Dream Designer

Hello World!

The first thing in learning a new programming language is to print on screen the phrase "Hello World". So when start blogging it is wise to post these words first.

When I first decided to express my views to internet community, I registered a domain name. After a year of parked page that advertises Go Daddy (and paying $8.95/year them for running their advertisement!), I figured out that there is a much better way of expressing yourself; Blogging!

After a short (really short, in just fifteen minutes) search in Google, I found and decided on Blogger. And another fifteen minutes to set up my blog. All is ready! Now comes the real part, writing the first post.

I think I should explain why I am blogging first. Well everbody's doing it, why not me! Besides, the reason I write is infact to have a feed back on my views and ideas. Ideas are tested best by publishing them. Without a counter opinion you may not know the real value and meaning of your ideas. Any person should put his/her ideas into the review of others. Ideas in isolation may appear perfect to the owner, which in fact may not be that perfect.

Posting a brief description about what I will write on here may help potential viewers. I would like to share my views and ideas (and get feed back) on mainly three topics;

First pervasive computing is an area I strongly believe and support. Both in USA and in Europe this area is being widely explored and many research efforts are conducted to make this dream a reality both from hardware and software perspectives.

Secondly, closely related to pervasive computing (or ambient intelligence in European terminology) artificial intelligence, and artificial life issues. The research on AI and ALife is worth following since significant technologies are emerging that may affect our every day lives.

Another topic of interest is on virtual 3D worlds. With now popular samples like Second Life and There.com, public interest will grow significantly. I see a significant relation between a-life and virtual worlds, since AI technologies will facilitate accelerating building virtual reality worlds or alternate reality simulations. Research and development work will soon produce "Metaverses" for us to play, socialize and do business.

All of these topics have one thing common so we may think about a fourth area which will be covered one way or another along with other subjects; innovation and research. I will mainly be dealing with innovation process and technology management. Regarding innovation I like to cover local (from Turkey) news, as well. So Turkish local research resources will be exposed to interested parties all over the world.

In order to achieve my goal of sharing views and gathering comments from a broader community, I should do blogging in a disciplined manner. Although I have other responsibilities preventing me from frequent blogging, I should, on average, post weekly or twice a month at least.

So that's all today, from a newcomer of blog sphere.

As I said, Hello World!

05 November, 2006, Istanbul

posted by Kaan Bingol @ 4:27 PM