The following advertisement just came through my inbox via a mailing list at work. This is one of those treasured moments when I realize how awesome it is to work at Microsoft. Want to build the w...

Over the course of time I’ve worked for and with a great many enterprises. Some public, some private, some “key players”, some “boutique” – almost every one of those collaborations was driven by a ...

I lend on Kiva. I lend to women (individually and in collectives). I lend in the poorest regions of the world. I used to believe, but I know: if we empower women we change the world I first star...

I just returned from giving a talk at the Linux Foundations Embedded Linux Conference in San Jose. It was an excellent event with very good information working in the embedded space, and it didn’t ...

This week at Mobile World Congress 2015 (in Barcelona), the AllSeen Alliance invited me to give a talk on Open Sourcing the User Experience for the Internet of Things. In order to drive the message...

Today, Felix Rieseberg, Ville Rantala, and I present this talk and demos in the AllSeen Alliance track at Mobile World Congress. Our talk, like much of our work, is focusing on advocating for the d...

This week I gave a talk about IoT, AllJoyn, and the complexity of building products at the Linux Foundations annual Collaboration Summit. I was a bit concerned, I haven’t spoken to this particular ...

I came to the MIT Enterprise Forums Connected Things 2015 conference to talk about AllJoyn and Interoperability; but through a series of humorous mishaps I ended up getting upgraded to sitting on a...

I’m spending the weekend at the Hackster.io hackfest, focused on IoT hardware projects in Seattle. Here’s a quick rundown of the first day so far: Lots of good ideas are born quickly and easily...

I’m posting this on my blog. I have retrieved it from a strange online archive of old newspaper articles. This is important for me to save because Charles Kolar, identified below, was my great uncl...