Google – Insight Sciences

Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

Posted on December 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

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In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn…

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Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm (vivektek.wordpress.com)
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm (compusciencenet.wordpress.com)
Stephen Wolfram wants to leave Google, Wikipedia in the dust (washingtonpost.com)
Wolfram announces ‘most important’ project: a programming language that models the world (theverge.com)
Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on RPi (innovativepi.wordpress.com)
Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language (developers.slashdot.org)

The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

Posted on December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers
Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com

GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces a…

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From Snowden to Sonos, and Chromecast to connected dogs, the tech year in review (gigaom.com)
The future of TV isn’t TV, it’s broadband (nextlevelofnews.com)
We need Apple to create the iHome in order for the Internet of Things to go mass market (newdigitalculture.net)

Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

Posted on December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by…

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This is big: Amazon’s cloud goes to China (gigaom.com)

Google street view shows dead people

Posted on October 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

You can use Google Street View to see the dead
Jess Zimmerman, grist.org

Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests…

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20 Surreal Images From Google Street View (embargozone.com)
The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings (mashable.com)
Build Your Own Google Street View Using An Android Phone Or DSLR Camera (makeuseof.com)
Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View (gizmodo.com)

Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

Posted on October 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less)
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works is pretty simple: You paste data…

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Netflix open sources its data traffic cop, Suro (Derrick Harris/Gigaom) – #Technology (execdaily.wordpress.com)
Data Science In The Deep End of The Pool (datascienceatl.wordpress.com)
The human factor: Why big data might be more about automation than insights (nextlevelofnews.com)

Sublime Google street view photos

Posted on October 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen.

If you’ve never taken a random walk through Google Street View, the experience can feel like a dream in slow…

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The 34 Most Beautiful Google Street View Sightings (mashable.com)
Build Your Own Google Street View Using An Android Phone Or DSLR Camera (makeuseof.com)
Now Everyone Can Contribute to Google Street View (gizmodo.com)

Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

Posted on September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself.

Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…

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Google Inc.’s Startup, Calico, Snags Big Biotech Names: Ex-Genentech Exec Top Scientist (biospace.com)
Eric Logan: Students raise a Google Glass to good health | news @ Northeastern (northeastern.edu)
Calico enlists a genetics A-Team for its mysterious anti-aging venture (venturebeat.com)
The Slowing Down or End of Aging? (dontmindmedotnet.wordpress.com)

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

Posted on September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital.

In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000…

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Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection (venturebeat.com)
Competitors of Google Glass.. (virtual3dtravelresearch.wordpress.com)
Video Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear ‘Microsoft Glass’ (businessinsider.com)

The data factory is the next industrial revolution

Posted on September 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Sequoia’s Sir Michael Moritz: The ‘data factory’ is the next Industrial Revolution
Jolie O’Dell, venturebeat.com

Early Bird Tickets on Sale

SAN FRANCISCO — Computation power, applications, device and services costs, and storage are experiencing a dramatic upheaval not unlike the Industrial Revolution of centuries past.

All that adds …

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