Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2017
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron […]
The First Solar Road
(T) While Elon Musk recently announced Telsa’s first solar roof titles in Southern California, the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royale, announced at the end of […]
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
(B) Bill Gates has recently announced the launch of the Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) fund, a fund that will invest over $1 billion in scientific breakthroughs that have the potential […]
The Quantum Computational Universe – Part II
(T) Following is the second lecture on the Quantum Computational Universe given by Professor Patrick Hayden. Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened […]
The Quantum Computational Universe – Part I
(T) Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened to the public, by Stanford Physics faculty on recent fundamental advances in theoretical physics. I […]
The San Francisco Opera Has a New Voice: Lianna Haroutounian
(E) I have attended over the years many performances of the San Francisco Opera: Carmen, La Boheme, Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Salome…And so, I had the privilege to hear […]
Data Science for Sustainability
(T) There are many data science meet-ups in the Bay Area mostly about the latest algorithms and tools, but very few are focusing on a specific application domain such as […]
Wireless Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys to Walk
(T) An incredible result from neuroscientist Gregoire Coutine and his team from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. They implanted a wireless implant bypassing spinal-cord injuries in paralyzed […]
Scala By the Bay
(T) If you are interested to learn and share your experience and expertise in functional programming, reactive microservices, and data pipelines for machine learning, you definitely want to attend next […]
The Democratization of Analytics
(T) I found an interesting segmentation of the various types of analytics from an IBM’s article promoting its IBM Power Systems: “Descriptive analytics: This type determines what is happening based […]
AI for Dummies: History and Techniques
(E) An excellent and fun article to read, if you want to understand the recent developments and most popular applications of AI, Roger Parloff’s in Forbes, ”Why deep learning is […]
DARPA Cyber Security Programs
(T) Interesting interview from Bloomberg’s Emily Chang with Arati Prabhakar, director at DARPA, this week, from self-driving cars to self-driving ships. More interesting are Mrs. Prabhakar’s comments on cybersecurity, in […]
IoT Botnet Mirai Today in Action in Dyn’s DDoS
(T) Large-scale Internet attacks are now reaching a point where their impacts are incredible. Leveraging Mirai a botnet that launches attacks from DVRs, IP Cameras and other IoT devices, multiple […]
Helping Haiti Recovering from Hurricane Matthew
(E) Please help Haiti recovering from Hurricane Matthew. While Jeremie, a coastal city of Haiti was just starting to prosper since the 2010 Earthquake that killed over 200,000 Haitians, Hurricane […]
So Many AI and ML Product Announcements from the Big Players…
(T) There are so many AI and ML product announcements from the largest tech companies, that it is hard to keep up – competitive technology advantages are going to erode quickly: […]
This WeekEnd: Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Evergreen Valley College in San-Jose, 2,515 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Silicon Valley Code Camp prepared and supported by 193 volunteers. Certainly the biggest code camp […]
The New GE Digital
(B) You have probably seen on TV the new commercial from GE – “Sarah: GE is the perfect mix of digital and industrial – an ideal combination like peanut butter […]
From Storm to Heron
(T) Many start-ups have been embracing Storm for real-time processing of big data into their cloud applications. A Storm topology consumes streams of data, and processes those streams in arbitrarily […]
Autonomous Cars: AI Killer App?
(T) In Silicon Valley, you learned more by meeting people in an informal setting, than through business meetings and conferences. A friend of mine invited me yesterday to a party. […]
Data Stolen from a NSA Server
(T) The media have just broadcasted this week that 300 Megabytes of data stolen from an NSA server has been posted on the Internet. The data seems to be cyberweapon […]
Y Combinator Demo Day Summer 2016
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The […]
Meeting Pepper – the Emotional Robot – at b8ta in Palo Alto
(T) I just received an e-mail that the b8ta store at 516 Bryant Street in Palo Alto will have for one week Pepper – the emotional robot from Aldebaran in […]
Quantum Encryption and Post-Quantum Cryptography
(T) Researchers have been working on quantum encryption for a long time. Quantum encryption is based on quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD algorithms can leverage well-defined quantum states (or photon […]
