Category «Technology»

New hardware and systems technology.

Moving to Saluda Medical

Today I’m starting in a new role as Systems Engineering team lead at Saluda Medical – a medical device startup company. We’re working on a new technology for closed loop control for spinal cord stimulation that will target the treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain.  This is a great group of people and a technology with …

I was an Apple Mac kid

Don was an Apple II kid, and he credits Apple with helping him dive so deep and so early into writing software.  I never had an Apple II, but I got a taste of that kind of experience with the Vic-20 at home, and the BBC computer room at school. But then, we upgraded our …

Congratulations Marek and Innoboard Team!

Marek Kowalkiewicz from the SAP Research in Brisbane just last week won the international “Demo Jam” competition in the SAP TechEd event in LA, for the “Innoboard” software.  Innoboard is an augmented reality technology, which lets distributed teams interactively share whiteboards that mix projected images and physical sticky post-it notes.  All using the low-cost iphone …

Windows 7 Deletes all my Shortcuts

Stuff has started mysteriously disappearing from my desktop.  I had installed Fences, so thought that was the culprit, and uninstalled it.  But the problem keeps happening, and it turns out that Windows 7 is causing my pain. Windows runs a weekly maintenance task that deletes all your shortcuts if it thinks you have more than …

Invention vs Innovation

Just heard in a QESP webinar on Software Innovation in Australia from Julian Day of the Australia Consensus Awards: In business, invention is the conversion of cash into ideas, but innovation is the conversion of ideas into cash. Nice.  I see this is also on wikipedia.  I wonder what’s the original source for this quote?

Open Source Project Management Tools

I need to create some simple project schedules at work.  I used to have MS Project installed, but when I upgraded to Windows 7, my new SOE didn’t have MS Project.  So, I googled for open source project management tools.  I remember doing this years ago, and didn’t find anything compelling.  Now, there’s lots of …

Developing Whole Verified Embedded Systems

NICTA’s recent Techfest in Sydney saw a flurry of news around the announcement of a significant research achievement- the formal verification of the seL4 microkernel. The team developed a mathematical proof of the functional correctness of the microkernel down to the level of the C source code. The achievement is important for two reasons. Firstly, …

The Next Big Thing?

How can you tell what the next big thing is going to be? Google’s pagerank algorithm will tell you what web pages have been important enough in the past for other people to have linked to.   Google trends will tell you what search terms people have been using recently, again in the past. What …

My First Mobile Phone

A couple of weeks ago I caught up with the 20th century and got my first mobile phone. I also leaped into the future because my phone is the Google Dev Phone 1 – an unbranded HTC Dream running Google’s Android operating system. There aren’t many Android phones available on the market right now, but …