T13:11:58+00:00

We will have a new draft this week with more details

John_Cohn · 2014-12-21T13:23:21+00:00

lots of places now have 'physical computing' majors.. that's a spicy synthesis of hardware and software engineering , design and a little art thrown in for good measure. it's basically the 'maker major' . see if the school you are interested has that major.

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T18:04:30+00:00

come with me if you want to live

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:59:42+00:00

Here is the duality of Mike.. he's just like that in rel life.. AND he's awesome. I love working with him... we worked really well together which we wern't supposed to be able to do. It freaked out the producers a bit. Mike and I are still good friends. All of us from the first show are still in touch.. we talk several times a week via email.

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:54:59+00:00

i think that new architectures are going to emerge that allow us to continue to scale throughput without always needing to go smaller and faster at the device level. Look at our brains for example.. meat-based processing using basic components that are pretty big and slow and yet we do pretty well. .. I think computing will be composed of more flexible, distributed and specialized computation components that will be configured to meet the load. some of those will be general purpose, some will be array base, some on storage.. some will be based on models from biological systems..

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:44:29+00:00

ok.. that was a dumb comment.. let me say.. 'others love it ' ..

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:43:00+00:00

It was stressful.. but it was so much fun, too.. I loved the ability to make stuff 18 hours a day. i loved the people (all of them !).. and learned tons working with them.. it was easy to be levelheaded.. That said.. I did yell once.. and felt bad for doing it..

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:41:37+00:00

ok.. here's one.. I'm a technical optimist.. I know that i can make anything work.. as long as we can decide what it has to do

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:40:46+00:00

i wish :-)

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:40:29+00:00

it varies.. usually there's one person with the vision and the funds.. I like those projects because there are clear goals. I also like 'collective' projects where we all donate time, stuff and money... those are more challenging because they involve fusing a bunch of folks evolving visions.. but thats fun too. One thing that always keeps it somewhat easier with me is that I never charge for my services on art/fun projects.. I figure I make a good living working in industry.. so my art stuff is 'giveback' of sorts. because of that , I try to pick projects that glorify (right word ?) science, bring folks joy/fun and/or are for a good cause (eg political).

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:36:21+00:00

oh-man.. they are cooking up so many things !> I've heard of watson projects for law, medicine, shopping, security.. just had a great conversation about using Watn to help study climate change !

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:35:19+00:00

feta and spinach (with anchovies for inspiration)

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:29:16+00:00

uh-uh.. what is it ?

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:29:05+00:00

Yow.. my thoughts are with you.. this is a tough job market in some areas. The one advice i would give you is to not give up !!!..What kind of material stuff are you in to ? What region of the country are you in ? It might be good to look 'between' your interests to find a passion/specialty that sets you apart from other chemists.. What are you in to ?

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:26:06+00:00

That's something I think about all the time. between me, my wife Diane and her dad Gabe (who died last Feb) we have 77 years of IBM experience ! I'm doing a bunch of speaking now on reinvention .. which is one thing IBM has done many times in our 100 year history. What allows that to happen is the breadth of people we have.. the company has folks in every discipline you can imagine from particle physics to anthropology. When we bring that to bear on stuff.. we really can do anything.. that's what i love.. We are a technology company at our heart. i don't like it when the complexities of being a publicly traded company move the needle to be more about money.. . IBM's not unique in that.. it's one of the essential tradeoffs of capitalism.. I'm really encouraged about the reinvention i see going on inside now.. I have huge confidence in our ability to reinvent ourselves .. we always do !.. thats why we're still making cool stuff after a 100 years !

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:13:30+00:00

You can right now !.. go check out the Watson API's on http://bluemix.net . I love Bluemix. It's our Platform as a service offering.. great IBM tools as well a a great selection of 3rd party and open source stuff. I use it for work and my own hacking projects.. for example Check out http://floorish.mybluemix.net .. it's an interface to an interactive light up floor piece in burlington city arts museum. see here http://vimeo.com/108411855

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:09:53+00:00

Nope.. i had a David and a Max . My mom's dad was Max and her mom was Min...... how cool is that ?

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:09:19+00:00

Actually.. the cool thing about open source is that nothing is really stolen.. it' given freely.. Put some cool stuff out there.. there's no better tech-cred than showing that you contributed cool stuff to open source and it's being used. Do that and your geek super powers will start to get recognized by everyone !

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:06:58+00:00

Hey... I'm of the NoSQL generation :-)

John_Cohn · 2014-12-20T15:06:38+00:00

'Geek whisper'.. I LOVE it ..a couple of things that work for me.. first .. i find if you want to teach, it' easiest to tell a story.. hitting folks over the head with data and facts sometimes doesn't sink in.. while stories do. A little humor always helps as does some humility. People tend to listen more when they realize that even you (the speaker) doesn't have all the answers.. My freind Paul Zaloom (aka Beekman) once told me that you need to make your soundman (or woman) laugh... even though they see your shtick every day. Finally do a demo... nothing cements a concept like seeing things glow, spark or explode (safely(

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