Monthly Archives: January 2009

All About Supercomputers

Recently a friend told me he didn’t know what a supercomputer was. In response to his question, I put together this blog. Ray Kurzweil has said that the computer in your cell phone is about 10,000 more powerful than the ENIAC -the first government computer that filled a room. XGRID in Virginia Tech Quote: With a price of $5.2 million, ... Read More »

The Singularity Institute

Video from the folks at “The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” Keyword: recursively self-improving systems Speakers on the above video include: 1) Eliezer Yudkowsky – SIAI Research Fellow http://yudkowsky.net/ Read More »

2020 Graduation Speech

From http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/11/2020-vision.html Learn more about Karl Fisch at http://www.designshare.com/index.php/articles/2020-vision This is centered around a high school called Arapaho in Colorado, very education oriented. It was written before Obama won the election. 2008 Amazon buys Ebay – prices of everything becomes negotiable 2009 – Google buys Logitech and Shure (Microphones), teacher podcast ALL classes Google purchases Associated Press & ABC/Disney & ... Read More »

Shift Happens

The music is apparently the Kiss or perhaps the Elk Hunt from movie “The Last of the Mohicans”. Profound quotes from the above video. 1. There are more honor students in India, then student in the USA. 2. The top 10 jobs that will be in demand in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. 3. The US is 20th in the ... Read More »