Pre Copenhagen Climate Change for Dummies
(E) Since the start of the industrial revolution in the 1820s, human combustion of fossil fuels and destruction of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
The Road Map to the Smart Power Grid from EPRI
(T) Is the Smart Power Grid “reality” or “hype”? There are definitely a number of inflated expectations about what is presently the Smart Grid, why do we need it or […]
The Sun Our Future Energy Source
(T) We have many non-fossil alternative energy available to use today. If you consider all of them, the list is pretty long and include at least solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectricity, […]
We Will be Running Out of Oil Soon
(B) We will run out of oil in a few decades. The total world oil production probably peaked in 2008 and will be dropping in the decades ahead. With a […]
How Much Energy Do we Need?
(B) Our body needs to get from our meals 2,000 calories per day or the equivalent of a 100 watts light bulb. In our day-to-day life, every one of us needs […]
The Re Naissance of the San Francisco Opera
(E) With the new music director Nicola Luisotti, the San Francisco Opera has already regained some new excitement, energy, and passion. Even with the cold fog over the AT&T Ball […]
Good Green Tech Readings
(T) While I wrote on that blog that I would like to see more from both Stanford and UC Berkeley as the engines of knowledge in Green-Tech for Silicon Valley, […]
The Challenges Ahead for Microsoft to Sustain its Growth
(T) I do not share the views of many analysts in Wall Street that, even after a terrible Q4 earnings report, are still optimistic about the future of Microsoft. Their […]
Starent Aruba and Riverbed: the New Competitors to Cisco Systems
(T) The Mobile Internet is mostly driven by the new generation of mobile devices, faster wireless networks and all the new Web services that we are using every day. There […]
Can Mobility Drive the NASDAQ to a New Bull Market?
(B) This week on CBNC, our hyper-energetic investor guru Jim Cramer made on his show Mad Money a wild prediction: the 12 day winning days that the Nasdaq had until it came to an […]
Can Silicon Valley Reinvent Itself in Green-Tech?
(T) Every year, around the month of February, I am looking forward to attending some of the events at the Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University. Entrepreneurship Week gives an opportunity for the […]
Too Big to Fail
(B) Are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, General Motors, California, the US Federal Government or the G-7 nations Too Big to Fail (TBTF)? Oops, it looks like the list of […]
Today La Fete de La Musique in Palo Alto
(E) La Fete de La Musique also known as World Music Day, is a World Wide Music Festival taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day […]
Why is Silicon Valley Underperforming? Part II: The Maturity of the High-Tech Industry
(T) Even after 10 years in business, successful and profitable start-ups cannot reach $100M in revenues. It is now a different game for Silicon Valley start-ups. Consider the tale of the […]
Why is Silicon Valley Underperforming? Part I: The Returns of the Venture Capital Funds
(T) OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation, is the first Silicon Valley Initial Public Offering (IPO) this year! And it is the second technology IPOs after SolarWinds, an Austin-based network management software company. […]
Video Demystified: From your Camera to YouTube
(T) One of my engineers who moved last year from China to Silicon Valley watched the entire Olympics Games on the Internet since she did not have at that time […]
Anne-Sophie Mutter and Hilary Hahn at the San Francisco Symphony
(E) Qu’il fait bon de vivre à San Francisco! How nice is it to live in San Francisco! In less than three months, classical music lovers had the great opportunity […]
An Incredible Lesson in Crisis Management
(E) Nearly after a month that Captain Sully Sullenberger and his crew from US Airways Flight 1549, against all odds, successfully landed a plane in the Hudson river offshore of Manhattan, saving […]
Cloud Computing from Your Mobile
(T) We get our music from iTunes, we connect with friends through Facebook, we publish our professional bios on LinkedIn, we find our directions through Google Maps, we share our pictures on Flick , we […]
The Engineers of the Renaissance
(E) Did you know that because he was left-handed, Leonardo Da Vinci often wrote from right to left with reversed or even mirror script? Who would do such a thing? An Engineer! […]
Multifractal Model of Asset Returns
(B) The price of a stock or any other asset trading on the stock market is a multifractal process with fat tails and long-term dependency. The Multifractal Model of Asset […]
Multifractality of the Stock Market
(B) Fractal Geometry is at the heart of Financial Engineering. Pioneered in early 1960 by French American Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, a retired Professor from Yale University and an IBM Scientist and […]
The Stock Market for Dummies
(E) While the stock market is unpredictable, its patterns are very repetitive. Those patterns are the same whether the stock market behaves and investors are making money or the stock […]
A Silicon Valley Insider 