Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:01 PM PDT

At the recent Cloud Gaming USA conference in San Francisco I gave a technical talk that covered three challenges – and therefore opportunities for research – with the current state of cloud gaming. The main topics were:

The games today offered by cloud gaming vendors are just the same as their PC or console versions. However: A powerful cloud could do much more! Three examples (ray tracing, voxel rendering and photo-realistic rendering) are given on what cool improvements could emerge.
Latency is a big topic. However the first thought of just focusing on the internet latency is wrong. There are many other sources of latency in the chain which are discussed in detail and suggestions on how to fix those are given.
Sufficient bandwidth is at least as important. The upcoming boost in screen resolutions could soon be the biggest challenge for cloud gaming.

The slides of the talk can be downloaded (7 MB)

Also a dry run of the talk is available for streaming:

What are your thoughts on cloud gaming today? How do you think this topic will develop over the next five years?

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Community lessons from architecture and urban planning

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Dave Neary manages open source standards at Red Hat, so he thinks a lot about what makes open source communities work and what makes them unique.

First, everything we are doing in open source is not brand new. People have gone before us; we should take notice of the lessons they learned and learn them ourselves. Then, two books, one about architecture and the other city planning, highlight key guidelines for design and process.

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Upcoming global discussion on open government, big data, and innovation

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT

The Gigabit City Summit is set to host a diverse, dynamic range of speakers on the topics of open government, big data, and innovation on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am CDT.