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Will Unicorn Tech Startups Go the Way of the Unicorns?

Will Unicorn Tech Startups Go the Way of the Unicorns?
by Raman Chitkara on 09-06-2016 at 12:00 pm

After a record pace achieved in 2015, there’s no doubt the rate of billion-dollar valuations for startups has cooled down in 2016. But it is too soon to tell if the pause is temporary or reflects a return to the past when billion-dollar valuations for startups were as rare as unicorns.

Success in general brings greater scrutiny and… Read More


Petahertz Electronics?

Petahertz Electronics?
by Bernard Murphy on 09-02-2016 at 7:00 am

In the early days of integrated components, we used to think kHz (~10[SUP]3[/SUP]Hz) processing was pretty wild. Those systems were quickly eclipsed by MHz (~10[SUP]6[/SUP]Hz) performers and now we’re blasé about GHz (~10[SUP]9[/SUP]Hz) speeds. Recently (2014), DARPA announced a THz (~10[SUP]12[/SUP]Hz) amplifier, built… Read More


What is Virtualization?

What is Virtualization?
by Ahmed Banafa on 08-26-2016 at 12:00 pm

Virtualization is software that separates physical infrastructures to create various dedicated resources. It is the fundamental technology that powers cloud computing.

Virtualizationsoftware makes it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same server at the same time,”… Read More


What is Deep Learning?

What is Deep Learning?
by Ahmed Banafa on 08-25-2016 at 4:00 pm

Deep learningis an emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI). A subcategory of machine learning, deep learning deals with the use of neural networks to improve things like speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. It’s quickly becoming one of the most sought-after fields in computer… Read More


Bacteriography

Bacteriography
by Bernard Murphy on 08-25-2016 at 7:00 am

I recently found a couple of articles which caught my interest, both on roles bacteria can play in electronics. The first has to do with a method to form semiconductor-like structures on a sheet of graphene. Graphene is an excellent conductor but in sheet form but conducts more or less equally in all directions. So the first problem… Read More


Why is Jet-Lag Worse Flying East?

Why is Jet-Lag Worse Flying East?
by Bernard Murphy on 08-18-2016 at 7:00 am

Anyone who travels long distances frequently is painfully familiar with this problem, but you may be wondering why I am mentioning it in this forum. The American Institute of Physics has a Chaos journal which looks at interdisciplinary problems in non-linear dynamics and recently published an article on just this topic.

There… Read More


Real Artificial Neurons

Real Artificial Neurons
by Bernard Murphy on 08-16-2016 at 7:00 am

Neural nets are a hot topic these days and encourage us to think of solutions to complex tasks like image recognition in terms of how the human brain handles that task. But our model today for this neuromorphic computing is several steps removed from how neurons actually work. We’re still using conventional digital computation … Read More


Pokemon Go’s Roots in Early Human Behavior

Pokemon Go’s Roots in Early Human Behavior
by Tom Simon on 08-11-2016 at 4:00 pm

The popularity of Pokemon Go is really no mystery – it has its roots in our hunter gatherer evolution. Pokemon Go was an App that was just waiting to happen. It’s a perfect storm. It is the scavenger hunt brought into the modern age. But more importantly it recapitulates what our ancestors had to do to survive. It taps primal and… Read More


The Higgs Boson and Machine Learning

The Higgs Boson and Machine Learning
by Bernard Murphy on 08-11-2016 at 7:00 am

Technology in and around the LHC can sometimes be a useful exemplar for how technologies may evolve in the more mundane world of IoT devices, clouds and intelligent systems. I wrote recently on how LHC teams manage Big Data; here I want to look at how they use machine learning to study and reduce that data.

The reason high-energy physics… Read More


What’s the Biggest Number?

What’s the Biggest Number?
by Bernard Murphy on 08-09-2016 at 7:00 am

Time for a little fun again. Most of us played this game when we were kids. It fairly quickly degenerates into “infinity plus one” or the even more preemptive “whatever you say next plus one”. But if you’re not allowed to use infinity and you have to name the number and demonstrate how you get to it, is this still interesting? For mathematicians… Read More