Tekla Perry - Slashdot User

Submission + - Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe for a Better Oven (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @01:51PM

Tekla Perry writes: We cook our food today using technology invented to bake bricks. We can do a lot better. Nathan Myhrvold explains what's wrong with today's ovens and challenges oven designers make them better.

Submission + - Aircraft disappear from European air traffic control radar

Submitted by Bruce66423 on Friday June 13, 2014 @09:51AM

Bruce66423 writes: Over the course of a month some 13 aircraft at high altitude disappeared from the screens according to http://www.independent.co.uk/n... The article quotes 'unnamed experts' that 'interference between the aircrafts' transponders and ground control was apparently to blame'. Really?

Submission + - Post-Snowden, Silicon Valley Execs Give U.S. Cyberpolicy a D-minus (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @01:01PM

Tekla Perry writes: Stanford President John Hennessy, VC Mark Andreessen, and other Silicon Valley leaders discuss the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, and conclude that it's a disaster for the tech industry, and that the U.S. has a critical 12 to 24 months to figure out a better cyberpolicy or face long term damage.

Submission + - After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry on Friday May 30, 2014 @12:46PM

Tekla Perry writes: Former Sun executives and employees gathered in Mountain View, Calif., in May, and out came the "real" stories. Andy Bechtolsheim reports that Steve Jobs wasn't the only one who set out to copy the Xerox Parc Alto; John Gage wonders why so many smart engineers couldn't figure out that it would have been better to buy tables instead of kneepads for the folks doing computer assembly; Vinod Khosla recalls the plan to "rip-off Sun technology;" and more.

Submission + - The Augmented Reality America's Cup (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:48PM

Tekla Perry writes: In "The Augmented Reality America's Cup" (http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/the-augmented-reality-americas-cup) Stan Honey and Ken Milnes describe the positioning, communications, graphics, and augmented reality technology they developed that will be used in the upcoming America's Cup races and, they hope, will change the way sailing is televised and watched forever after. Honey and Milnes pioneered car navigation with the startup Etak, and changed the way we watch football on TV with Sportvision's yellow line.

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