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The Smart Utility

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The Smart Utility

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"Like most exurb data-commuters, Pollack rented the standard optical links: Bell, Boeing, Nippon Electric. Those, together with the local West Coast data companies, gave him more than enough paths to proceed with little chance of detection to any acceptable processor on Earth. In minutes, he had traced through three changes of carrier and found a place to do his intermediate computing. The comsats rented processor time almost as cheaply as ground stations, and an automatic payment transaction (through several dummy accounts set up over the last several years) gave him sole control of a large data space within milliseconds of his request. The whole process was almost at a subconscious level --- the proper functioning of numerous routines he and others had devised over the last four years." [True Names]

Imagine plugging your toaster into a wall socket and instead of pulling electricity from your local power company, you were presented with an opportunity to browse the latest prices worldwide and choose the cheapest with the least latency. Obviously given the physical limitations such an opportunity with electricity is not possible; however, there is a new utility that has the potential to not only offer such intelligent use but will grow to become what we consider the essence of intelligence itself: Computation.

Where electricity and information are the feedstock, computation is the new Smart Utility and will grow to out pace all other utilities before it in terms of adoption and importance.

In this talk attendees will be introduced to utility computing (a.k.a Cloud Computing), its current uses and future implications as well as how to connect and utilize the grids available today.

"If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry." [John McCarthy, MIT Centennial in 1961]

Gabriel Kent is a technologist with an inborn technolust and loves making music. He has worked in a variety of tech. related fields (intelligent media presentation, systems automation, consumer electronics, video games, internet marketing, MPEG-4 systems to name a few) for companies such as Intel, Panasonic, AOL (TimeWarner), Macrovision and Warner Brothers (to name a few more ;). He recently gave a talk on the importance of Open Source Education (titled "World Education or Bust") @ Forum 2007 in Monterrey, Mexico. Gabriel currently works for an internet marketing firm he co-founded in 2004 and is pushing to help form the first Media Lab @ ITESM.

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Gabriel would like to dedicate this talk to his friend Vladimir Miloushev; a true visionary of utility computing and founder of 3Tera. ~Rest in Peace Vlad~

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