The Innovation Sandbox
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last year, the winner was RedOwl […]
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Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2015
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2015 Demo Day but for the first time, the event was over two days. […]
From Black Holes to Superconductors – Part 2
(E) This is the second lecture from Professor Sean Hartnoll from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, that attempts to articulate some of the properties of Black Holes in order to better understand […]
2015 SXSW Accelerator Finalists
(B) This year, I did not notice a big crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. SXSW is mostly about music, film, and entertainment. But with the evolution of computing […]
Young and Experienced Performers
(E) Qu’il fait bon de vivre à San Francisco si vous aimez l’art! How nice is it to live in San Francisco if you love art! In less than three months, violinist […]
From Black Holes to Superconductors – Part 1
(E) I attended a lecture from Professor Sean Hartnoll from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, which has many well-known physicists such as Professor Leonard Sussking for his research in String Theory and Professor Andrei Linde for […]
Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning
(T) The DeepMind Technologies team in London has just published a paper in Nature: “human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”. The Deep Neural Network called Deep Q-Network (DQN) combines a Reinforcement Learning algorithm with Experience Replay […]
The Internet Economy
(B) I had a chance to read some of the research of the 2014 Economy Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole about the innovation and the adoption of new technologies. Probably his most […]
The World’s First Solar-Powered Family Car
(T) TechCrunch had its 8th Annual Crunchies Award at the San Francisco Symphony’s Davies Hall this week. You can read everything that happened at the event on the TechCrunch’s site. I […]
Changing the World after 50!
(E) The New Yorker has an excellent article “The Pursuit of Beauty” and a fun video to watch this week about the life of Yitang Zhang, from the University of New […]
The Impact of the Facebook News Feed on Your Life
(T) Social networks like computer networks can be considered in a simplified way as having both a connection and application layers. The connection layer in a computer network aims to […]
Quantum Biology
(T) Over the holidays, I discovered the book from Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology”. Doctor Al-Khalili is a pioneer […]
Authentic and Wise Advises to a Junior Programmer
(T) As I am doing a fair amount of programming in Python, I am always discovering new resources from the “extensive” Python community. I found that video from a talk […]
Software Defined Internet Exchange (SDX)
(T) I attended on Thursday a talk from Professor Nick Feamster from Georgia Tech at Stanford University to enable inter-domain routing for Software Defined Networks (SDN) at Internet Exchange Points […]
Mining of Massive Datasets
(T) I was delighted to take Mining of Massive Datasets MOOC on Coursera this quarter from Professor Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman from Stanford University. The course goes […]
Another Military-Grade Malware – Not a Good Thing!
(T) Both Symantec and Kaspersky have disclosed their findings of Regin – the latest discovered military-grade surveillance malware. Symantec has published a good white paper about the capabilities and the […]
Let’s not Kill Software Defined Networks with Standards but Let it Grow with Open Source Software
(T) I was interested to receive this month IEEE Computer Magazine “special edition” about Software Defined Networks (SDN). Unfortunately, the Magazine focused on describing the present efforts to standardize the […]
Understanding the Ebola Virus
(E) Excellent article from Ars Technica for: “Understanding the Ebola virus”. As the title mentioned it: “The virus itself is really nothing special – until it gets inside a human”. […]
Why Don’t We Stop Greenhouse Emissions Today?
(E) The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has just released today its latest Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report. Please read the press release, the report and watch the press conference: Press […]
Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for K-Means Clustering
(T) Niels Bohr believed “that anyone who thinks they can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy doesn’t understand it” while Albert Einstein couldn’t accept quantum mechanics because as he said, “I […]
Transforming the Customer Experience
(B) Most of the early waves of new technology have been adopted and developed by businesses. Since 2000, early adoption of new technologies has shifted from businesses to consumers. Enterprises […]
Using Robots to Help Medical Staffs Against Ebola
(E) The White House is now considering robots for winning the fight against the Ebola virus: Intouch health’s remote presence robot, Xenex’s germ-zapping robot, and humanoid robots. A series of brainstorming meetings […]
