Vinod Khosla on AI, Healthcare, and Education

by jeffrey.taekman on January 16, 2012 · 0 Comments · in Artificial Intelligence, Education, Gaming, Ideas, Opinion, Technology

Legendary Silicon Valley investor, Vinod Khosla, wrote a 3-part series on technology for TechCrunch. In part 1 he writes about Artificial Intelligence. In part 2 he talks about how computers, mobile apps, and AI could augment (or even replace) healthcare workers. In part 3 he talks about how technology will change education (although his focus [...]

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The Birthplace of SIRI-SRI International

by jeffrey.taekman on January 1, 2012 · 0 Comments · in Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Robotics, SIRI

I was one of the first people in line to buy an iPhone 4s–primarily to get my hands on SIRI. I just finished reading a story on Wired.com about the birthplace of SIRI–SRI International (formerly known as the Stanford Research Institute). I learned that SIRI shares it’s birthplace with other incredible technology such as Nuance’s [...]

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Steve Jobs On Gaming: It’s The Future Of Learning [Video] | Cult of Mac

by jeffrey.taekman on December 31, 2011 · 0 Comments · in Visonaries

Those of you that know me personally know my long-standing admiration of Steve Jobs. I never was able to meet the man, but he, and the products he created, have had a huge impact on my life. I’m currently reading the Job’s biography written by Walter Isaacson–an excellent read. Cult of Mac posted a link [...]

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“Help me Obi-Wan” 3D Display

November 16, 2011 by michael.steele

New laser technology can excite air particles to create 3D images in “free space”. It really might be the beginnings of Star Wars style holographic display. From http://www.tvkim.com/watch/1520/kims-picks-3-d-images-in-thin-air

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Adobe’s Flash: Beep Beep Beep Beeeeeeeeeeeee

November 10, 2011 by michael.steele

Flash is dead!! Well almost, as soon as the 100,000s of actionscript programmers convert their stuff to HTML5. There are a lot of serious games written in Flash. It’ll be interesting to see them port to HTML5 and what ecosystems are created to support those efforts. A great HTML5 serious game engine would be appreciated.  [...]

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Article on EPIC’s UnReal for use in Serious Gaming

November 9, 2011 by michael.steele

MIT’s Technology Review provides a quick overview of how EPIC’s UnReal game engine is used for serious games.

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Interview: ‘Life Game’ Mindbloom Born From Triple-A Stress

October 1, 2011 by jeffrey.taekman

Gamasutra has an interesting interview with Chris Hewitt and his new game Mindbloom. Work-Life balance is something we all struggle with–Mindbloom is a serious game focused on improving our overall well-being.   [A decade in AAA taught former Monolith EP Chris Hewitt about how challenging quality of life can be -- lessons he's applying to [...]

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Chatbot Duel

September 3, 2011 by jeffrey.taekman

What happens when two chatbots are set loose to speak to one another? Watch the linked movie to find out…   [Link: www.i-programmer.info...]

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New graphics tech to revolutionize realism?

August 2, 2011 by michael.steele

Euclideon claims to have built a point based graphics technology that can render a large number of objects in real time. Their video is impressive, but I’ll believe it when I see a demo on normal hardware.  If true, it could dramatically change the level of realism possible for medical simulation. We are typically restricted [...]

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Nerd War: “The GMail Man” – Microsoft takes it to Google in this Parody Video

July 28, 2011 by jeffrey.taekman

Check out this pitch for Office 365–a parody of GMail. Amusing. I personally love my Gmail, especially augmented with MailPlane. I can’t wait to see if Google retaliates. Enjoy!

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