(T) Tomorrow starts the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Over 20,000 attendees, programmers, artists, producers, designers, audio engineers are expected! A lot of fun talks, events […]
(B) By popular demand, and to help one of my best friends to better invest, I will be writing a few articles about great investors who inspired me. I am […]
(T) Artificial intelligence, neural networks, quantum computing, bioinformatics…those are exciting fields for computer scientists. But while quantum computing and bioinformatics are still new, artificial intelligence and neural networks have been […]
(B) Every year, I am noticing a bigger crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. Besides Le Web in December in Paris, this is probably becoming one of the most “must see” […]
(B) For the last few years, the RSA Security Conference holds on Monday before the security conference starts, the Innovation Sandbox which showcases a number of emerging security technologies and start-ups. Last […]
(T) One of my favorite keynotes at the RSA Security Conference is definitely the Cryptographers‘ Panel. The speakers at the panels are always the same – two of the three […]
(B) I like to say that there are three kinds of people in Silicon Valley. Those who love technology, those who want to make money, and those who want to […]
(B) Probably one of the best comments that I have read about Dell going private is the Bloomberg interview of Edward Conard, a former private equity investor from Bain Capital. […]
(B) The famous French newspaper “Le Monde” had an article quite characteristic of the European culture this weekend: “Jeunes diplomès où trouver la securitè de l’emploi?” – “Young graduates where […]
(B) Do you remember “People Express” or the “HP Way”? I believe that they are still part of the basic case studies in business schools to learn about the value […]
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from the Blackstone […]
(B) Foreword: I re-read and copied in the following article sections of a paper that I wrote a long time ago that analyzed the concepts for innovations in a tech […]
(B) Foreword: I re-read and copied in the following article sections of a paper that I wrote a long time ago that analyzed the innovations that were not invented by […]
(B) FreeBSD, Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python, Wikipedia, WordPress, Hadoop…the list goes on-and-on of projects that have been open sourced. In the 80s, software was about standards. Customers wanted standards […]
(B) We had a piece of great and bad news this week. The good news first…The US Energy Information Administration has released a new report which concluded that the “U.S. carbon dioxide […]
(T) One of the many challenges of providing cloud-based consumer Web services is first to invest in the required computing infrastructure, and second to maximize the ROI of that infrastructure. […]
(T) While database engineers from the last two decades were trained to develop with SQL databases, the new generations of engineers are trained to develop with NoSQL databases for Big […]
(T) To cover the capital investments (CAPEX) and the operating investments (OPEX) required for a cloud-based infrastructure such as the ones from Facebook, Yahoo, or Amazon, in order to provide a […]
(E) From the early days, philosophers have been philosophizing about human civilizations sculptured with two antagonists forces: love and hate, and four elements – the earth, water, air, and fire. […]
(T) Over the last year, I have attended many hackathons, and in that course learned many new technologies. Hackathons are a great way for developers to learn new programming languages […]
