(E) Finding a cure for blindness! Bionic eyes, to restore human vision for those suffering from partial or total blindness, have been experimenting over the last twenty years. But what […]
(E) NASA will have its worldwide space apps hackathon next weekend on April 22-24. The Silicon Valley location for the hackathon will be at SAP Success Factors, South San Francisco. […]
(T) Google has recently announced its new Cloud Machine Learning offering. Google Cloud Machine Learning leverages many Google products: TensorFlow, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Storage. The initial machine learning Python APIs […]
(T) Data has shape. Shape reveals a pattern. That pattern provides insights into the data. This is what and why Topology Data Analysis (TDA) does. TDA attempts to find the […]
(E) In my previous post, I talked about the many benefits of having a side project. Last month, I attended the musical play “Into the Woods” performed by high school […]
(E) Venture Capital investor and Blogger Fred Wilson posted a few days ago an interesting article on his blog about having a side project. Mr. Wilson mostly analyzed a side […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
(B) As it is the case every year, SXSW, while being a music, film, and entertainment event, is also showcasing technology and media start-ups in its start-up village. Techcrunch has […]
(T) At the same time that the RSA Security Conference is happening this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, everyone is talking and writing about the battle between […]
(E) Bill and Melinda Gates, in their 2016 annual letter are responding to some high school students questions: “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” While Melinda responded […]
(E) I have been attending many wonderful performances at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra but yesterday night was the first time, I witnessed a performer performing “an encore” under the […]
(T) Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer programmed with brute force analysis, defeated Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 over six games. IBM’s Watson won Jeopardy! in 2011. This week the […]
(T) I had the opportunity to go last October to the Data Science Camp 2015 of the San Francisco Bay ACM. The keynote of the conference was given by Joseph […]
(T) One of my favorite products from CES 2016 is probably Nixie: “the first wearable camera that can fly”. What’s an incredible innovative product! But there were a lot of […]
(B) The major U.S. stock market indexes closed out this week with losses of nearly 6% or more as concerns about China and a global economic slowdown is persisting. And […]
(T) Last week in Montreal, was the twenty-ninth annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). NIPS is probably one of the most well-attended machine learning and computational neuroscience conferences. […]
(E) The Roman Empire, the Mayas, the Easter Islanders were some of the most advanced civilizations from the past. All of them still surprise us by their accomplishments in politics, […]
(T) I attended last month the HTML 5 Autumn 2015 DevConf at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. There were many interesting talks and presentations, and it was a […]
(B) Part of the Stanford Ethics in Society Series Arrow Lectures, French economist Thomas Piketty did a talk on Friday at Stanford University about his 2013 book “Capital in the 21st Century”. The […]
(T) Finally, I was able to attend a talk from Stanford University Professor Nick Mckeown last month at the Silicon Valley SDN meet-up. Professor Mckeown, with Martin Casado (one of his Ph.D. students), and […]
(B) As I have been working on two machine learning projects for the last two years: one for an intelligent assistant application, and the other one for a predictive analytics […]
(E) Following is an offer that I received from Cameron Lindsay, the founder of Siliconvicts Clothing, if you need new cloth for your product team, your engineering team, your marketing […]
