The Concept of Future
It’s very interesting how people are already coming up with ideas on how the future will be. People years, or decades ago, imagined a world with flying cars (which we may now be closer to!). Many TV...
View ArticleLinnaeus University newest award recipient
Welcome aboard! Linnaeus University student Elona Dikam, Professor Arianit Kurti and team members: Professor Christina Mortberg, with students Andreas Koczkas, and Suyesh Amatya are going to create a...
View ArticleMeet IBM’s “Boy And His Atom,” Smallest Movie Ever Made
Read this article about a movie certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest movie ever made. It’s called “A Boy And His Atom,” and the medium of animation is, you guessed it, atoms....
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Getting Started “@ctive Life” – Social Engagement of Senior Citizens Using...
Hi all. Welcome to the first blog post of the project @ctive Life. Let’s start first by giving you all a little background about the project. As humans being a social creature, social interaction is a...
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UC Merced Mobile App Challenge Team Wins $2,500 Scholarship
For the past six months UC Merced Mobile App Challenge teams channeled the fundamentals of innovation and problem solving to create the next best mobile app. On April 26, 2013, eight teams presented...
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The Quantum Supercomputer
Almost all of the headlines today contained Google and NASA’s purchase of the D-Wave Two, a quantum supercomputer. The two organizations partnered to establish the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab...
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The National Weather Service Forecasting Gets an Upgrade!
The US is quite frequently battered by hurricanes and tornadoes. As these disasters cause several billion dollars in damage each year, a better forecasting and storm tracking are necessary in order to...
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A Glimpse on Tech Trends
David Pogue, a personal technology and columnist for the New York Times and a tech correspondent for the CBS News, is one of the most passionate people about technology, and had been featured several...
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The Paper-thin Tablet
How thin can a tablet be? Prior to the invention of tablets, people already talked about having laptops which aren’t as heavy to lug around. After tablets were produced, people talked about having...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013
In my previous post, I talked about the ultra-efficient solar panel which is 50% efficient versus the current solar panel we have today which is only 20% efficient. Moving on from there, there are much...
View ArticleFacebook is a Disaster? No! It’s the Facebook Disaster Message Board!
Yes, yes, don’t we all hate Facebook when our private pictures get leaked out to some hypothetical (even imaginary) creeps who have been trying to peep into our profiles and personal lives but had...
View ArticleNeed help with Ikea furniture assembly? Taskrabbit to the rescue!
Don’t you just hate doing the grocery all by yourself? How about travelling 2 hrs just to pick up a second-hand wardrobe you bought off Craigslist? Or maybe finding yourself having trouble assembling...
View ArticleWill robots become T-shaped or T-erminators?
I regularly read technology blogs. In so doing I get the feeling that robotics is making huge progress currently. Robots seemed always slow and limited in their functionality. Now they are starting to...
View ArticleMachines VS Humans……who’s replacing who?
Since you are reading this on an IBM official blog, I bet you would remember Deep Blue, the amazing chess player ‘trained’ by IBM. And of course, since you are such an IBM-fanatic, you would also know...
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State of the Art “@ctive Life” – Social Engagement of Senior Citizens Using...
Hello and welcome to the second blog post of @ctive Life. By now, we are almost ready with a part on the prototype of the topic about Social Engagement of Senior Citizens using Social Media through...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs creating mobile augmented reality applications
Rahul Sainani (LinkedIn) is an Electronics Engineering student with a passion for developing Smart Applications. Tarun Sainani (LinkedIn) is an Entrepreneur in Knowledge Based Service Systems – Mobile...
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Big Data Use Cases
Big Data Use Cases Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Undergraduate researcher teams win SFSP awards
The teams have each accepted $1,000 to fund their efforts to create smartphone applications. 1) Toco Transducer and Tocodynomometer – with smart phone APP – will be used to help pregnant women in early...
View ArticleBeyond BYOD: “Bring Your Own Cloud”
How many of you share files from your jobs using Dropbox folders or documents using Google Docs or IBM Docs? Should we go beyond the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)? What about the “BYOC: Bring Your Own...
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Business Artifacts, IBM, Data Analytics and the US Visa Processing Time in...
What would US Visa Processing times have in common with IBM and Data Analytics? Well, a lot actually. Before I begin this article, this being my first on the SFSP blog, I would like to thank IBM for...
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