Friday, July 24, 2015

Autotune



So I sing Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake songs in the car, and I want to know if Autotune can make me sound like Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
 

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Age Progression Software



Ira Kemelmacher is a Computer Science and Engineering professor, and her approach to "aging" people via algorithms is systematic indeed. But I hope she incorporates specific and sufficient personal data, before she ages a particular person. Health and genetics, occupation and lifestyle, as well as climate all figure in how any of us ages. It was good that she inputted old photos of the interviewer, but she probably needed many, many more photos of him. Her progression of him to 80 years old didn't look very different at all from his current looks. So either she took a very conservative approach for this example or her algorithms need much development and refinement.
  

Monday, July 20, 2015

Roundhouse



The Roundhouse is like a giant Lazy Susan, and can turn a locomotive of several tons with the brute strength of just one person.
 

Friday, July 10, 2015

Buckminster Fuller


This is the Dymaxion House. In the past, this was the future. But now that it's the future, this is in the past. Got it? Good.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Thomas Edison


Inventing relates to the creation of entirely new things... Innovation really is about how those things are adopted and adapted.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Orville and Wilbur Wright



From bicycling to flying, Orville and Wilbur Wright go on an unlikely journey marked by little discoveries and bold experimentation.

 

Friday, June 26, 2015

IBM Think on Cloud (4)


Eric Friedman, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Fitbit, Inc. and Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, Software and Cloud Solutions Group, IBM discuss cloud at the 2014 IBM THINK Forum.
Friedman offers a clear glimpse into the underpinnings of Fitbit: controlling capital spend at startup, while proving the feasibility of both its technology product and business model, and gathering Big Data as customers around the world unwrap their devices on Christmas Day.  The cloud enables it all for Fitbit, and its capability and capacity grow with it.