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Do We Need New Exam Rules for the Smartglasses Era?
It is definitely happening: students are using smart glasses to cheat on their exams. Anecdotal evidence of this has been reported on Reddit for quite some time: for example, this week and two months ago. It is clearly technically feasible to … Continue reading
Smart Glasses, With Back-End AI as a Key Feature: Diverse Models All Co-Existing For The Foreseeable Future?
Incredible things have been happening in the world of smart glasses, thanks to the AI revolution. Long restricted to costly, niche use cases, they are on the cusp of becoming an everyday gateway to AI – in a good way! … Continue reading
Apple is coming to Durham
Delightful news today: Apple is planning to build a brand new campus here in Durham, spending 1 bln dollars over 10 years, and creating 3,000 highly skilled jobs, in particularly in AI, ML, and software engineering. Exciting news for the … Continue reading
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Shelved Project Ara: Would Have Made a Great Research Project
Google’s project Ara, aimed at creating a smart phone consisting of easily interchanged modules, is officially shelved. Ara should have been a research project, and not a productization attempt. As a product, it was always questionable: it’s hard to figure out what … Continue reading
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Work-Wearables: Next Step in Major Wearable Technology Deployments?
New Zealand Herald has an interesting opinion piece on the promise of wearable tech in work-wearables. The author makes several good points about why work wearables look like a promising area: work wearables have more reasons to be wearable, their … Continue reading
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IoT Spectrum Devices: Unusual Design Choices in Amazon Dash Button
Amazon recently announced that it will be partnering with over 50 additional brands in deploying its Dash buttons, small electronic buttons that can be sprinkled around the house and clicked to order the product a button represents. There are now … Continue reading
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: Does It Affect My Purchasing Decisions?
Coming to the Consumer Electronics Show is like stepping into a geeky adults’ version of a candy shop, except that some of the candy you see won’t be on sale for several months (if it reaches the market at all), … Continue reading
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: First Timer’s Impressions
The legendary and glorious Consumer Electronics Show. A congregation of more than 170,000 people (for comparison, I grew up in a city of only 30,000), in the shiny artificial Las Vegas. A happening that takes over tech pages in all … Continue reading
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Projected Ending of Moore’s Law: Can Engineering Creativity Sustain The Rate Of Progress?
The projections of the ending of the Moore’s Law are nothing new — seemingly, they were being made for many decades. For example, back in 2009 an NSF director Jeannette Wing had the following graph in her ACM MobiCom talk … Continue reading
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New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading
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