tech

Marshall McLuhan was right

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The medium is the message.

Mocap in action

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I was one of 50 people invited to Ubisoft’s unveiling of their new state-of-the-art motion capture (mocap) studio in Toronto.

A successful hackathon at our Kitchener campus!

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An amazing 3-day event sponsored by Microsoft.

Arcade game CPUs

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Being in tech, I ALWAYS want to know what's driving my tech.

How the term 'cloud' was invented

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To us IT folks, it was quite obvious...

QNX on a moon rover

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A new project - we'll see where it goes...

SOPA and PIPA

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This week has been an amazing week for digital free speech - it was the first time that copyright abuse by organizations/lobbyists has been brought to the attention of the general population en mass.

2011 in review

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This has been one heck of a year, that’s for sure! So, I’ll spend this post reflecting on some of the key events that have happened to me personally, within the tech industry, and around the world in general (with my cheeky perspectives of course).

Hard drives are dead

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Poor hard drives. Is their time really at an end?

The transputer

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Have you heard of the transputer? Probably not. But in the mid 1980s, many people in computer science thought it was going to be “the future computer,” including one of my computer science professors at the University of Waterloo.