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  • Traveling on Light

    Great article in NYT. You can find full article here. The article is so inspiring. Anything is possible when you let yourself inspire by your dreams. The next break came when Dr. Friedman was talking about the LightSail to a group of potential donors. A man — “a very modest dear person,” in Ms. Druyan’s… Read more

  • Natural Language Interface Microsoft Research

    With thx to xstof for spotting this one. Looks like i cannot embed the video, so please go here or click the picture below. It turns out 2019 is getting closer every day. At the moment, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officerCraig Mundie is doing the rounds at a number of prestigious colleges in the… Read more

  • No Belgian University in WW Top-100

    The Academic Ranking of World Universities just got published. Not a single Belgian University in the Top-100. Leuven comes in at 102 and Ghent at 106. I found this resource via Eric Drexler’s blog, which was focusing on Asian Universities. The “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (ARWU) is widely regarded as the best objective, international… Read more

  • Marketplace: a commodity

    Here is force.com from Salesforce. As far as i am concerned, the way a marketplace should look like. Already more than 800 apps available, more than 70 of them are financial apps. Also have a look at the US Government marketplace. Everything’s up there. With pricing info, liability clauses, shopping basket, etc Some believe building… Read more

  • The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity

    One of the very best presentations at last month’s Singularity Summit. And it comes from a European 😉 Lots of inspirarational slides and ideas, and – as a bonus – Jürgen is quite funny as well when presenting. Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 – Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from… Read more

  • The Future by Chris Anderson

      Big Think Interview with Chris Anderson CHRIS ANDERSON Editor-in-Chief, Wired A conversation with the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail and Free: The Future of a Radical Price. October 29, 2009  |  In Business & Economics, Science & Tech, Media & Internet You can see the 36 min video here.… Read more