Meeting Pepper – the Emotional Robot – at b8ta in Palo Alto
(T) I just received an e-mail that the b8ta store at 516 Bryant Street in Palo Alto will have for one week Pepper – the emotional robot from Aldebaran in […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
Quantum Encryption and Post-Quantum Cryptography
(T) Researchers have been working on quantum encryption for a long time. Quantum encryption is based on quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD algorithms can leverage well-defined quantum states (or photon […]
Russian Reflections
(E) The Fourteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically this year and explore, according to the festival […]
The Horrific, Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry
(E) I cannot agree more with Mr. Adam Gopnik from the New Yorker – there are many cases, where we can do much about the WHY but in all cases, […]
iOS and Android Security Models
(T) The architecture and implementation of iOS and Android are both similar when you compare feature-to-feature, and different when you compare implementation-to-implementation. Very basically, the iOS security model is based […]
Brexit and the Future of Europe
(B) Like many of us, I still do not understand the Brexit vote. Is it a distrust of the benefits of the global economic system? A return to nationalist movements […]
Today La Fete De La Musique in Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]
Machine Learning @ Pinterest
(T) I had the opportunity to listen last month Stanford University’s Professor Jure Leskovecdiscussing Machine Learning @ Pinterest. Professor Leskovec founded Kosei, a start-up that was acquired by Pinterest. He […]
From Mobile-First to AI-First?
(T) If you did not have the chance to attend Google IO this week at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, most of the videos of the talks are now […]
We Need an Energy Miracle
(E) I wrote a few weeks ago an article on Bill Gates encouraging the new generation of young kids to start researching new technologies which will help our world to […]
Data Engineering @ Facebook
(T) While in most start-ups, data analysis (analyzing the data), data science (designing the algorithms), and data engineering (developing the data infrastructure) are handled by the same person, at Facebook […]
Decoding the Signal between the Eye Retina and the Brain Neurons to Cure Blindness
(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 […]
NASA Space Apps Challenge
(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. […]
Google New Cloud Machine Learning Offering
(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 […]
The Shape of Data
(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 […]
Into the Woods
(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 […]
Having a Side Project
(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 […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2016
(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 […]
2016 SXSW Start-Up Village
(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 […]
Weakening Encryption
(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 […]
In Short We Need an Energy Miracle
(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 […]
Nielsen’s Violin Concerto Played by Nikolaj Znaider
(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 […]
Playing the Go Game with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
(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 […]
