Information Processing

Here's some advice I wrote to a former student who is headed into software development. Can anyone add to or improve my comments? 1) sof...

I'm trying to understand how the subprime mortgage mess is going to unwind. Below are links to two recent articles I found useful. 1) WS...

Wow! It's the modularity that is amazing. Swap a bit of DNA and suddenly you have bacteria that can harvest energy from light! (Via GNXP...

From the Times, this story tells a lot about what's happening in Manhattan. My friends there say it's very kid-friendly these days,...

The Times has an article about Jeff Bezos' Mechanical Turk project, which lets machines outsource certain tasks to humans. (The orgina...

Berkeley PhD student Jo Guldi describes how Google Book Search is revolutionizing her historical research. Google Book Search is a relative...

Interesting interview (podcast) with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. On the infrastructure barrier of entry to compete with Google: Q: Ray Ozzie r...

Some photos from Barbados, regrettably taken with my wimpy cellphone camera. The first two are from the beach near Bellairs Research Institu...

I'm off to a workshop on black holes and quantum information. Although I'll have network access you might not hear much from me for ...

We just completed some head to head testing of Robot Genius' web crawl data. We've built a fully automated process that downloads ev...

It's a hedge fund universe: over a trillion dollars under management now by the largest US funds. Thanks to an intrepid correspondent fo...

Here is a little video snippet of Larry Page talking about AI at the recent AAAS meeting. He points out that our genetic information is abo...

Chalmers Johnson interviewed on Radio Open Source, with interesting counter commentary by Thomas Barnett . See here for his views on US-Ch...

The Times reports that it's hard out there for an entrepreneur, especially so in France :-) A related point worth emphasizing is that wh...

An interesting profile of Google founder Sergey Brin, emphasizing his family background. Both Brin and co-founder Larry Page are from Jewis...

Bill Gates is IQ-obsessed. These days you can add Google and a host of hedge funds and startups to Goldman as the main competitors for Bill...

David Swenson, who has achieved average annual returns of 16.3 percent over the last 21 years for Yale's endowment, may be earning a ful...

Social scientist Geert Hofstede of the University of Maastricht has done cross cultural surveys concerning attitudes about egalitarianism, ...

Some interesting Nobel data found here . The author of the study is a professor of evolutionary psychology in the UK. To improve the analysi...

Particle theorist Nick Evans has written a murder mystery novel set at a physics institute. The institute, modeled after Perimeter, seems ...

The Sunday Times on innovation and Silicon Valley. It's all true, although the author is a bit too sanguine for my taste -- he's ign...

I'm back from RSA, and boy am I tired. But, there's no better and faster way to keep tabs on what's happening in information sec...

Sorry for the lack of posts. I'm at RSA right now, the big annual information security conference. This year it's at Moscone center...

Economist's View notes the passing of Anatol Rapoport , a mathematician turned game theorist and political theorist. I first discovered...

Kari Stefansson of deCode genetics interviewed (podcast and stream) on Biotech Nation. He discusses published and unpublished results on g...