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A Proposal for an Autonomous Vehicle Mobile Laboratory
Transforming stupid cars into smart cars is the endgame of the Mobile Autonomous Automobile Laboratory (MAAL) project. In his presentation, renowned car designer, Michael Robinson outlines plans for creating a platform that will enable vehicle designers to move from designing objects to designing experiences. The first 30 minutes of his presentation discuss the challenges that…
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SDN and NFV Takeaways from Light Reading’s Network Components conference in Santa Clara
Introduction: For years, we’ve been reading and hearing about the never-ending boom in data traffic, the need for fast provisioning, agile networks, service velocity (quicker time to market for new services) for telcos, etc. It’s been like a non-stop siren call to battle for network operators. Yet little has been done to date to remedy…
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Viodi View – 11/17/14
“The past is to learn from, not to live in.” – Everett Christensen, author of 73 Magic Management Words +2, as well as owner of the Independent broadband provider, Christensen Communications. The past couple of weeks there have been ample opportunities for me to look at the past. It’s easy to only see the positive in the past…
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Autonomous Vehicles Parallel Broadband
Find a New Audience and Be a Rock Star A lesson learned many years ago is that one way to look like a “rock star” is to speak to a group that doesn’t know much about your topic. In my case, a talk I gave in June 1993 regarding cable modems to telephone and fiber…
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Viodi View – 11/03/14
Taking care of their own, finding and nurturing local talent and giving back to the community sets the San Francisco Giants apart from other professional sports organizations, to paraphrase one of the many speakers at the boisterous parade held for the improbable 2014 World Series Champions. It was also said that this sort of event is one…
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Autonomous Vehicle View – 11/03/14
[Note: This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive.] Riding my bike yesterday in a neighborhood bypassed by the relatively new wealth generated by the tech companies of Silicon Valley, I spotted an…
Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley