tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19200250333895150372024-03-08T04:17:25.861-08:00Major Benjamin TalmadgeThe Rule of Law and Technology. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-89887260555554500372010-06-28T15:03:00.001-07:002010-06-28T15:03:37.873-07:00TrueBridge Capital Partners<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truebridge_capital_Partners">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truebridge_capital_Partners</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-82416360680839476902010-06-16T07:09:00.001-07:002010-06-16T07:09:00.528-07:00IA Venture Partnershttp://www.iaventurepartners.com/<br />
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VC focused on "big data". . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-40063099282203664982010-06-15T08:56:00.001-07:002010-06-15T08:56:45.431-07:00Afghanistan's Lithium Eurekahttp://green.venturebeat.com/2010/06/14/afghanistans-lithium-eureka-a-big-win-for-china-or-another-bolivia/. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-12394261771173363672010-06-07T06:24:00.000-07:002010-06-07T06:27:56.291-07:00Startup Reading List<b>Web 1.0:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430210788?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1430210788">Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1430210788" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814406394?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0814406394">The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal Success</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0814406394" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306292?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0887306292">Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0887306292" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H2MQBC?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000H2MQBC">Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000H2MQBC" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977898431?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0977898431">The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0977898431" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038534273X?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=038534273X">The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=038534273X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767931556?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0767931556">The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0767931556" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446563048?ie=UTF8&tag=majorbe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446563048">Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=majorbe-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446563048" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-22811706038784317952010-06-07T06:04:00.000-07:002010-06-07T06:08:51.836-07:00GnuBio and David Weitzhttp://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=25481&channel=biomedicine§ion=<br /><br />"At a time when the longtime goal of a $1,000 genome is still just out of reach, a Harvard University physicist is promising an even cheaper price--the ability to sequence a human genome for just $30. David Weitz and his team are adapting microfluidics technology that uses tiny droplets, a strategy developed in his lab, to DNA sequencing. While the researchers have not yet sequenced DNA, they have successfully demonstrated parts of the process and formed a startup, GnuBio, to commercialize the technology. Weitz presented the findings at the Consumer Genomics Conference in Boston last week."<br /><br />RainDance Technology<br />http://www.raindancetechnologies.com/<br /><br />GnuBio<br />http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/05/31/daily32-GnuBio-launches-as-open-source-genome-sequencing-startup.html<br /><br />David Weitz<br />http://www.seas.harvard.edu/weitzlab/. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-83555509375619984782010-05-31T21:26:00.001-07:002010-05-31T21:26:41.310-07:00Siguler Guff & Co. investing in Russian Silicon Valleyhttp://deals.venturebeat.com/2010/05/31/u-s-private-equity-fund-to-invest-250m-in-russian-tech-center/<br /><br />Siguler Guff & Co. is expressing a huge amount of confidence in Russia’s plan to modernize the economy.. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-64640920658622809172010-05-27T19:48:00.001-07:002010-05-27T19:48:45.600-07:00Could Humans Be Infected by 'Computer Viruses?'http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100526095830.htm. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-41169382272548855362010-05-24T06:59:00.000-07:002010-05-24T07:01:36.517-07:00Inference Algorithm and Probabilistic Programming at MITHistorically, building a machine-learning system capable of learning a new task would take a graduate student somewhere between a few weeks and several months, says Daniel Roy, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who along with Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics, led the new research. A handful of new, experimental, probabilistic programming languages — one of which, Church, was developed at MIT — promise to cut that time down to a matter of hours.<br /><br />http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/machine-learning-0518.html. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-9450975578118409912010-05-19T15:22:00.000-07:002010-05-19T15:23:12.350-07:00KarDohttp://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25351/?a=f<br /><br />"The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure an e-mail account, install a virus scanner, or set up access to a virtual private network, says MIT's Dina Katabi, an associate professor at MIT.<br /><br />Crucially, the software just needs to watch an administrator perform this task once before being able to carry out the same job on computers running different software. Businesses spend billions of dollars each year on simple and repetitive IT tasks, according to reports from the analyst groups Forrester and Gartner. KarDo could reduce these costs by as much as 20 percent, Katabi says.<br /><br />In some respects, KarDo resembles software that can be used to record macros--a set sequence of user actions on a computer. But KarDo attempts to learn the goal of each action in the sequence so it can be applied more generally later, says MIT post-graduate Hariharan Rahul, who codeveloped the system. ". . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-24561689001465690402010-05-11T15:32:00.000-07:002010-05-11T15:34:16.732-07:00Russia's Silicon Valleyhttp://www.technologyreview.com/business/25009/?a=f. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-27302857850795606422010-05-10T13:51:00.000-07:002010-05-10T13:53:32.940-07:00Marketcetera<a href="http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/marketcetera">http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/marketcetera</a><br /><br />"Marketcetera Platform allows you to build automated trading systems for equities, equity options and currencies, to maximize the effectiveness of your traders and developers. Trade opportunities disappear in milliseconds. Equity options data feeds now reach 1 million messages per second. "<br /><br />Homepage: <a href="http://www.marketcetera.com/site/">http://www.marketcetera.com/site/</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-42588073964543658682010-05-10T13:49:00.000-07:002010-06-15T08:59:29.281-07:00Structured Data Start UpsData Marketplace <a href="http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/data-marketplace"></a><br />
