Real-time Intelligence: Accelerating Time-to-Insight
Today at the Spark Summit in San Francisco I announced the latest milestone in our initiative with Apache Hadoop* and Apache Spark* communities and their ecosystems to accelerate Big Data analytics....
View ArticleIntel® Cloud for All initiative to Invest in OpenStack Community
Intel is a strong believer in the value cloud technology offers businesses around the world. It has enabled new usage models like Uber*, Waze*, Netflix* and even AirBnB*. Unfortunately, access to this...
View ArticleUsing UDK2015 for UEFI 2.5 Development
Intel Software recently released the UEFI Development Kit 2015, often referred to as UDK2015, which supports development for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Specification 2.5....
View ArticlePowering the Next Wave of Enterprise Cloud Deployments
I continue to be amazed by the size of the enterprise cloud opportunity ahead of us and the speed at which it’s moving. By 2020, 50 billion devices will connect to the Internet, and up to 85% of...
View ArticleCrypto Is Hard! Even Malware Developers Get It Wrong
Over this past weekend, I was catching up on my RSS feeds when I saw a number of articles like this one over at Ars Technica talking about a new piece of ransomware. Ransomware itself isn’t new. It’s...
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I sold my dad his first computer. It was 1977, the year that Radio Shack launched it’s groundbreaking personal computer, the TRS-80. This was by far the best summer job I had during high school,...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about Python you learned from Harry Potter
There’s a great little cartoon which shows Harry Potter wielding his wand against a large snake and hurling a spell. One friend says “I didn’t know Harry spoke Python,” because of course the spell is a...
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Why the Yocto Project isn’t called “Linux”
Juliet: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) Is it true that a name is simply an arbitrary label with no particular...
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What does Node.js mean for WordPress?
If you are a fan of PHP for developing web applications (as I am), you could feel the world shift a bit as it was announced that WordPress was switching from PHP to Node.js. Don’t think of WordPress...
View ArticleIntel Open Source Graphics Drivers Now Support Vulkan™
Today I am proud to share that Intel is among a select group of leading graphics platform suppliers with Vulkan* 1.0 drivers certified by the Khronos Group Consortium. Vulkan is the new generation of...
View ArticleUEFI Tools … They’re Not Just for Hackers Anymore
There are some great tools available for unpacking UEFI images. This is wonderful if you want to learn more about firmware … but it might be bad news if you’re developing firmware without security in...
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Gravity Waves, Python, Intel and the Billion-year Bong
Like many who earned their degree in the sciences, I was required to take a year of physics in university. Vectors, forces, all that stuff. We learned space is not some empty homogeneous volume, but...
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An accepting space for women in open source
One of my daughters is in her 20s and still struggling to find a career. She asked me what programming language she should learn and I suggested Python. “In fact,” I said, “you should try to attend a...
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Updates to Tianocore, an open source UEFI community
For years, Intel has hosted an open source UEFI implementation at tianocore.org. Now that community is getting a big upgrade. The UEFI Forum held a UEFI Plugfest last month in Taipei. Plugfest events...
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Recognizing leading contributors to an open source project
Our community engagement team behind the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) is recognizing leading contributors to the project at this year’s OSCON. The activity, taking shape as something of a contest,...
View ArticleOpenStack. Open Source. Open Mind.
One of the greatest business lessons the late Intel CEO Andy Grove gave us is that we have two choices: adapt or die. It’s also a hard message to take. Typically it’s only when something goes really...
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Finding a kernel 1-2-3 bug by running Wind River Simics on Simics
I must admit that I love stories about bugs, strange and unexpected software behaviors, and debugging. They provide comic relief and drama in the supposedly dry world of software development. Some bugs...
View ArticleCrosswalk security vulnerability
There was recently a security vulnerability reported to the Crosswalk team. I want to talk about this vulnerability here because this is how vulnerabilities should be handled. In Intel’s Open Source...
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Linux at 25: Leading the Open Source Revolution
Where were you August 25, 1991? I can’t recall exactly where I was or what I was doing, but I can tell you that day has had a profound effect on my life and career. Twenty-five years ago today, Linus...
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Open source software is leading us into a technical utopia
It’s unlike anything else in any industry. Open source software can turn individual developers into influencers overnight. Free enterprises from decades-long licensing dependencies. Turn startups into...
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