MIT Tech Review reporting "teleportation" race to satellites - bit.ly/L2vq1Q - [Am failing to grok.] Congratulations! Thanks! to Dave Boggs, Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker on #Ethernet 's 39th birthday, today. Sneaky meterperson in Boston gave $25 ticket, vanished in less time than took to get 4 quarters parking change at Starbucks. Move to Texas. We added 30 years to life expectancy during 20th Century, but obesity now threatens to reduce it. Keeping kids from getting fat is key. Why are humans still allowed to drive trains unsupervised, when robots are so much better at paying attention and not colliding? Easy to find Robyn & me in panorama of Mike Hawley's EG Conference, but Marvin Minsky, Dava Newman, Amory Lovins ... bit.ly/JsnZTK Easy to find Robyn and me in this amazing panorama of Mike Hawley's EG Conference, but find Dava Newman, Marvin Minsky, Amory Lovins... Hard to see how this is not a major miscalculation: Obama says Bain is what this campaign is about - bit.ly/JLtSLA - [Hurray!] it's a bad headline. Bain is not what he says the campaign is about, if you listen to the nearly 5 minute clip. Yes, Obama is an inept community-organizing socialist, opposed not just to Romney, Bain, PE, but to all of free enterprise. Out! hopefully there will be some positive campaigning from both sides instead of tit-for-tat attack ads. Sure, just as long as Obama and a bunch of other Democrats get resoundingly defeated in the end. we are both dreamers, although your dream is more likely than mine. Austin supreme networker Carol Thompson in Texas CEO Magazine on Passion - Do You Feel The Heat? - bit.ly/KNWG1n Ember CEO: Silicon Labs acquisition for $72M+ is right thing for Ember - bit.ly/Jxdsjs - [Not into regional economic development.] As far as metaphors go, I prefer "sunrises" to "sunsets." How 'bout you? Yes, and I prefer "post partum" over "post mortem." Ethernet was invented at Xerox Parc on May 22, 1973, which means tomorrow is the 39th birthday of #Ethernet - bit.ly/JiHa0R Edward Lazear: Three Views of the Fiscal Cliff - on.wsj.com/KTjoYE - [Cut taxes, spending, debt!] Good coverage of Boston-based Ember's acquisition for $72M+ by Austin-based Silicon Labs - bit.ly/Kekn53 - [Thanks, Katie.] When I want to fix a problem, the first thing I do is ______. When I want to fix a problem, the first thing I do is listen. Congratulations! to CEO Bob LeFort & Ember teams in South Boston and Cambridge (UK) entering next phase, with Silicon Labs in Austin. Boston-based Ember leads IEEE-802.15.4-based ZigBee embedded wireless networking: chips stacks tools. Joining with Silicon Labs in Austin. Ember (ember.com) founded 2001 by Rob Poor & Andy Wheeler from Michael Hawley's MIT lab. Polaris & I (Chair) founding investors. Ember acquired by Silicon Laboratories - on.mktw.net/Jrlvop - Ember: MIT-spun, Polaris-backed, Boston-based leader in ZigBee networking. Family post-graduation swim across Walden Pond in Concord on a gorgeous Spring day in Massachusetts. Julia training to swim Alcatraz. if you see Henry David T. in cabin, tell him GMW says hello! Daughter Julia, who works at FB, was raving about Sidecar today. Contrast GMW and SC? Son Max wins magna cum laude in physical geography from Boston University, where Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is our commencement speaker. wow, congratulations to him (and you)! Obama now spreading his bad=socialist ideas in Europe, pouring gas on their fire, more anti-austerity tax and spend - yhoo.it/KOy0II Other way around. Europeans rejecting years of "austerity" that have not made things better for anyone not at the top. You've spent too much time in Rhode Island. Years of European austerity? Ha ha ha ha... Tax and spend ain't austerity. Polaris-backed Infinite Power Solutions smashed record with 75K full fast recharges - bit.ly/MvmpjA - See Sensors Expo in June. Gotta see MAGNIFYING THE UNIVERSE, via Astrotech CEO Tom Pickens: bit.ly/Kkk5I2 Austin jobless rate drops to 5.5 percent - bit.ly/K0uWbz - [Companies moving here should bring people, who will love it.] My weight: 235.2 lb. 56.6 lb to go. Need to reverse trend, get BMI under obese, catch @LarsPerk. withings.com Packing for Boston to attend son Max's graduation from BU - Hurray! - then on to basecamp in Maine for the Summer. Where in Maine will you be? Ahoy! Among the islands of Penobscot Bay and downeast. Wow. I remember doing interview w/ you at CFP1996 w/ Max coloring alongside. "He has to download," you said. Max has indeed downloaded. He's even uploading now, and beginning to form complete thoughts. Physical geography. Excited for @elonmusk and @SpaceX today! Whatever happens, its PROGRESS. Trying is much better than talking. #DragonLaunch @elonmusk @SpaceX Just urged all of yesterday's 1,061 UTAustin engineering grads to join Planetary Resources. Asteroids! After commencement address at Cockrell School of Engineering - bit.ly/KmIdHL - congratulated, shook hands with all ~1,061 grads. Hate to think how much more it'll cost to put some characters into this world... New teaser vid from 38 Studios: bit.ly/M2q85q Teaser later text @UTAustin engineering commencement - Grand Challenges - bit.ly/r7BZEX - Scaring hell out of them with asteroids. Regalia, no funny hat, heading UTAustin basketball arena to deliver engineering commencement address to ~1,061 grads & families. Hook 'em! Thanks... you know the feeling... To put it another way: Virtually every single investor who bought Facebook shares today has already lost money.