I did it! I graduated! After nearly a year of online courses, homework, assignments, and after work projects, culminating in a final Capstone project, I completed my Data Science Certification from John Hopkins University. And the experience was awesome. I…
Can you imagine a manufactured device that can serve as a storage upgrade for your brain? Your memories off-loaded to one or more backup mirrors as needed? No? Well such a device now appears to be in the human trials…
SQL’s been around for a long time. It’s old school. Behemoth’s like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are deeply committed to RDMS systems that are essentially defined by a standard, well-accepted language for access. SQL emerged in the 70s, became ANSI…
You may not have heard of Numenta. Perhaps the name Jeff Hawkins is only slightly familiar. That’s Jeff Hawkins, not to be confused with Stephen Hawking. Hawkins is a true tech pioneer. Founder of Palm, he was instrumental in ushering…
If you’re a muggle, or have slept for most of the past 30 years, you may not know what the Turing Test is. If so, you should stop reading this blog immediately and find out. Try google. So today I…
Are you ready to take the next bold step in evolution? If brain implants today are as far away as laser eye surgery was a couple of decades ago, it could very well be that an implanted cognitive prosthesis is…
The holiday season is now nearly done — with The Epiphany soon upon us, Christmas 2013 comes to a close. It’s been a wonderful holiday this year; hope yours was equally joyful. Time to now get back to work ……
The puppet show these past few weeks — the U.S. government shutdown/debt-limit drama playing on all channels — seems to have more of us than ever buying into the Us v. Them meme. Us v. Them has been around for…
Yeah, just go ahead and mindtweet me. Telepath me that thought, would you? Not now, I’m telephathing! Wasn’t it Orson Scott Card’s sequel to Ender’s Game (Speaker for the Dead) that featured a matured Ender Wiggin with a technology-based telepathic…
I took a fiction writing course once during a hazy undergrad phase. One memorable story I recall, written by a classmate, featured a character named Awesome. That was before awesome was awesome. The character Awesome was ironically named. But the…
