Over 250 attendees!

Slides for this AI conference I helped organise together with Amazon, Qualcomm and Iotic online here

For those people kind enough to listen to my presentation at the Science Museum on the CDC 6600 for Cambridge Wireless Wireless Heritage SIG ‘The Old Greys to Flash Mob Kensington’ event here are a handful of links with more information

• Here is the link to the PDF of the fabulous little book showing how to design a super computer ‘The Design Of A Computer, The Control Data 6600 by J.E. Thornton‘ (reproduced with permission see last page). All the diagrams I used in my talk are in this book.

Continue reading “History: Control Data Corporation 6600” →

Here is the inside of the first Things Network LoRa gateway in Cambridge, UK. The gateway serves the west of Cambridge (other Things gateways will following covering the centre of Cambridge).

I did not want to wait for the pre-built Things Gateway (and thought it would be more fun to build my own).  This Gateway is my home assembled Raspberry PI/IMST iC880a combination with the simple Tindle backplane.

Read on for more more details, full build instructions and more photo …

Continue reading “First ‘Things Network’ LoRa Gateway In Cambridge” →

I am one of the five people helping organise this free AI conference. See the CW web site here for more details.

The winter evenings are dark so as a diversion why not build my own complete end-to-end open source based 4G network. Real phones, custom SIM cards, eNB and a complete core EPC network. Here is my dining room table, and here is is what is what I did to make it work.

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Spent the weekend, appropriately, on a busman’s holiday looking at transportation data at the Urban Traffic Data Hackathon -Transport For London Dataset Meetup.

Here’s the presentation Mary-Ann & I produced on our recommendations for the underlying topological reference data model to link all of the TfL data together. Seemed generally well received.

Last month, I represented JDSU joining a vibrant public meeting of over 100 people to discuss the ‘Interoperability of Small Cells and the existing Cellular networks’ held at PwC offices in central London.

Continue reading “Interoperability of Small Cells and the Existing Cellular Networks – What’s the Hold-up?” →

Spoke at IET’s conferecne in London: Data Analytics 2014 – The Rising Role Of Big Data with the title Analysis of big data sourced from mobile phone networks. The video is at here 

Pleased to be supporting Cambridge Wireless Big Data Special Interest Group as SIG co-chair.

I was recently asked to present a commercial (not technical) introduction to Big Data to the last meeting of  The Centre for Business Innovation Limited (CfBI) headquartered in  Cambridge. Topics include some of the benefits, risk issues and sources of big data).

The presentation is now public in PDF as Big Data Commercial Introduction V1.5. Enjoy – contact me if you want more details.