(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 […]
(E) New York Times Tech columnist Molly Wood made an interesting video review this week of two fitness bands: the LG Lifeband Touch and the Samsung Gear Fit, two wearable […]
(T) I do remember a while ago that Professor Alan Guth from MIT, the father of the Inflationary Universe Theory, said that the next step in better understanding the evolution of the Universe […]
(T) San Francisco has certainly one of the best engineering workforces for Web front-end technologies. I am trying to attend many developer meetings as I can. But there is so […]
(B) Start-ups and established players should be focusing on creating and innovating. Patent litigation is a major hurdle for technology companies that want to change the world. And efforts to […]
(B) One day, we hear governments working together to keep the bad guys out the Internet: the US, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ukraine, and the UK collaborating together to route […]
(T) The real challenge is not researching new algorithms that will help organizations to find valuable insights in large data sets. The real challenge is for organizations to focus on […]
