Archive for July 1st, 2010

The Next 10 – 2010

Author: Alberta Venture
Crowds, crowds and internet everywhere by Duncan Kinney | Illustrations by Rodrigo López Orozco Cloud Computing | kloud kom•pyoot•ing | noun You can put the umbrella away for now, because those strange looking clouds forming overhead aren’t full of rain or snow, but instead a new information technology paradigm. Cloud computing, the loose term applied to any IT [...]
by Caitlin Crawshaw / Illustration by Sonia Roy Sidebar: Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before This past April, thousands of Star Trek fans flocked to the small Alberta town of Vulcan to meet 79-year-old Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock in the short-lived but highly influential television series. The town, which shares the name of [...]
Renowned Chicago architect Sara Beardsley of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture was a speaker at the Reimagine Series this spring in both Edmonton and Calgary. She spoke to Alberta Venture about redefining our urban landscapes. by Colleen Biondi Photograph by Bluefish CRITICAL EYE: Architect Sara Beardsley says there is plenty of opportunity for Alberta’s big-city buildings to [...]