(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(E) NASA will have its worldwide space apps hackathon next weekend on April 22-24. The Silicon Valley location for the hackathon will be at SAP Success Factors, South San Francisco. […]
(T) Google has recently announced its new Cloud Machine Learning offering. Google Cloud Machine Learning leverages many Google products: TensorFlow, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Storage. The initial machine learning Python APIs […]
(T) Data has shape. Shape reveals a pattern. That pattern provides insights into the data. This is what and why Topology Data Analysis (TDA) does. TDA attempts to find the […]
(E) In my previous post, I talked about the many benefits of having a side project. Last month, I attended the musical play “Into the Woods” performed by high school […]
(E) Venture Capital investor and Blogger Fred Wilson posted a few days ago an interesting article on his blog about having a side project. Mr. Wilson mostly analyzed a side […]
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2016 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: The top […]
(B) As it is the case every year, SXSW, while being a music, film, and entertainment event, is also showcasing technology and media start-ups in its start-up village. Techcrunch has […]
(T) At the same time that the RSA Security Conference is happening this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, everyone is talking and writing about the battle between […]
(E) Bill and Melinda Gates, in their 2016 annual letter are responding to some high school students questions: “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” While Melinda responded […]
(E) I have been attending many wonderful performances at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra but yesterday night was the first time, I witnessed a performer performing “an encore” under the […]
(T) Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer programmed with brute force analysis, defeated Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 over six games. IBM’s Watson won Jeopardy! in 2011. This week the […]
(T) I had the opportunity to go last October to the Data Science Camp 2015 of the San Francisco Bay ACM. The keynote of the conference was given by Joseph […]
