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Bill manages the Intel Software Network team. He enjoys working with remarkable people and technology. He joined Intel in 1997 after years of working on computer systems in airplanes. Bill spents his free time reading, taking pictures, dabbling in music, and exploring technology. |
Vacation, Friendfeed, and New Bloggers
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on July 1, 2008 at 9:47 am
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Last week I took some vacation and headed down to Southern California. While I was relaxing, I found myself thinking about a few work issues. Namely, the importance of margin (slack, downtime, etc.). During my vacation, I spent the days reading, sleeping, and enjoying the company of family and friends. This break from my daily [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Social Media & Virtual Worlds
How do you like our new look?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on April 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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Did you notice that the ISN site has a new look? We just launched the update which moves our navigation up to a simple header at the top of each page. We've also made the header and navigation consistent across the blogs, content, forums, etc. For those of you still wondering what I'm talking [...]
Category: Customer Support, Gaming, Graphics, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Open Source, University Curriculum, Virtualization, What If Software
Customer Survey Feedback
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on February 8, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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If you haven't noticed, there is a survey that pops up every now and then when you're on the Intel site. This survey is one of the ways that we get feedback from you about how we're doing. One of the key questions asked in the survey is about content you were unable to find [...]
Category: Graphics, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore
Call for Papers
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on January 22, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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One of the big focus areas for the Intel Software Network in 2008 will be user generated content. We know you have knowledge and expertise that your peers would benefit from. So in addition to having Intel experts share their expertise about Threading, Manageability, Virtualization, Developing for mobile platforms, and Graphics, we'd like to invite [...]
Category: Gaming, Graphics, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Virtualization
Wifi, Wimax, and DVB-H on a single chip
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on December 14, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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As I was sitting here listening to The Calling and working on a powerpoint slide, an email came in my inbox that made me sit up and take a look. Jason Zhu sent me this article from mobilemag.com. Imagine Wifi, Wimax, and DVB-H on a single chip! Sounds like it's here, at [...]
Category: Mobility
Cool Software Uncut
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on October 16, 2007 at 9:56 pm
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This video is a Q&A session with the folks behind the Cool Software site. Josh Bancroft interviews Steve Asbornsen and Dave McKinney and talks about the events leading up to the coolsw launch, the internal version, and some of the other questions readers have been asking.
Category: Cool Software, Intel® Software Network 2.0
Do you have Cool Software?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on October 9, 2007 at 9:52 am
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We recently launched a new site on the Intel Software Network. We call it CoolSW, for Cool Software. Q. What is Cool Software? A. An online community of people passionate about software. Members post information about an interesting new software company and the community votes on whether they think a software company is, well, "cool." The [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Are you going to the Web 2.0 Summit?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on October 4, 2007 at 11:14 am
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I'm heading out to the Web 2.0 Summit on the 16th. This is the place where all of the people building the next generation of web applications get together and talk about what they're doing. Last year I brought back a bunch of ideas that we've applied here to the Intel Software Network site. I'm looking forward to [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Viva Mexico!
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on September 24, 2007 at 10:09 am
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I was in Mexico recently for the launch of the Intel® Software Partner Program in the region. While I was there I had an opportunity to visit a few local universities. I knew it was going to be a fun day when my colleagues from Oregon all got on the plane and went home. My [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Multicore, University Curriculum
Are you ready for SSE4?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on August 30, 2007 at 2:09 pm
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I noticed this article today. Is the world ready for SSE5? Then I started to wonder if the world was ready for SSE4? As Penryn gets closer, so does the opportunity for developers to use SSE4 instructions in their apps. If you aren't thinking about SSE4 yet, we have plenty of resources to help you [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Software Engineering
Big Company Community Building: Lessons from Inside
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on August 30, 2007 at 8:15 am
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As you may know, the ISN team has been building online communities here for a while now. We've learned a ton and run into many roadblocks and gotchas. At the end of the day, I find the direct conversations with our customers fascinating and rewarding. That's what it's all about. I've proposed a talk at SXSW [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
The Facebook Generation
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on August 15, 2007 at 8:51 am
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I had an interesting meeting the other day. An intern set up a meeting with me to talk about this site. He wanted to understand the benefits we were offering to developers. As we started talking about the site, he asked me about some of the social networking capabilities of our site. "Can I set [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility
Come work for the Intel Software Network
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on July 25, 2007 at 9:40 pm
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We're hiring. Actually, we're looking for a developer to join our team. We're a small, fast-paced team that does a lot of cool development. We develop everything that goes on the ISN site. We are an agile team with lots of flexibility and lots of work to get done. Intel is a great company to work for. Besides all of [...]
Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Open Source, Software Engineering, University Curriculum
A Day Off... for the whole team
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on July 12, 2007 at 9:38 pm
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Yesterday the entire ISN team took the day off. There were no meetings, no phone calls, no emails. We took the day off to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year. This was a rare treat and a very insightful experience. We started the day with a small celebration. There were a couple of speeches about [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
HP's Multicore Optimization Program
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on June 28, 2007 at 11:16 am
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HP is jumping into the Multicore game with their Multicore Optimization Program. Given chip maker's shift to Multicore processors, this should be helpful for deveopers. Does anyone know more about this program? I'd like to connect with HP on how we could work together on helping deveopers with threading and parallelism.