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Data Market <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/datamarket">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/datamarket</a><br />
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Factual<br />
<a href="http://searchengineland.com/factual-parting-the-curtains-of-the-invisible-web-27608">http://searchengineland.com/factual-parting-the-curtains-of-the-invisible-web-27608</a><br />
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InfoChimps<a href="http://blog.infochimps.org/"><br />
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http://www.crunchbase.com/tag/structured-data</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-75201919516246645142009-09-07T06:58:00.000-07:002009-09-07T07:01:41.339-07:00Plasmobot: the slime mold robot<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.100-plasmobot-the-slime-mould-robot.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=robots">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.100-plasmobot-the-slime-mould-robot.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=robots</a><br /><br />"In recent years, single-celled organisms have been used to control six-legged robots, but Andrew Adamatzky at UWE wants to go one step further by making a complete "robot" out of a plasmodium slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, a commonly occurring mould that moves towards food sources such as bacteria and fungi, and shies away from light."<br /><br /><br />Andrew Adamatzky homepage: <br /><a href="http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/">http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-5939859721512221162009-08-08T19:31:00.000-07:002009-08-08T19:37:01.070-07:00Credit Derivatives: Russia safer investment than California<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aypQny1ySDjU">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aypQny1ySDjU</a><br /><br />“This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago,” said Dmitry Sentchoukov, an emerging-market credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. “Now it’s clear emerging economies are going to outperform the Group of Seven in growth, and that makes investors comfortable with the idea that developing countries can be priced richer than developed.” <br /><br /><br />"Credit-default swap prices from Turkey to Indonesia are falling as bonds rise amid signs that their economies are recovering faster than developed nations.". . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-55102459850494453112009-08-03T07:33:00.000-07:002009-08-03T07:34:15.098-07:00International Joint Conference for Artificial IntelligenceThe AI State of the Union<br /><a href=" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17518-smart-machines-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=robots"><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17518-smart-machines-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=robots</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-37704292177626389022009-07-10T07:56:00.000-07:002009-07-10T08:06:03.674-07:00Buehler, Zisserman, Everingham Computer Learns Sign Language"Once the team were confident the computer could identify different signs in this way, they exposed it to around 10 hours of TV footage that was both signed and subtitled. They tasked the software with learning the signs for a mixture of 210 nouns and adjectives that appeared multiple times during the footage."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17431-computer-learns-sign-language-by-watching-tv.html">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17431-computer-learns-sign-language-by-watching-tv.html</a><br /><br />Patrick Buehler:<br /><a href="http://patrick.buehler.googlepages.com/home">http://patrick.buehler.googlepages.com/home</a><br /><br />Andrew Zisserman:<br /><a href="http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~az/">http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~az/</a><br /><br />Mark Everingham:<br /><a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/me/">http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/me/</a><br /><br />"We propose a framework based on multiple instance<br />learning which can learn a large number of British Sign<br />Language signs from TV broadcasts. We achieve very<br />promising results even under these weak and noisy conditions<br />by using a state-of-the-art upper-body tracker, descriptors<br />of the hands that properly model the case of touching<br />hands, and a plentiful supply of data. A similar method<br />could be applied to a variety of fields where weak supervision<br />is available, such as learning gestures and actions."<br /><br /><a title="View Learning Sign Language by Watching Tv on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/17257372/Learning-Sign-Language-by-Watching-Tv" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Learning Sign Language by Watching Tv</a> <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="doc_560480339408532" name="doc_560480339408532" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" align="middle" height="500" width="100%" > <param name="movie" value="http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17257372&access_key=key-9kcpo62mrndq18fvp4v&page=1&version=1&viewMode="> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="play" value="true"> <param name="loop" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="showall"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="devicefont" value="false"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="menu" value="true"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="salign" value=""> <embed src="http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17257372&access_key=key-9kcpo62mrndq18fvp4v&page=1&version=1&viewMode=" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="true" loop="true" scale="showall" wmode="opaque" devicefont="false" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="doc_560480339408532_object" menu="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" salign="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="500" width="100%"></embed> </object>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-82477406049339562022009-07-10T07:51:00.000-07:002009-07-10T07:55:48.789-07:00Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted With Public Information"Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706171509.