More eResearch Conference, Utopia

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Last days of the eResearch conference were quite enjoyable. Was interviewed by a PhD candidate on wearable computing, had a good discussion with the developers of Yabi and especially integration with Karaage, and submitted an abstract for the upcoming Higher Education Technology Agenda conference, as a contributing response to the almost specious Ernst and Young paper on University of the Future. Final evening was a dinner with a number of Sydney-siders, including laptop006, v3nu5, Jiri, and Daniel T.

Returning to Melbourne, Saturday witnessed Wellington visitors tatjna and ferrouswheel a tour of Willsmere along with a pleasing typical afternoon of a long lunch and boardgames. Sunday gave a presentation at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on Utopian Tragedies : Cautionary Tales for the Philosophy of Politics - again impressed by the turnout to these events, given how little advertising is done. Managed to reread most of the texts listed prior the actual sessions and read Christianopolis for the first time, a somewhat under-rated text. Earlier that morning attended St. Michael's Uniting Church and officially became a member (such is the path of the religious atheist).

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"Wearable computing"?
You're light-years beyond me. I'm still in the Stone Age !!!

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Well, given that my partner has an insulin pump, "wearable computers" is pretty much part of the household... In less invasive sense the contemporary mobile phone is a wearable computer.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what they are ! Thanks for the info !
: )

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Of course, something to keep in mind is that as according to Moore's Law (which remains amazingly accurate even after all this time), that every five years or so, capacity will roughly increase by an order of magnitude.

So if we have mobile phones with quad-core 1.6 GHz processors now, which pretty much has all the capabilities of a fairly decent low-end desktop system (certainly better than anything I have in the house), what the next several years should bring will be truly amazing.

EDIT. Plus this article on manycore mobiles just published.

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Many thanks !