I love visiting labs. When I was a kid, I was taken on a tour of IBM Labs Hursley and I think that was what got me into computers.  Later, when I was 11, I visited Prestel in London.

A few years ago, I wrote an article for CBI Business Voice about R&D labs and I visited MIT Media Lab, BT AdAstral, Microsoft Research Cambridge and others.  I really enjoyed that too (and incidentally, met someone from Microsoft who gave me my first corporate gig).  I also did articles for Director on Google and Ideo.

Just recently, I’ve been doing a lot of work for HP and I visited their labs in Bristol a couple of times and this month I was in Houston visiting their HQ there.  Cool!  I love my job!

Anyhow, here are some of the articles:

• Director - Mothers of Invention (Ideo) (PDF)
• Director - Google (PDF)
• Business Voice - R&D Labs (PDF)

Inside HP Labs

• Part 1 - Blue sky thinking
• Part 2 - Virtualisation is the future
• Part 3 - Utility computing
• Part 4 - Computers you can trust
• Part 5 - The Semantic Web

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