Regulating Markets – When and How To Do It?
(E) When I go to Europe, I can obverse how too much market regulations sometimes do not stimulate higher standards of living. But when I am in the US, I […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
A Wearable that You Must Wear
(E) There are a lot of ideas of wearables. But the fundamental question is: Will you wear them? Will they be practical? Will they be fashionable? The Skully AR-1 is definitely one […]
This Week-End: Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 4,386 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]
Superconducting Quantum Circuits
(T) Professor Martinis from UCSB and his team of students have made recently a significant contribution to the field of quantum computing. Their contribution has been so significant that Google proposed earlier […]
California: Paradise Burning
(E) The New Yorker has a fantastic video about the state of California Central Valley. It is “gripped by one of the worst droughts on record, and the livelihood of […]
Nao is Driving its Own Car
(T) RobotsLAB, an education company that provides STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) curriculum featuring robots, has developed a fun application with Nao, the famous humanoid robot: Nao is now driving its own car! […]
We Are Losing the Battle Against the Ebola Virus!
(E) Everyone knows about it. We are losing the battle against the Ebola virus. However, instead of taking that challenge seriously, we seem to have been indifferent and complacent. Docteur […]
Reducing the Requirements on Computation for Big Data by Leveraging Statistical Inference
(T) One of the San Francisco machine learning meet-ups invited Professor Michael Jordan from UC Berkeley for a talk at Yelp this week. Professor Jordan is an active researcher in machine learning […]
The Age of Sustainable Development
(E) Professor Jeffrey Sachs has started a class on Coursera about Sustainable Development. This is a very important topic that everyone must study. At least, please watch the videos if […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2014
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: YC Demo Day Session 1, Session […]
The Search is On
(E) Following is a message that I received from the Climate Reality Project and that I would like to share with everyone: “This fall, a group of young people between […]
Prof. Mirzakhani Avila Bhargava and Hairer Winning the 2014 Fields Medals
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Medals or they solve a challenging problem. This year winners of the Fields Medals, awarded to the new generation […]
Recommending Music on Spotify with Deep Learning
(T) Do you enjoy listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos? If you do, you are likely to appreciate Vivaldi’s violin concertos as well. Musicians learn from each other. And, musicians influence […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Pepper the Emotional Robot
(E) Charismatic Aldebaran’s CEO Bruno Maisonniers recently launched his latest humanoid robot: Pepper. Pepper was designed for the Japanese market, and for Aldebaran’s owner Softbank. Pepper wants to be first and foremost […]
The Rise of Social Robots – Meet Jibo the Family Robot
(E) Famous M.I.T. Professor Cynthia Breazeal, took a leave of absence from the Media Lab to work and launch her company and first commercial robot Jibo. She also announced a crowdfunding campaign […]
Making Enchanting Homes with Ordinary Things with Extraordinary Powers!
(E) Would it be nice to have your door sensing your sweeties coming home, your umbrella knowing if today will be a rainy day, your air conditioner anticipating when you […]
From Menlo Park to Prague and Vienna – A Thrilling Musical Journey
(E) The Twelfth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically to Vienna and Prague through the music of Antonin […]
Microsoft Deep Learning Image Classifier
(T) At its 15th annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft demonstrated its latest deep learning image classifier named Project Adam. Adam was demonstrated on a smartphone to identify the exact breed […]
Technology not Negotiations will Lead us to Deep Decarbonisation of our Global Economy
(E) Professor Jeffrey Sachs, leading authority (and one of my favorite teachers) in sustainable development has published a new article on climate change negotiations, which have failed miserably so far to […]
Would you Want an Emotional Relationship with a Digital Mind?
(T) By 2029, you might be able to have an emotional relationship with a “Digital Friend” on the Internet, on your desktop, or who knows with your wearable as did […]
Less Expensive to Manufacture in the US
(B) This is not a new fact but it is interesting to hear it from Walmart, a company that knows how to find the cheapest suppliers: “For the first time […]
Fitness and Activity Trackers
(E) New York Times Tech columnist Molly Wood made an interesting video review this week of two fitness bands: the LG Lifeband Touch and the Samsung Gear Fit, two wearable […]
