Building a PC for the Grid
When I was a kid, I built ham radio equipment and other electronic kits (see https://www.johnpatrick.com/hobbies/ham-radio/). Fast forward to 70 and I decided to build a PC. One of my sons gave me an AMD Multi-core CPU for Christmas. I purchased the other components from Amazon and other sites. Pictures of the components are on […]
World Community Grid – Zika
The World Community Grid has brought hundreds of thousands of people and millions of computers together from across the globe to create the largest non-profit computing grid benefiting humanity. It does this by pooling surplus computer processing power from users’ PCs. Although the PC will be the minority participant in the networked world compared to […]
Speaking in Paris – 1996
Speaking in Paris – 1996 I was one of the cofounders of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT in 1994. I remember our first meeting with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, that December. Eighteen months later, the W3C held a global conference in Paris, France. I was honored to be the […]
Healthcare in the Rain
It looks like tomorrow will be a rainy day in Ridgefield. When the forecast says 100%, it is usually correct. It will be a great day to be in the cozy Ridgefield Playhouse to talk about healthcare. The event begins at 5:30 PM. The focus will be the American healthcare system. I will discuss the problems: cost, […]
Entrepreneurs Demo in SoHo to Change Healthcare
One of the key problems in our healthcare system is the high cost. Innovation can play an important role in driving costs down. This week, I attended Blueprint Health‘s ninth Demo Day. Blueprint Health is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator program in NYC, supporting entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies at the intersection of health and technology. […]
