Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2017
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron […]
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron […]
(T) While Elon Musk recently announced Telsa’s first solar roof titles in Southern California, the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, Ségolène Royale, announced at the end of […]
(B) Bill Gates has recently announced the launch of the Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) fund, a fund that will invest over $1 billion in scientific breakthroughs that have the potential […]
(T) Following is the second lecture on the Quantum Computational Universe given by Professor Patrick Hayden. Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened […]
(T) Each Fall and Winter, the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics organizes a lecture, opened to the public, by Stanford Physics faculty on recent fundamental advances in theoretical physics. I […]
(E) I have attended over the years many performances of the San Francisco Opera: Carmen, La Boheme, Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Salome…And so, I had the privilege to hear […]
(T) There are many data science meet-ups in the Bay Area mostly about the latest algorithms and tools, but very few are focusing on a specific application domain such as […]
(T) An incredible result from neuroscientist Gregoire Coutine and his team from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. They implanted a wireless implant bypassing spinal-cord injuries in paralyzed […]
(T) If you are interested to learn and share your experience and expertise in functional programming, reactive microservices, and data pipelines for machine learning, you definitely want to attend next […]
(T) I found an interesting segmentation of the various types of analytics from an IBM’s article promoting its IBM Power Systems: “Descriptive analytics: This type determines what is happening based […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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: […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]