Dr. Rachel Yager
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia.
On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But [...]
Dr. Teuvo Kohonen received the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the theory and applications for neural networks, associative memories and the self-organizing map.
The Award was presented to him at the 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence hosted in Hong Kong. I was at the banquet with Dr. Kohonen [...]
My “Interviews with Great Minds” is a series of video blogs with creative people who have original thoughts and who have impacted the world with their vision of future technologies.
My first guest is Professor Lotfi Zadeh.
Lotfi is the inventor of Fuzzy Logic. With every click of your camera, with every turn of your washing machine [...]
Companies are ramping up social network services in their organizations. Many managers are asking how to increase content contribution from employees and how to measure the success of enterprise social network.
I suggest that they should start thinking about the human motivation and behavior factor.
After the dotcom bubble burst in early 2000, many companies took [...]
Many people asked me if there are any technology museums in NYC. Yes, we’ve wonderful science and technology museums and… we have the Apple Store Fifth Avenue open 24 hours!
See the Google map I created below (click on it to see the details).
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Apple Store at Fifth Avenue (HIGHLY recommended)
It’s not a museum, but [...]
Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and composed of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), WCCI 2008 will be the largest [...]
May 1st, 2008 | | Continued
I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video
For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08” headline.
ATLANTA – April [...]
April is a favorite time to think about innovation… and it ain’t over yet.
Two weeks ago, I gathered the Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies. I saw BusinessWeek just updated the 2008 list – The World’s Most Innovative Companies (read below).
Not surprising, the consistent players in the top 10 are Apple, Google, and GE.
The World’s Most Innovative Companies
Smart ideas for [...]
Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April. There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing. Specifically questions like:
Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services?
Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine?
Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application development easier. Their [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | | Continued
There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago – Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU.
Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and [...]
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