3D printing the past and future
Some 90 years ago, the fossilized skull of an early hominid was found in Africa. Two things made this fossil unique: The first [...]
AuthorBarton Satchwill
Life on the Render Farm
What happens when you move from a world of scarcity to a world of plenty? How does your thinking change? What becomes possible? [...]
Startup Edmonton starts on the right foot
On the evening of May 10th, Barton and I went to the grand opening of the new Startup Space at Startup Edmonton. [...]
Touching the tip of the iceberg — a look back at Canada’s first “big data” conference
Last week, Edmonton was the site of Canada’s first ‘Analytics, Big Data and the Cloud’ conference, hosted by ABCtech, the University of Alberta School [...]
First meeting of the Canadian OpenStack Users Group
Last week, we held the inaugural meet-up of the Canadian OpenStack Users Group at the University of Alberta. Cybera has been working with [...]
Making the final connection: rural broadband adoption
While the problems of rural internet connectivity are not yet fully resolved, a coalition of groups has come together to consider the next [...]
Better health care needs better technologies
The use of technology to deliver health care in Alberta seems… stalled. So I was pleased to be able to attend a conference [...]