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Start-up Environment in China

Carl Eschenbach, this week’s guest speaker, made a rather intriguing comment about the start-up environment in China. While comparing two lists of tech companies with top capitalizations in 1992 and 2017, he mentioned, “The companies from China already have the top capitalizations in the world. My guess would be, if we spent one year [.… Read more Start-up Environment in China

Swipe to unlock - Where UX/UI is heading

First is not always the best. The way that we interact with our devices has changed over a very short period of time. Rather than pushing physical buttons and turning clunky dials, most of our interactions with our devices comes down to a series of taps and swipes on a digital screen. By moving towards… Read more Swipe to unlock - Where UX/UI is heading

Commonalities and differences in Apple's and Google's announcements

A great way to see the upcoming trends in technology is to see what the big players in the business are doing, in this case I’ll compare how Apple and Google see the future of technology by analyzing their announcements at their developer conferences. Developer conferences are a big deal nowadays, some time ago there… Read more Commonalities and differences in Apple's and Google's announcements

AI to Empower Google

In this year’s Google I/O, annual developer conference held by Google, new features and announcements were released, and they were just as good as those from previous years, if not better. Some of the key features include Android P, updated Google Home and Google Duplex. My favorite feature, and I’m sure it’s also many people’s… Read more AI to Empower Google

Montreal, Canada - The new AI super-cluster

For many people, this blog’s title might seem bold or crazy, but many key players in Montreal’s rapidly growing artificial-intelligence sector are working hard on transforming the city into a Silicon Valley of AI. Yes, you read it right, Montreal… For those who are already lost, I’m talking about Montreal, a city located in the… Read more Montreal, Canada - The new AI super-cluster

Five AI Research Organizations to Watch

During our Week 5 presentations, we learned about the current state of AI and Haystack TV, Lark and Pinterest’s use of the technology. During the past few years, innovation in the field has accelerated rapidly, enabling a host of new solutions that weren’t possible in the not-too-distant past. As Daniel stated in class, due to… Read more Five AI Research Organizations to Watch

Emotion recognition for good or evil?

In the 1970s Paul Ekman pioneered the study of facial expressions by creating a catalog of more than 5,000 muscle movements to show how expressions reveal hidden emotions (1). Today AI and machine learning teach machines to understand and react to our emotions. Vaish and Kumari defines emotion as “a psycho-physiological process triggered by conscious… Read more Emotion recognition for good or evil?

Big Data in the Cloud

So you have decided that you’re ready to implement a big data solution and you plan to do it in the cloud. How will you choose what’s best for your organization? With all of the hoopla around big data, NoSQL and the like, this blog will provide some background and a review of the options… Read more Big Data in the Cloud

Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

On the morning of the 27th of June 2017, Stanford Medicine and Duke University School, welcomed a few volunteers into their offices. Every participant had to sign a consent form before they could collect two devices that will monitor their biomedical stats for the next few years (heartbeat, activity, sleep pattern etc.). The project is… Read more Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

Will you have your own Personal Quantum Computer (PqC) any time soon?

PCs In 1947, Howard Aiken an American engineer predicted that only six computers would be needed to satisfy the computing needs of the United States. Today over  73% of US adults own a desktop/laptop computer and the number of computers in the world continues to increase. Since the first personal computer was introduced by IBM… Read more Will you have your own Personal Quantum Computer (PqC) any time soon?