eComm08 Millicomputing Talk on Video

Video of my talk at eComm08, along with about 40 other talks...

eComm08 Millicomputing Talk

Here is a nice picture by Duncan Davidson of me,  speaking at eComm.

The talk went well and the conference was excellent. Very well setup and run as a single stream of short talks. The Computer History Museum in Mountainview was an inspired choice of venue.

My slides in pdf form at at this link.

The talk is a more technical version of the BIL talk I gave a few weeks ago. It is focussed on the next few generations of mobile devices - "The Future In Your Pocket". Some key ideas from the talks and discussions I had on this subject at BIL and eComm08:

• Pocket devices double capacity every year (laptop every two years)
• Intel will drive power down further to compete with ARM
• Intel x86/x64 in my pocket means I can use desktop versions of apps like Skype
• Wireless high-definition video out is a key new feature we could use today
• It's a server in my pocket, web services, video streaming etc.
• More performance at lower power in the future allows always-on services
• Ambient presence placing OpenAL 3D audio sources in the back of your head
• Stereo audio sunglasses with video camera, heads-up display
• Brainwave sensor (See Neurosky) input controller, records your stress/mood
• Lifelogging - permanently archive everything you hear, see and feel
• Telepathy - real-time, many to many lifelogging - immersive relationships
• Virb-ing - virtual/real blending Second Life or WoW into lifelogs and telepathy
• The killer app for teenagers in 2010 perhaps?

Emerging Communications Conference - EComm March 12-14

The EComm Conference is a spiritual successor to last year's O'Reilly ETel conference (I was there). It's the brainchild of Lee Dryburgh, who took over when O'Reilly decided not to repeat ETel, and has created a very interesting conference with a lot of good speakers.

Its taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, CA March 12-14th. The speakers are rapid fire in short time slots, and I'm presenting on Millicomputing on the morning of March 14th for 15 minutes...

I'm going to focus my talk on a hardware roadmap for mobile CPU's and Flash over the next few years, to give people some idea of the capabilities to expect from portable communication devices, and to discuss the battle that is expected as Intel and ARM come at the market from opposite ends of the spectrum.

On Wednesday 12th, the Homebrew Mobile Phone club will be holding a special meeting in the Museum, held jointly with the EComm event.