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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 21, 2015

2015 SXSW Accelerator Finalists

(B) This year, I did not notice a big crowd from Silicon Valley going to SXSW in Austin. SXSW is mostly about music, film, and entertainment. But with the evolution of computing […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 15, 2015

Young and Experienced Performers

(E) Qu’il fait bon de vivre à San Francisco si vous aimez l’art! How nice is it to live in San Francisco if you love art! In less than three months, violinist […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 8, 2015

From Black Holes to Superconductors – Part 1

(E) I attended a lecture from Professor Sean Hartnoll from the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, which has many well-known physicists such as Professor Leonard Sussking for his research in String Theory and Professor Andrei Linde for […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 25, 2015

Playing Games with Reinforcement Learning

(T) The DeepMind Technologies team in London has just published a paper in Nature: “human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”. The Deep Neural Network called  Deep Q-Network (DQN) combines a Reinforcement Learning algorithm with Experience Replay […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 14, 2015

The Internet Economy

(B) I had a chance to read some of the research of the 2014 Economy Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole about the innovation and the adoption of new technologies. Probably his most […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 7, 2015

The World’s First Solar-Powered Family Car

(T)  TechCrunch had its 8th Annual Crunchies Award at the San Francisco Symphony’s Davies Hall this week. You can read everything that happened at the event on the TechCrunch’s site. I […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on February 1, 2015

Changing the World after 50!

(E) The New Yorker has an excellent article “The Pursuit of Beauty” and a fun video to watch this week about the life of Yitang Zhang, from the University of New […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 24, 2015

The Impact of the Facebook News Feed on Your Life

(T)  Social networks like computer networks can be considered in a simplified way as having both a connection and application layers. The connection layer in a computer network aims to […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on January 10, 2015

Quantum Biology

(T) Over the holidays, I discovered the book from Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden “Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology”. Doctor Al-Khalili is a pioneer […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 14, 2014

Authentic and Wise Advises to a Junior Programmer

(T) As I am doing a fair amount of programming in Python, I am always discovering new resources from the “extensive” Python community. I found that video from a talk […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on December 7, 2014

Software Defined Internet Exchange (SDX)

(T) I attended on Thursday a talk from Professor Nick Feamster from Georgia Tech at Stanford University to enable inter-domain routing for Software Defined Networks (SDN) at Internet Exchange Points […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 30, 2014

Mining of Massive Datasets

(T) I was delighted to take Mining of Massive Datasets MOOC on Coursera this quarter from Professor Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman from Stanford University. The course goes […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 29, 2014

Another Military-Grade Malware – Not a Good Thing!

(T) Both Symantec and Kaspersky have disclosed their findings of Regin – the latest discovered military-grade surveillance malware. Symantec has published a good white paper about the capabilities and the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 15, 2014

Let’s not Kill Software Defined Networks with Standards but Let it Grow with Open Source Software

(T) I was interested to receive this month IEEE Computer Magazine “special edition” about Software Defined Networks (SDN). Unfortunately, the Magazine focused on describing the present efforts to standardize the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 14, 2014

Understanding the Ebola Virus

(E) Excellent article from Ars Technica for: “Understanding the Ebola virus”. As the title mentioned it: “The virus itself is really nothing special – until it gets inside a human”. […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on November 2, 2014

Why Don’t We Stop Greenhouse Emissions Today?

(E) The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has just released today its latest Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report. Please read the press release, the report and watch the press conference: Press […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 31, 2014

Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for K-Means Clustering

(T) Niels Bohr believed “that anyone who thinks they can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy doesn’t understand it” while Albert Einstein couldn’t accept quantum mechanics because as he said, “I […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 30, 2014

Transforming the Customer Experience

(B) Most of the early waves of new technology have been adopted and developed by businesses. Since 2000, early adoption of new technologies has shifted from businesses to consumers. Enterprises […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 23, 2014

Using Robots to Help Medical Staffs Against Ebola

(E) The White House is now considering robots for winning the fight against the Ebola virus: Intouch health’s remote presence robot, Xenex’s germ-zapping robot, and humanoid robots. A series of brainstorming meetings […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 17, 2014

Regulating Markets – When and How To Do It?

(E) When I go to Europe, I can obverse how too much market regulations sometimes do not stimulate higher standards of living. But when I am in the US, I […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 15, 2014

A Wearable that You Must Wear

(E) There are a lot of ideas of wearables. But the fundamental question is: Will you wear them? Will they be practical? Will they be fashionable? The Skully AR-1 is definitely one […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on October 9, 2014

This Week-End: Silicon Valley Code Camp

(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 4,386 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on September 28, 2014

Superconducting Quantum Circuits

(T) Professor Martinis from UCSB and his team of students have made recently a significant contribution to the field of quantum computing. Their contribution has been so significant that Google proposed earlier […]

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