Status-Q

[Original Link] I’m a bit late reporting this, but it’s worth mentioning anyway.

A couple of weeks ago a major new version of VNC was released. This is the first release of any sort for 18 months, the first major update for considerably longer, and it includes many new features and improvements.

Development at the AT&T Cambridge lab had all but ceased while we were working on the Broadband Phone, but when the lab closed in April several of my friends who were on the original VNC team left to set up RealVNC, and have been working hard on improvements since.

This will not, I predict, be the only phoenix to rise from the ashes…

[Original Link] A slightly bizarre article about the aftermath of the Cambridge Lab closure, by Ben Fountain. But it’s VNC, Ben, not VCN! It’s amazing how many variations there have been on this theme…

[Original Link] An article in the Guardian about some of the recent goings-on here in Cambridge.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been moving from the now-deceased AT&T Labs Cambridge into the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, a reversal of the move I made 6 years ago, though the Computer Lab is now in its shiny new building. Very strange going back – many familar faces in a completely unfamiliar environment.

It’s exciting, too, though. One of the aims of my new company, Ellipsian, is to be very closely tied to the University and to find new ways for University projects and expertise to influence the outside world. And vice versa. We’re already starting to see some interesting possibilities…