Interview: Bernardo Huberman – Social Computing

Bernardo Huberman Bernardo Huberman is one of only four Senior Fellows at HP Labs – the most distinguished technologists in the company. He runs the Social Computing Lab. His research focus is on the behavior of millions of people using the internet and how this can be analyzed and predicted. He is recognized around the world as an authority on how people communicate and collaborate on the Internet. His lab has recently developed Cloudprint, which lets you store documents in the cloud so you can retrieve and print them on any printer using a mobile phone.

Bookies at Racetrack One amusing way of illustrating his research in everyday terms is the choices people make when they place bets. Using the patters of behavior that the bookmakers need to understand to make a living, he looks at predictions we can make in corporate purchasing departments and other business settings.

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Interview: Chandrakant Patel – Sustainable IT

Chandrakant Patel I blogged on Chandrakant’s work measuring lifetime energy use last December. He runs the Sustainable IT Lab at HP.

In this podcast, he expands on the issues he’s researching on least use of energy, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and using Joule’s as a measurement of energy consumption.

In our discussion, Chandrakant refers to the following sketch he created to show ‘cradle-to-cradle’ energy use.

Energy Use