Making the PSN better
...the number of consumers on the network. We hope these changes, as well as many other, smaller changes we are making in how we deal with and think about our...
James A. Duncan
James Duncan is the Chief Technical Officer for PSN and a Senior Technical Advisor in the Government Digital Service, part of the Cabinet Office.
Public Services Network: a foundation for change
Since Andy Beale’s last post about management changes in the Public Services Network (PSN) team in July, we’ve been working hard to deliver the government’s high performance network.
This week in tech links: make-up from a 3D printer and a re-designed axe
...warning of the dangers of keeping our heads down, starting at the many screens in our lives. I tend to think we can have both a rich online life, and...
This week in tech links: Augmented Reality helmets and electricity-generating graphene
In the future, firefighters will use Augmented Reality to help them with their dangerous jobs. I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d probably walk around with one of these fancy hats before I walked around in Google glasses. Google …
Remediating legacy technology: a success story from the Department for Work & Pensions
The VME (Virtual Machine Environment) operating system was created by the company ICL in the 1970s. In many ways, it is a great story about British technology.
This week in tech links: slime mold, a 128 GB RAM module and a 30 second phone charger
...slime mold make a 128GB RAM module, like Korean firm SK Hynix has? The Facebook app on your iPhone is disturbingly efficient at draining your battery life. Fortunately there is...
This week in tech links: ink-saving typefaces, Cloudera and robotic kangaroos
This week we learned about a science fair project that identified millions in potential savings by simply switching fonts. Swapping from Times New Roman to Garamond would save the U.S. federal government $400 million in the cost of ink. Make …
This week in tech links: Google Glass, graphene and geneticat
...paying out $100 a pop to users who upgrade from Windows XP. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-offers-users-100-credit-new-pc-switch-xp/ Finally, watch this simulation of a cat - implemented with a genetic algorithm - learning to leap...