(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) The New Yorker has a fantastic video about the state of California Central Valley. It is “gripped by one of the worst droughts on record, and the livelihood of […]
(T) RobotsLAB, an education company that provides STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) curriculum featuring robots, has developed a fun application with Nao, the famous humanoid robot: Nao is now driving its own car! […]
(E) Everyone knows about it. We are losing the battle against the Ebola virus. However, instead of taking that challenge seriously, we seem to have been indifferent and complacent. Docteur […]
(T) One of the San Francisco machine learning meet-ups invited Professor Michael Jordan from UC Berkeley for a talk at Yelp this week. Professor Jordan is an active researcher in machine learning […]
(E) Professor Jeffrey Sachs has started a class on Coursera about Sustainable Development. This is a very important topic that everyone must study. At least, please watch the videos if […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: YC Demo Day Session 1, Session […]
(E) Following is a message that I received from the Climate Reality Project and that I would like to share with everyone: “This fall, a group of young people between […]
(E) We only hear about great mathematicians when they receive their Fields Medals or they solve a challenging problem. This year winners of the Fields Medals, awarded to the new generation […]
(T) Do you enjoy listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos? If you do, you are likely to appreciate Vivaldi’s violin concertos as well. Musicians learn from each other. And, musicians influence […]
(E) Charismatic Aldebaran’s CEO Bruno Maisonniers recently launched his latest humanoid robot: Pepper. Pepper was designed for the Japanese market, and for Aldebaran’s owner Softbank. Pepper wants to be first and foremost […]
(E) Famous M.I.T. Professor Cynthia Breazeal, took a leave of absence from the Media Lab to work and launch her company and first commercial robot Jibo. She also announced a crowdfunding campaign […]
(E) Would it be nice to have your door sensing your sweeties coming home, your umbrella knowing if today will be a rainy day, your air conditioner anticipating when you […]
(E) The Twelfth Season of Music@Menlo, one of the best music festivals in Silicon Valley, is promising to make us travel musically to Vienna and Prague through the music of Antonin […]
(T) At its 15th annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft demonstrated its latest deep learning image classifier named Project Adam. Adam was demonstrated on a smartphone to identify the exact breed […]
(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 […]
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