A few good people
The Prevail Project is looking for a few good people to accelerate the impact of this organization. Moderators: People who can spark conversations in our groups with their own postings, […]
The Prevail Project is looking for a few good people to accelerate the impact of this organization. Moderators: People who can spark conversations in our groups with their own postings, […]
Look, I’m not much of an abstract thinker. In my field—trying to do something about global warming, the worst problem the planet has ever faced—I’ve long since figured out what […]
Google achieved dominance in the search engine market through a simple algorithm, PageRank, that made it easy for people to find information in an increasingly complex and deep internet. I […]
Race Against the Machine, a recent report from two MIT professors, has gathered media attention by laying the blame for the Great Recession and weak recovery on advancing technology, particularly […]
Recommendation agents pay a minor, but increasingly important role in our lives. Whether it’s Amazon’s book recommendations, or Netflix, Pandora Radio, or Google Search, we rely on algorithms and computers […]
Two articles in the business news caught my eye recently, providing very different takes on entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. From Business Insider, Google’s Larry Page Does Exactly the Right Thing: […]
For most of the planet’s population, migration is not an option. Even as sea levels rise and deserts expand, resettling hundreds of millions or billions of refugees is not politically […]
One of the major perks of going to school is getting to see amazing speakers, like Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin is famous for her humane and efficient designs for livestock […]
Games have been on my mind more than usual lately, both because of Jane McGonigal’s new book Reality is Broken, and Bruce Sterling’s review of The Art of Game Design. […]
Innovation is Serious Business. It’s the key to prosperity, national security, health, jobs, you name it, innovation will solve it. But for all the talk that gets thrown around […]