$FB Didn't lose money if you bought at $38 and sold at $42, or weren't many of those? Seems to be overwhelming evidence on Twitter that Mark Zuckerberg was not born in Kenya, or something like that. RT: @PolarisVC: PVP's Momenta No. 1 on Globe’s Top 100: b.globe.com/JA0lEx Congrats R. Sasisekharan, G. Venkataraman, B. Langer, C. Wheeler, & A. Crane. Kauffman Foundation: Small businesses rate Idaho & Texas friendliest, California and New York least - bit.ly/JCeBwp RT: @supermechanical: We respect the Law! MT @BobMetcalfe Am thrilled that Supermechanical is moving to Austin. We do hardware here, not just websites (;->). Momenta Pharmaceuticals: Massachusetts success story - #1 on Globe 100 - b.globe.com/JPXnbm - [Polaris (and I) were founding investors.] Massachusetts unemployment falls to 6.3%. Sure, that's worth a tweet. Yes, because all your new university graduates are heading to Austin to get exciting high-tech jobs. Look out, world! Here comes the UTAustin Class of 2012, ~8,000 graduates including ~700 engineers - bit.ly/KvN3bf RT: @WSJ: Video: Vint Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, says "I don't think we've created a monster." on.wsj.com/KhZqlB Not enough "rich" people for Maryland Dems: $1B more spending, higher taxes on incomes not >$250K but now >$100K - bit.ly/J0iC89 University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is #1 cancer hospital among 50 ranked and 900 listed by U.S. News - bit.ly/JLBObQ My engineering commencement talks will feature the National Academy of Engineering's 14 Grand Challenges - I'll comment, add one or two. Am sneaking in as emcee of the Austin Technology Council second annual CEO Summit tomorrow - bit.ly/JITd5V UTAustin energy gurus to meet this evening with Sharon Burke, DOD Operational Energy, and Richard Kidd, Army Energy and Sustainability. UAW opposes Obama's budget, but they are not alone in the Democrat-controlled US Senate (99-0) - bit.ly/JhksHJ Bummed to learn that MIT sensor spin-out Supermechanical is moving to Austin. (But @BobMetcalfe will be thrilled.) bo.st/y6mJov Am thrilled that Supermechanical, an MIT spin-out, is moving to Austin. We do hardware here, not just websites (;->). Go to commencements, Grasshopper, because: You get what you celebrate. Ethernet invented 1973, called Xerox Wire 1976-79. Here's 1976 spec, thanks to Magnus Nystedt of pingdom.com: bit.ly/K97EOq Battery Ventures joins Austin Ventures in $3.3M A round for Austin social startup Mass Relevance - TechCrunch tcrn.ch/Jjtzkt Meanwhile, back home in Austin, events are ramping up toward Saturday's UTAustin Commencement 2012 extravaganza - bit.ly/Kxmr8A With uncommon promotional flair, MIT has spotlight already up on our new President, electrical engineer Rafael Reif - bit.ly/KOPmEK= MIT's newly-elected President just thanked outgoing President Susan Hockfield and is getting a standing ovation, in my case over the phone. Longhorn Startup: GoingMyWay ride-sharing website receives $343,000 - Austin Business Journal bit.ly/KZxhkx Prediction: The next really big things, after iPhones and iPads, will be iGlasses. Question is: Killer app? @goingmywayllc Army LCL Joseph Kopser & GoingMyWay raised round also without 1SemesterStartup. Be all y'all can be, indeed. Closing UTAustin ECE dinner with commentary on NAE's 14 Grand Challenges + disrupting education, mining asteroids. Also Monty Hall Paradox. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in India shouts out to UTAustin IC2 Global Commercialization Group - bit.ly/L3YDp8 - Hook 'em! Facebook to IPO using Legalzoom forms? Polaris-backed Legalzoom files for IPO - reut.rs/MhpXG1 - [CA-based, growing in Austin, TX] Met grade deadline for 2nd semester of UTAustin's 1SemesterStartup - 10 Longhorn Startups, 34 students, 8 for ECE capstone project credit. Tuesday starts 0700 board meeting of Polaris-backed Ember (ZigBee), ends closing UTAustin Electrical&Computer Engineering senior dinner. Not enough Obama sent home. Congress needs cleaning out too. Generic Congressional Ballot: GOP 45%, Dems 38% - tinyurl.com/l4cdqt Austin as up and coming automotive technology cluster - bit.ly/JOEOpp Obama could easily have loaned even more of our money to Solyndra, but instead he vampired it and lost 1,000 jobs - fxn.ws/JYeBSX Perhaps Obama's media lapdogs have not noticed how