Category: Multicore
Teaching Developers to Thread
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on June 27, 2007 at 3:07 pm
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I noticed that Tim O'Reilly referenced a conversation earlier this month on the "Multi-Core Crisis". One of the points made by Andrew Donoho is that we're going to need some more training and innovation to get around the limitations of todays code. You may have seen the press release yesterday - "Intel Introduces Worldwide Software Training [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Multicore, Software Engineering, University Curriculum
10 to 1
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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My last job was managing a large development team. We had people in India, California, and Oregon. We worked on a dozen apps and had a nice budget. When I took this job, my boss told me I'd have a development team about a tenth the size of my former team. The entire ISN team is [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Making it Easy to Share
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 9:58 pm
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Part 4 (of 5) in our strategy is to make it easy to share. Sounds simple enough, right? When we started this last May, we had no blogs, on wiki, and an industrial strength content system that was anything but speedy. Our developers programmed everything in .Net. We took a big leap of faith and decided [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source
Creating Online Communities
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 14, 2007 at 9:46 pm
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If you recall the strategy discussion that I started last week, you also probably know that I didn't finish it. Friday was a vacation day (I was up at the Sequim Irrigation Festival), so no blog. The third part of our strategy is "Creating participatory communities around Intel platforms". The most basic way to look at [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Letting Go is Hard to Do
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 9, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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If you're like me, you may have difficulty letting go. Let's face it, we all like it when we get our way. The trouble being a controlling egomaniac is that you don't make a lot of friends. People like to be part of a conversation. They like to have their ideas heard, share their thoughts, [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Finding passion
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 8, 2007 at 9:35 am
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Love me, hate me, just don't forget about me. I've heard people say that passion is that strong feeling associated with either love or hate. It's great when someone loves your products. Having someone hate your product isn't bad either. It means they care. The worst place to be is when people don't care. Your [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Getting Ready for JavaOne
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on May 7, 2007 at 2:04 pm
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As you probably know, our focus on ISN these past several months has been on threading, mobility, and manageability. We've spent a lot of time talking about these topics. With JavaOne just around the corner ,we started looking at what we had around Java. Turns out there was a lot of information throughout the site just [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source
I want a Quad Core Chopper
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on April 5, 2007 at 9:00 am
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Like a lot of people, I like looking at a nice motorcycle. Everytime I see an ultra cool bike, I imagine myself riding down the highway in my leather jacket, boots, and sunglasses. Then I get pulled back to reality. A friend of mine once gave me a ride on the back of his bike. [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Multicore
Do Four out of Five Dentists Surveyed Recommend Parallel Programming?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on March 30, 2007 at 1:08 pm
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No, but three leading technology companies are doing so. According to theserverside.net, Bill Gates recently told Microsoft MVPs "Because the ability to take multiple processors and use them in parallel has been a programming challenge going back many, many decades, so now it's important that we actually solve that problem, and make it possible for developers of all [...]
Category: Multicore
5 Things I learned at the Evans Data Conference
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on March 27, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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Earlier this month, I attended the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference. As conferences go, it was quite small but very informative. Here are five things I learned from the event. IBM is the new leader of the pack when it comes to developer communities. I listened to sessions by Kathy Mandelstein and Rawn Shah. Both are [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Note from boss to employees
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on March 5, 2007 at 11:22 pm
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All of us sometimes wonder what our boss is thinking. We see her make what looks like a crazy decision or task assignment. Having been a developer and worked with developers for many years, I know many of you share the same belief. How did this person get to be my boss? Now, as a boss [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Tom Bradicich has started blogging
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on February 23, 2007 at 9:40 pm
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Since I noticed that Tom Bradicich has started a blog, I thought I'd welcome him to the blogosphere. You can read all about him on his blog. He's an interesting guy because of the work he's done on PCs and servers throughout the years. If you're every wondering about the smart people behind that hardware [...]
Category: Manageability, Mobility, Multicore
Question for you - why do you use ISN?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on February 22, 2007 at 11:42 pm
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I was talking with a friend of mine today. She asked me why people use this site. She was genuinely curious. We ask ourselves that question, of course. We consult market research data about what software developers look for in developer sites. We benchmark other prominent developer sites (MSDN, Oracle, IBM, Sun and others). We [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Open Source
Loveocracy... now that's a word
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on February 20, 2007 at 9:02 pm
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One of my favorite blogs to read is Kathy Sierra's Creating Passionate Users. The reason I read her blog is that she reminds me of what my primary focus needs to be - YOU! She's a master at describing how to create passion in your customers. She recently had an article about Loveocracy - The [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Masters of Technology
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on February 8, 2007 at 9:35 am
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If you're like me, you love technology. I've been enamored with gadgets, circuits, code, and new technology since I was little. One of my first projects as a kid was helping my dad wire wrap an 8k memory add on for a Timex Sinclair ZX80. The thrill of seeing my computer come alive with 8k [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
What's the difference between a blog and a forum?
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on January 26, 2007 at 12:48 am
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I was recently asked what was the difference between and online forum and a blog. At first I thought it was obvious. I quickly realized that it isn't. In fact, the difference can depend on what site you are on. My first step was to look for a definition online. Wikipedia describes a forum as [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Introducing a new look for our blogs
By Bill Pearson (Intel) (32 posts) on January 17, 2007 at 6:10 am
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Hi, I'm Bill Pearson and I manage the Intel Software Network team. In case you haven't noticed, we've been changing a lot of things around here. Mid last year, my boss gave me a new job -- managing this website and team. It came with a charter to move the site in a new direction. The [...]