Interview
Wikipedia and Wikia
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, dreamt about a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. In 2001, he founded Wikipedia, making that dream a reality. Today, Wikipedia is the seventh most visited website in the world. There are 500 million unique visitors every month visiting the site from every country in the world. Wikipedia contains nearly 5 million articles, that is being added to at the rate of 750 articles every day. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is...
BioForum Fireside Chat with Robert Nelsen
The lunchtime plenary session at the Bio Investor Forum in San Francisco featured a fireside chat with BioTech investor Robert Nelsen. Nelsen described himself as a self-motivated investor who started his investment in projects at age 11. His key strategy today and main personal belief on investing is that science and technology matters, and that basic research is key. His premised was explained in his love the Scientific American which has a section showing the understanding and ideas in science 10, 20 and 50 years ago. The results...
Architects bring 3D printing to the outside world
August 2015, Siggraph – Two panelists came from Amsterdam to attend Siggraph 2015 and at the Lenovo’s panel share discussion about their new project. Tim Geurtjens and Gijs Van Der Velden are co-founders of MX3D, a company researching and developing groundbreaking robotic 3D printing technology. They developed 3D large scale printers that allowed printing large structures and different materials including plastic, stainless steel and aluminum. Tim and Gijs recently came up with an ambitious plan to build a steel bridge over the...
Cinema before and VR today
August 2015, Siggraph - Chris Edwards is the Founder and CEO of The Third Floor, the world’s leading pre-visualization studio services up to 40 major studio feature films each year. He is also Co-Founder/CEO of The VR Company. In addition to the two companies, he has extended his qualifications into the content area. Over the last 10 years he has been building a massive database of 3D assets, and servicing the world’s top Directors. He began his career in digital cinematography at Disney Studio and then he worked for George Lucas at...
Filmmaking for VR
August 2015, Siggraph - David Karlak, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, sees VR as an extension of the dreams that we have always had. He predicts that beyond VR, there will be additional technologies that will give us more immersive experiences. These experiences will include characteristics and senses from the physical world, such as smell. The opinion of the panel was that VR is not a necessity to be pushing innovation, but it is instead a wish fulfilling technology. For now, access to VR is not affordable to 99% of the world,...
National Association of Broadcasters
- Joel Oxley to Receive the 2026 NAB National Radio Award
- NAB Congratulates Danielle Thumann Severs on FCC Nomination
- NAB Applauds FCC Decision to Eliminate Outdated National TV Ownership Cap
- NAB Joins Global Coalition to Protect Radio’s Place in the Connected Car
- 2026 NAB Marconi Radio Award Finalists Announced
NVIDIA
- GPU-Accelerated Clustering for Financial Instruments at Scale
- Maximizing AI Factory Performance per Watt with NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS
- Where Security Fits in an AI Agent Stack
- NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents
- How Generative Recommenders Are Redefining RecSys at Scale