In the late 1970s the space shuttle programme at NASA was completed. NASA, an organisation that had seen much of its funding disappear in the post-lunar landing world, badly needed the shuttle, if not for the technical advantages it would bring (and they were supposed to be many), for the economic ones. The idea of […]
Back in March I mentioned Google Techtalks (now split into multiple series, engEDU, authors@google etc.). Well, back then I watched a video about how a team was using technology to restore an Archimedes Palimsest, an old parchment with some of the great mathematician’s writings that had been overwritten several times throughout the previous two millenia. […]
Πριν από μερικά χρόνια, διάβασα ένα άρθρο στο BBC γραμμένο από τον Aubrey de Grey, ερευνητή στο Cambridge, ο οποίος ούτε λίγο ούτε πολύ ισχυριζόταν πως “πιστεύει πως το πρώτο άτομο που θα ζήσει μέχρι τα 1000 ίσως να είναι ήδη 60 σήμερα”. Οι δηλώσεις του τότε προκάλεσαν αντιδράσεις σε μεγάλο μέρος της επιστημονικής κοινότητας […]
Στις 18 Μαΐου και για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία, ένα ρομπότ-χειρούργος πραγματοποίησε επέμβαση καρδιάς από ‘απόσταση’ εντελώς αυτόνομα σε ένα νοσοκομείο του Μιλάνου στην Ιταλία. Τι σημαίνει αυτό;
Just days after my article on Petroleum I found a Google Techtalk by Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and a renowned venture capitalist, who talks on the matter. I am embedding the video from his talk below. Click on the ‘play’ button to view it or go to the respective Google […]
I’ve written before about academic/technical/educational video content online, (MURL, Google Techtalks). Here’s some more. There are several interesting lectures by prominent figures from the industry, academia and research in a series of videos by the Computer History Museum available on Google Video. Some are more technical than others, but many cover well-known products, technologies and […]
It must have been four months ago, during a trip of mine to the UK when everything suddenly started hinting at an interesting development: 2006 seemed like the year when megacorp. became vocal about ecology, energy consumption etc. Huge advertising posters at LHR, advising about fuel, electricity conservation etc. ‘Green’ products in industry sectors that […]