Programming for Low Power Usage

I just came across this very interesting session in the OSCON schedule, entitled Programming for Low Power Usage.

It’s great to see this kind of stuff bubbling up. With the focus on global warming, energy is seen as the next investment gold rush, but often, it’s the little things away from the main action that can have a huge impact. One of my all-time favorite environmental pieces was a 1975 article by Steve Baer called The Clothesline Paradox, which pointed out that when someone decides to hang their clothes on the line rather than put them in the dryer, it doesn’t get measured as a gain for solar energy vs. other sources. Similarly, conservation, and technology for conservation, often gets short shrift.

For our Energy Innovation Conference, we’re not just looking for the latest hot startups and speculative science. We’re also looking for those obvious but overlooked areas where computer scientists and hackers can bring fresh thinking to the energy problem.

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