Along with Anil Madhavapeddy at the University of Cambridge I've been thinking about how to apply reconfigurable computing technology (for example FPGAs ) in data-centres and in cloud computing systems. Reconfigurable computing for some time now has had...

Soon there will be so much information about our lives entered into social network systems to allow us to perform calculations with this historical data to compute "what-if" scenarios i.e. compute a parallel life we could have had if we had made some...