The pitter patter of small feats** a.k.a. Trajectory & locus of my world (at different levels of depth, expertise & concentration)

 

  1. A few instances from my Journey from 32K EEPROM and C/CPM to Clouds and Social Networking
  2. Lego Robotics

My missives

 

Current Focus

  • Cloud Computing
    • Started thinking about a Cloud Control Plane
    • Erlang, Paxos and DHT for clouds [Just started]
    • Architecture & Implementation of a Computing Cloud based on a "Cloud of unreliable stuff" for network based services
  • Social & Knowledge Networks
    • DYMO & NHDP for Social & Knowledge Graphs ! (Have a short proposal on this to Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge. A la Netflix-IMDb combination - long shot, but stranger things have happened; it might come thru !)
    • Implementing OpenSocial [Just started]
  • iPhone programming
  • Writing a Book "Web 2.0 Enterprise Edition - A Blueprint" (I wanted "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Enterprise Web 2.0 Galaxy", but marketing might not allow it)
    • Web 2.0 EE (Enterprise Edition) is very different from consumer Web 2.0 CE (Consumer Edition). This book will examine the business & techno aspects of Web 2.0 EE
  • Participating in OpenAJAX Alliance 
    • Semantic search overlay for a derivative / tagging based collaborative content creation & aggregation (for school lesson plans)
      • We want 20 relevant results not 100,000 results
      • A derivative based, repurposable, remixable, on-demand interchange multi-media content capability (it sounds more lofty than it actually is ;o))
      • Ability to meaningfully stitch a fabric from a vast sea of materials which differ in granularity and format diversity
      • Ability to perform semantic search on the federated content with attributes meaningful to teachers

 

A few instances from my Journey from 32K EEPROM and C/CPM to Clouds and Social Networking

  • 32K - that is all we had for developing Real Time Control Apps (& that includes UI on TeleRay! CHR$(27)[1;1)
  • C/CPM - Yep, have developed multi-core apps years ago (actually on 8086,macBasic with two tasks in two buffers) for testing aircraft engines
  • UI with effects like venetian blinds - PEEKing and POKEing at B8000 (if you know what I mean ! And then protected mode came - no PEEKing anmore ;o()
  • Have developed Control software - PID Controls et al - for aircraft engines, Caterpillar transmissions, binary nozzles for air flow,... (Using Turbo Pascal!)
    • Think of reliability one needs, when our software is running an aircraft engine at 30,000 rpm and 300% load (and ou are standing nearby looking at the debug screen!)
  • Languages worked on include Ada,Cobol (yep, still remember those pesky 99V99s),Pascal,(some) C, Java, now started looking at Ruby & Erlang
  • Lotus Notes API programming
  • Security architecture for eSpeak
  • NIST PKI Workshop participation
  • Sensor Networking
  • MANET & network-centric operations
  • The world of ebXML,RosettaNet,B2B, XML, Tibco,...
  • Participating and representing my compan at ETSI STF, W3C, OASIS, JCP et al
  • Guest Lectures at the Naval PG School, Monterey
  • Application Oriented Networking
  • Web System for logistics compan - work load manager et al
  • Distributed Precision Time Synchronization in the order of microSeconds
  • And now Cloud Computing, social and knowledge graphs, OpenSocial et al...

 

Lego Robotics

  • Tech Judge - First Lego League (FLL) Word Festival Atlanta : 2007, 2008
  • Judge Adviser/Tech Judge at North CA tournaments
  • Rube Goldberg machines using Lego

 

Publications

  • Article in ACM Queue on Application Oriented Networking
  • Co-author : 21 habits of effective Network-centric Operations (Book submitted to US Nava Institute for publishing)
  • Lead Author - Cisco Press Book Cisco Wireless LAN Security
  • Co-Editor w/ IBM : Adaptive Services Framework
  • Contributed to Air Force C2RA (C2 Enterprise Technical Reference Architecture)
  • Lead Author/Co-author of 7 books on Java/Internet (They are too old, don't buy them ;o))

 

**[June 17, 2007] I got the idea for the title from the recent Dr.Dobbs Journal last page; will link it when I find it 
 


Page Information

  • 3 days ago [history]
  • View page source
  • You're not logged in
  • No tags yet learn more

Wiki Information

Recent PBwiki Blog Posts