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Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries) Interview -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2014 · Science & Technology

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From the 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City, the director of Babilim Light Industries discusses how the Internet of Things is broken, data as a local problem, the trend of embedded devices, and his obsession with Kickstarter.

About Alasdair Allan:
Alasdair Allan is a Scientist, Author, Hacker and Tinkerer, who recently has been trying to fix the Internet of Things.

He is the author of a number of books, and from time to time he also stands in front of cameras. You can often find him at conferences talking about interesting things, or deploying sensors to measure them. He recently rolled out a mesh network of five hundred sensors motes covering the entire of Moscone West during Google I/O. He’s still recovering.

He sporadically writes blog posts about things that interest him, or more frequently provides commentary in 140 characters or less. He is a contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and a contributor to the O’Reilly Radar.

A few years ago he caused a privacy scandal by uncovering that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a U.S. Senate hearing. Several years on, he still isn’t sure what to think about that.

Alasdair is a former academic. As part of his work he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of±what was at the time—the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma-ray burster at a redshift of 8.2.

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