Many of you know that I am one of the survivors of September 11th, escaping the WTC North Tower when New York City was attacked. But I never told you the amazing effort of our city’s recovery. On August 26th 2004, just 2 weeks shy of the annual anniversary, NYPD called me. An officer told [...]
September 11th, 2008 | | ContinuedRecent Articles
When He’s a She, an Olympic Challenge for Natural Language Understanding
Here is a big challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantics experts! In a recent article – State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age – about He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, this funny line appeared: He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to [...]
August 14th, 2008 | | Continued
Last Lecture from Randy Pausch
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia. On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But Randy Pausch first [...]
July 25th, 2008 | | Continued
Kohonen received the IEEE Award for Outstanding Contributions
Dr. Teuvo Kohonen received the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the theory and applications for neural networks, associative memories and the self-organizing map. The Award was presented to him at the 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence hosted in Hong Kong. I was at the banquet with Dr. Kohonen [...]
June 12th, 2008 | | Continued
Interview with Lotfi Zadeh: Inventor of Fuzzy Logic
My “Interviews with Great Minds” is a series of video blogs with creative people who have original thoughts and who have impacted the world with their vision of future technologies. My first guest is Professor Lotfi Zadeh. Lotfi is the inventor of Fuzzy Logic. With every click of your camera, with every turn of your [...]
May 27th, 2008 | | Continued
Modeling TRUST for Enterprise Social Networks
Companies are ramping up social network services in their organizations. Many managers are asking how to increase content contribution from employees and how to measure the success of enterprise social network. I suggest that they should start thinking about the human motivation and behavior factor. After the dotcom bubble burst in early 2000, many companies [...]
May 9th, 2008 | | Continued
NYC Science and Technology Map
Many people asked me if there are any technology museums in NYC. Yes, we’ve wonderful science and technology museums and… we have the Apple Store Fifth Avenue open 24 hours! See the Google map I created below (click on it to see the details). View Larger Map Apple Store at Fifth Avenue (HIGHLY recommended) It’s [...]
May 5th, 2008 | | Continued
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008)
Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and composed of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), WCCI 2008 will be the largest [...]
May 1st, 2008 | | Continued
2008 FIRST Championship
I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08†headline. ATLANTA – [...]
April 30th, 2008 | | Continued
Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies (cont’d 2)
April is a favorite time to think about innovation… and it ain’t over yet.  Two weeks ago, I gathered the Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies. I saw BusinessWeek just updated the 2008 list – The World’s Most Innovative Companies (read below). Not surprising, the consistent players in the top 10 are Apple, Google, and GE.  The World’s Most Innovative [...]
April 24th, 2008 | | Continued
