Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Google is back in the health busi­ness with a mys­te­ri­ous new ini­tia­tive to com­bat death itself. Google’s top exec­u­tives didn’t say much about the biotech ven­ture, called Cal­i­co, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that … Continue reading Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futur­ist and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence guru Ray Kurzweil has just start­ed at Google and gave an inter­view to Sin­gu­lar­i­ty Hub days after start­ing his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into nat­ur­al lan­guage… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil … Continue reading How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil's Goal at Google is to enable … Continue reading Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

Free: Bottom up approaches to innovation

An article by Wired reviews the impact of bottom up, socially driven approaches to innovation. Related articles 74% Of Millenials Don't Believe Their Workplace is Innovative (luckyrobot.com) Why Innovation Programs Are A Total Waste Of Time (ceo.com) Larry Page: Why Companies Fail (ceo.com) The Strategy And Management Secrets Of Google's Larry Page (businessinsider.com)

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta

  Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta - Technology Review. Natural language self writing programming software Related articles An App that Could Stop Traffic - Technology Review - StumbleUpon (chimac.net) You Will Want Google Goggles - Technology Review (studentdigitalus.wordpress.com) Natural Language in Voice Search (googleresearch.blogspot.com) Web Semantics: POETICON: Robots Need Language (wired.com) Automated … Continue reading Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta