A few weeks back, I was talking to EDS marketing. They interviewed me for some thoughts on technology innovation during a downturn in the economy. I spoke with them about the intersections of technology and how those possibilities grow exponentially.
This week, while reading and working out (that's the only time I have to read magazines), I came across an article about the new types of computing we can expect, in the April edition of Computer magazine. The article was about our being poised for a resurgence of Complex Event Processing (CEP), and echoed many of my perspectives.
I first ran into CEP back in the Tandem Zero Latency Environment days of the mid-‘90s. This past week, I spoke with some folks in HP research who were involved in it back then, and are still working to advance these concepts. They're focused on pattern recognition in screams of information; it's just that now we may have the computing horsepower and the flexibility to begin to apply these techniques more often.
I'm always looking for examples, so that when someone tries to put me on the spot (when they ask for real world examples of technologies 5-10 years out), I have something they can relate. It's interesting how when you're talking about the future vision, people always want examples today. Of course if there really are solid examples today, it wouldn't be a future vision.
