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Brad Ideas: Documentary on the first six programmers funded and going into production
I am pleased to report that a documentary on the first software developers, the 6 women who were hired to program the ENIAC — the first electronic computer — has after many years received a funding grant sufficient to produce it.Back in the 9...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (393 words)
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Brad Ideas: Automating big-event parking
There are a growing number of apps designed to help people find parking, and even reserve and pay for parking in advance. Some know the state of lots. These apps are good for the user but also can produce a public good by reducing the number of people ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (432 words)
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Brad Ideas: We need a security standard for USB and other plug-in devices
Studies have shown that if you leave USB sticks on the ground outside an office building, 60% of them will get picked up and plugged into a computer in the building. If you put the company logo on the sticks, closer to 90% of them will get picked up and...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 1:15am -07:00T (980 words)
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Brad Ideas: Daimler appears to have pulled back on the S-class traffic jam assist
Hints from the release this week of the 2014 Mercedes S-Class suggest that it doesn’t have the promised traffic jam assist.The S-class only gets major updates infrequently, though an intermediate update will come in 2017.
A story on Auto Express quo...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 12:15pm -07:00T (414 words)
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Brad Ideas: New surveys with growing acceptance levels
Some interesting robocar surveys are out.Today, a survey conducted by cisco showed very high numbers of people saying, “yes, they would ride in a robocar.” 57% said yes globally, with 60% in the USA and an incredible 95% in Brazil. (Perhaps...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 12:15pm -07:00T (336 words)
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Brad Ideas: Radio show on Robocars, Tuesday the 14th at 7pm PDT
I will be a guest on Tuesday the 14th on a the “City Visions” program, produced by one of San Francisco’s NPR affiliates, KALW. The show runs at 7pm, and you can listen live and phone in (415-841-4134), or listen to the podcast later. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 3:15pm -07:00T (124 words)
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Brad Ideas: Moonshots, laws, Tesla and other recent robocar news
Here’s a roundup of various recent news items on robocars. There are now a few locations, such as DriverlessCarHQ and the LinkedIn self-driving car group which feature very extensive listing of news items related to robocars. Robocars are now ge...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 9:15pm -07:00T (1024 words)
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Brad Ideas: ESticks -- a standardized quick-swap battery proposal
You’ve probably noticed that with many of our portable devices, especially phones and tablets, a large fraction of the size and weight are the battery. Battery technology keeps improving, and costs go down, and there are dreams of fancy new chemis...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 3:16pm -07:00T (543 words)
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Brad Ideas: Anatomy of the first robocar accidents
I have prepared a large new Robocar article. This one covers just what will happen when the first robocars are involved in accidents out on public streets, possibly injuring people. While everybody is working to minimize this, perfection is neither pos...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 1:15pm -07:00T (471 words)
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Brad Ideas: Oh Hugo Awards, where have you gone?
I follow the Hugo awards closely, and 20 years ago published the 1993 Hugo and Nebula Anthology which was probably the largest anthology of currently released fiction ever published at the time.The Hugo awards are voted by around 1,000 fans who attend the...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 9:45pm -07:00T (437 words)
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Brad Ideas: Oliver Kuttner on Very-Light-Car
Last year, I met Oliver Kuttner, who led the team to win the Progressive X-Prize to build the most efficient and practical car over 100mpg. Oliver’s Edison2 team won with the VLC (Very Light Car) and surprised everybody by doing it with a liquid f...
Dateline: 2013-04-17 6:15pm -07:00T (417 words)
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Brad Ideas: A Bitcoin Analogy
Bitcoin is having its first “15 minutes” with the recent bubble and crash, but Bitcoin is pretty hard to understand, so I’ve produced this analogy to give people a deeper understanding of what’s going on.It begins with a group of f...
Dateline: 2013-04-16 1:01pm -07:00T (434 words)
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Brad Ideas: We Robot Robot Law Conference and Robot Block Party
It’s National Robotics Week, and various events are going on — probably some in your area.Today and Tomorrow I am at the We Robot conference at Stanford, where people are presenting papers puzzling over how robots and the law will interact. ...
Dateline: 2013-04-09 12:45am -07:00T (262 words)
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Brad Ideas: The Personal Cloud and Data Deposit Box
Last night I gave a short talk at the 3rd “Personal Clouds” meeting in San Francisco, The term “personal clouds” is a bit vague at present, but in part it describes what I had proposed in 2008 as the “data deposit box”...
Dateline: 2013-04-06 4:30pm -07:00T (424 words)
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Brad Ideas: Speaking on Personal Clouds in SF, and Robocars in Phoenix
Two upcoming talks:Tomorrow (April 4) I will give a very short talk at the meeting of the personal clouds interest group. As far as I know, I was among the first to propose the concept of the personal cloud in my essages on the Data Deposit Box back in ...
Dateline: 2013-04-03 5:15pm -07:00T (237 words)
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