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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 29, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 23, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 21, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 11, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 7, 2016

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: […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 28, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 18, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 5, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 28, 2016

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. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 27, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 26, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on August 7, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 31, 2016

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 […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 24, 2016

Russian Reflections

(E) The Fourteenth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically this year and explore, according to the festival […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 10, 2016

The Horrific, Predictable Result of a Widely Armed Citizenry

(E) I cannot agree more with Mr. Adam Gopnik from the New Yorker – there are many cases, where we can do much about the WHY but in all cases, […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on July 3, 2016

iOS and Android Security Models

(T) The architecture and implementation of iOS and Android are both similar when you compare feature-to-feature, and different when you compare implementation-to-implementation. Very basically, the iOS security model is based […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on June 26, 2016

Brexit and the Future of Europe

(B) Like many of us, I still do not understand the Brexit vote. Is it a distrust of the benefits of the global economic system? A return to nationalist movements […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on June 19, 2016

Today La Fete De La Musique in Palo Alto

(E) La Fete de La Musique, also known as World Music Day, is usually taking place on June 21st, the summer solstice – the longest day of the year! On […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 29, 2016

Machine Learning @ Pinterest

(T) I had the opportunity to listen last month Stanford University’s Professor Jure Leskovecdiscussing Machine Learning @ Pinterest. Professor Leskovec founded Kosei, a start-up that was acquired by Pinterest. He […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 22, 2016

From Mobile-First to AI-First?

(T) If you did not have the chance to attend Google IO this week at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, most of the videos of the talks are now […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 15, 2016

We Need an Energy Miracle

(E) I wrote a few weeks ago an article on Bill Gates encouraging the new generation of young kids to start researching new technologies which will help our world to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on May 1, 2016

Data Engineering @ Facebook

(T) While in most start-ups, data analysis (analyzing the data), data science (designing the algorithms), and data engineering (developing the data infrastructure) are handled by the same person, at Facebook […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 24, 2016

Decoding the Signal between the Eye Retina and the Brain Neurons to Cure Blindness

(E) Finding a cure for blindness! Bionic eyes, to restore human vision for those suffering from partial or total blindness, have been experimenting over the last twenty years. But what […]

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