popular vampires are these days - The Washington Post wapo.st/KGMCJk To innovate you must sometimes be uncollegial and make enemies. The status quo prefers you not rock the boat. And it's likely you're wrong. Grading UTAustin 1SemesterStartup. Recall Bs I gave in 70s to Stanford EE+CS students who later rubbed my nose in their booming startups. Broken tweet. Former Obama aide called Obama attack ad on Romney unfair... November elections not about gay marriage or polygamy but whether to keep growing burgeoning governments or shrink them to grow economies. Rogue Trail 10K today 02:38, not once losing contact with Earth. Winner 00:43. Wife Robyn 30K! 04:11. Am entered 25K in Maine 5/27. What should I tell graduating engineers in my upcoming commencement addresses? tell them to get industry certifications to enhance their degrees. The learning fun never stops! Yes, thanks, never let the learning stop. The future is a world of information and innovation and as such, you as engineers are the ones that will shape it. Mitt has 4+ grandmas RT @BobMetcalfe: Following evolution on same-sex marriage, perhaps Obama should try evolving toward polygamous marriage OK, smartass, how many grandma's did Obama have in Kenya? Romney clear about marriage being 1 man + 1 woman. Following evolution on same-sex marriage, perhaps Obama should try evolving toward polygamous marriage - Romney hung up on 1 man + 1 woman. Funny...I've heard Romney's grand-dad had no such hangups... Romney clear marriage between 1 man and 1 woman, whatever his grand-dad thought. OK, what about Obama's Kenyan dad+grandad, Ben? Rode a speedy boat the length of Lake Austin and back, dam to dam. It's an amazing city within a city. These people know how to live. 1973 PhD on wall says Applied Math, but studied theory, OSes, networking of computers, so been saying Computer Science. Confirmation gotcha? With all due respect, again, you are entitled to your own opinion, not to your own facts. Especially not you. Which facts are you referring to this time? Tonight in Austin, Sheryl Crow at the Paramount Theater Anniversary Celebration. Yes, Austin, Live Music Capital of the World. Just voted to re-elect Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell - Vietnam vet, former Delta pilot, grad of UTAustin Cockrell School of Engineering. Off to Senior Activity Center to vote in today's Austin Municipal Election. It's important to vote every year, but especially this year. Boston for son Max's BU graduation 5/20, then Summer in Maine. Camping for-sale Beacon townhouse in your photo of Charles. I am hard at work trying to help market your townhouse... :) After Summer, please, thanks. My weight: 236.8 lb. 58.2 lb to go. Need to reverse trend, get BMI under obese, catch @LarsPerk. withings.com great formula to follow: daily calories = (ideal weight)(9+ weekly workout hr) OK, 180 X (9 + 7) = 2,880. Visited Joshua Baer at Capital Factory atop Austin's Omni, grading for 1SemesterStartup. He is giddy with good news for Austin startups... Disgraced Clinton called Obama amateur, urged Hillary to run - nyp.st/M3GY6u - [Upgrade Biden, who makes Palin look like Thatcher?] Ruth Christine Myhre Metcalfe is in Heaven with my Father, and I miss her. If you still have your Mother, cherish her, especially Sunday. Thanks. We lost her a couple of years ago, but I still miss her, especially when reminded by Mother's Day. Be still my heart: Romney 50 Obama 43 in Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - bit.ly/83HrI3 UTAustin Women's Tennis wins Big 12, seeded 11th in NCAA tournament today at UT - bit.ly/KQdZy7 - Hook 'em Horns! Story with insights on exactly how biased media do time and shape the "news" to influence outcomes of elections - bit.ly/JiTNXL As undergrad debts mount, universities face accelerating Internet disruption, so UTAustin proposes higher tuition, but Regents just say no. International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011 - UTexas 3rd university, behind UCalifornia and MIT - bit.ly/JfgM6f Polaris-backed Infinite Power Solutions demos record-setting 75K! recharges of solid-state Li-ion micro batteries - bit.ly/KR3olP San Francisco on Townsend at 3rd about to meet with ... Q. Then, heading home Austin tonight for UT office hours tomorrow. Life is good. Too many of us still drop school, supersize, smoke, drive drunk, hate work, do cocaine, shed kids, believe TV, join mobs, vote Democrat. @BobMetcalfe If you're still in town tomorrow night, we'd love to have you come to dinner at Twilio HQ. Thanks, but going back home Austin this afternoon. Maybe next time? Went to Exploratorium dinner to catch a glimpse of Gordon Moore, who also has a law. Sat with Craig & Barbara Barrett, also Intel royalty. Daughter Julia & I at 35th Exploratorium awards dinner in San Francisco. In 1995 they gave me award for Public Understanding of Science. |
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