(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(T) I do remember a while ago that Professor Alan Guth from MIT, the father of the Inflationary Universe Theory, said that the next step in better understanding the evolution of the Universe […]
(T) San Francisco has certainly one of the best engineering workforces for Web front-end technologies. I am trying to attend many developer meetings as I can. But there is so […]
(B) Start-ups and established players should be focusing on creating and innovating. Patent litigation is a major hurdle for technology companies that want to change the world. And efforts to […]
(B) One day, we hear governments working together to keep the bad guys out the Internet: the US, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ukraine, and the UK collaborating together to route […]
(T) The real challenge is not researching new algorithms that will help organizations to find valuable insights in large data sets. The real challenge is for organizations to focus on […]
(T) Internet networks have been designed with two major types of protocols: data plane protocols and control plane protocols. The data plane is in charge of forwarding the packets from […]
(B) I was not surprised to hear that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty, interviewed on CNBC yesterday, considered that cloud and data are key to the present growth of IBM. I was […]
(T) There are many objects which look like a bicycle but are not a bicycle. A person will make the difference between all those objects and tell accurately which one […]
(T) The goal of Machine Learning (ML) is to develop algorithms for making predictions from an existing data set. First, you start by collecting the data and analyzing it. Second, […]
(E) If Microsoft software has a vulnerability either in one of its application such as Internet Explorer or Office or in its Windows operating system – no problem – just […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, […]
(T) Over a week ago, I received an interesting article from an online magazine French District about “le vetement intelligent” or “smart clothing”… “Il fut un temps où le pull tenait chaud, le […]
(E) “Aujourd’hui Maman est morte” – “Today, Mother died”. The first sentence of “The Stranger” was very original for the beginning of a novel when it was published and has […]
(B) This week was the Game Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A lot of people, a lot of events, and a lot of parties! At the same time, […]
(B) Y Combinator had a very successful Female Founders Conference at the Computer Museum earlier this month. Highlights of the conference as well as all the videos are now online and on the Y Combinator YouTube Channel. […]
(B) Yale Professor’s and Nobel Prize winner’s in economy Professor Schiller wrote a must-read article yesterday about Bitcoin in the New York Times: In search of a stable electronic currency. Professor Schiller […]
(T) “We have to trust the infrastructure (of the Internet)…The fact that it has been subverted in ways we don’t understand…we don’t know what to trust. And that is an […]
(B) Earlier this month, Regis McKenna was interviewed by NY Times journalist John Markoff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. McKenna talked in this interview about his career, his marketing firm Regis McKenna Inc, the […]
(T) At the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris last year, Spanish Choregrapher Blanca Li explored with poetry the relationships between humans and robots. In her show Robots!, the robot character is played by Nao, the […]
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