'New Technologies' in Madrid

[Norman Gray]

Greetings, all.

This is the final call for the 'new technologies' session at the Madrid Interop.

We currently have two talks offered at

    http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2014NewTechnologies

on the Oculus Rift, and on MariaDB (thanks, André and Kristin!).

We have space for more: I find it hard to believe that the massed geekery of the IVOA has no other technological kites to fly, or shiny toys to speculate wildly about.  If you have topics you'd like to hear about, let me know, and I can try to pick on someone to talk about them.

See you in Madrid,

Norman


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Following on from the successful 'new technologies' session in Heidelberg in 2013 <http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2013NewTech>, we're having another one in Madrid.

http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/InterOpMay2014NewTechnologies

This session will be about techniques or technologies which should be in the IVOA's future, or which may provide alternative solutions to IVOA problems, but which aren't yet at a standardisable stage.

This might include:

  * web developments (HTTP successors?, HTML5?, compiling to Javascript?)
  * language developments (languages for natural parallelism?  what's next after Python becomes unfashionable?)
  * database developments (nosql? biiiig data?  performance?)
  * UI developments (game controllers? hands-free controllers? graphics cards?)
  * ...anything else it would be fun to talk about

We can run this as a conventional session, with a sequence of timed talks, or if there's more interest we can run it as a sequence of lightning talks, or an unconference (I'm happy to take suggestions on format, too).

This session is on Wednesday, and therefore before the conference dinner; provocative proposals would suit very naturally!

Please send me:

 * Talk proposals, if you have a technology you want to talk about, or start a conversation about.

 * Talk requests, if there's a technology you think we should know more about.  If you can suggest whose arm I should twist to give the talk, all the better.

See you in Madrid!

Norman


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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK