. . Salim Ismail is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries. Salim spent the last three years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames [...]
A Google exec who helped lead the team developing the Nexus 7 tablet sat down with CNET to chat about the Nexus brand and what it means to Google and its partners… Click here for the inside scoop from CNET. Click here to learn about the Apple iPad. Click here to learn about the Kindle [...]
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Daniel Anderson and colleagues explain that development of nanoscale production units for protein-based drugs in the human body may provide a new approach for treating disease… Click here to read the complete report found on the Phys.Org website. Click here to learn more about future medicines. Click here to learn more about Nanotechnology per Wikipedia. [...]
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Hidden within a rock from space is a mineral previously unknown to science: panguite… Click here to access the complete report found on the Wired.com website. Geologist Chi Ma of Caltech is credited with the discovery. Click here for the Fox News report about this announcement titled “1969 Fireball meteorite reveals new ancient mineral”. Click [...]
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The Singularity: when machines surpass human intelligence… Click here for the article written by an 80 year old. Why I Love the Future… Click here to read a second article by the same 80 year old. Did you remember that the first article in my blog post yesterday was written by the same 80 year [...]
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An excellent report found on The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies website… Click here to view it. More about the IEET per their mission statement – The IEET’s mission is to be a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive, ethical approach to the most powerful emerging technologies. We believe that technological progress [...]
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IBM is combining principles from nanoscience, neuroscience and supercomputing as part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded approximately US$21 million in new funding for phase 2 of the SyNAPSE project… Click here to learn more direct from IBM. A brief YouTube introduction – . Click here [...]
In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students in situ — and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast. He shares what he learned about teaching to a global classroom. . . Click here to access my all my education category posts. [...]
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I spy. You spy. We all spy? Researchers have designed a camera that could take 50,000-megapixel shots. Though the team has currently built and tested only a 1,000-megapixel (one gigapixel) camera, they are constructing a 10,000-megapixel version and foresee future cameras with much higher resolution… Click here to view the entire report located on the [...]
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In the words of Peter Diamandis… . . Click here to access more information about the Planetary Resources Kickstarter Project. Don’t forget. If interested, Planetary Resources will send updates and information directly to you. Just indicate your interest by opting in on their website or via an email request to them. Click here to view [...]
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