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706171509.htm</a><br /><br />More info from CMU: <a href="http://blogs.heinz.cmu.edu/ssnstudy/">http://blogs.heinz.cmu.edu/ssnstudy/</a><br /><br />Ralph Gross:<br /><a href="http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=742">http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=742</a><br /><br />Alessandro Acquisti:<br /><a href="http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/">http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-68407108250999120802009-06-24T21:15:00.000-07:002009-08-11T19:35:41.500-07:00Machine Learning and Trading: Fina TechnologiesCompany applies machine learning to quantitative trading. It is a spin-off of Gene Network Sciences (GNS) of Cambridge, Mass. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.finatechnologies.com/about.html">http://www.finatechnologies.com/about.html</a><br /><br />CEO is Joshua Holden<br /><br />"... trading expertise covers US Government Bonds and Options, US Agency Debt, FX spot and forwards, and US$ Derivatives (Swaps and Volatility). He has held desk-head positions at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and most recently Countrywide Capital Markets. At every stop, he has focused on applying cutting-edge technology to the problems of price & model discovery, execution, and risk-management. Josh graduated MIT in 1993 with both a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering."<br /><br />Investors include Reed Elsevier Ventures; spinoff from Gene Network Sciences,<br /><br />An article by Joshua Holden appears in Forbes, "Why Computers Can't--Yet--Beat The Market"<br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/fina-financial-markets-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-joshua-holden_print.html">http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/fina-financial-markets-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-joshua-holden_print.html</a><br /><br />"Training a financial trading system to deliver the single best model given the data will most often lead to models that fit the past at the expense of predicting the future. What are needed are systems that are flexible, adapt to changing circumstances and are, at their core, probabilistic rather than deterministic. By having distributions of possible models for the state of the world, we can balance the competing desires for certainty and flexibility. By retraining the models automatically when results begin to drift relative to expectations, we can achieve some of the adaptability that humans exhibit in the face of shifts. The path to beating the markets lies in building systems that understand, but do not emulate, the persistent biases in human nature."<br /><br />"If our goal is to build intelligent systems to beat the markets, we cannot simply ignore irrationality. As Keynes famously remarked, "the markets can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent." Longer, too, than can an AI trading system."<br /><br />In Forbes, "Man vs. Machine on Wall Street" <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/22/supercomputers-biology-quants-biz-wall-cx_mh_1124quants_print.html">http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/22/supercomputers-biology-quants-biz-wall-cx_mh_1124quants_print.html</a><br /><br />Origin of the applying machine learning to finance: "The idea comes out of systems, or network, biology. Genes and proteins interconnect in a complex web. By drawing these connections, companies hope to invent better drugs. Merck in particular has put technology similar to that used by GNS at the center of its approach.<br /><br />This computerized approach to biology attracted investors who were, in some cases, quants. Two years ago, Hill was having drinks at an upscale Manhattan bar with an investor and a GNS board member named Thomas Paul, then chief investment officer for Fortress Investment Group. For years, they'd been toying with the idea of using GNS' technology to trade stocks. That night, for some reason, the idea finally stuck.<br /><br />Paul graduated from MIT in 1993 with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering and computer science, and, like many of his peers, went to Wall Street, working first at Goldman Sachs and then at Deutsche Bank before starting an $800 million fund at Fortress.<br /><br />He was prepared for the odd world of quants, he said, by playing on the MIT blackjack team--a different version of the team portrayed in the movie 21, in which a group of students figured out that with investor backing, they could consistently beat the house in Las Vegas by counting cards."<br /><br />Founder of GNS and Fina is Colin Hill: "Colin Hill brings years of hands-on scientific experience to his role, with expertise in the areas of computational physics and systems biology. Hill is a frequent speaker at international scientific and industry conferences and has appeared in numerous publications and television segments including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Morning Call, Nature, Forbes, Wired, and the Economist. He also serves as a board member of AesRx, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of a new treatment for sickle cell disease (<a href="http://www.aesrx.com">http://www.aesrx.com</a>). In 2004, Hill was named to MIT Technology Review's TR100 list of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and earned master's degrees in physics from McGill University and Cornell University.". . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-25780610089924838502009-06-18T13:21:00.000-07:002009-06-18T13:31:02.315-07:00Hedge Fund Startups<a title="View Hedge Fund Startups on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/16561870/Hedge-Fund-Startups" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Hedge Fund Startups</a> <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="doc_50390985393462" name="doc_50390985393462" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" align="middle" height="500" width="100%" > <param name="movie" value="http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=16561870&access_key=key-v06y37eil5ct3eq3ss3&page=1&version=1&viewMode="> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="play" value="true"> <param name="loop" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="showall"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="devicefont" value="false"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="menu" value="true"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="salign" value=""> <embed src="http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=16561870&access_key=key-v06y37eil5ct3eq3ss3&page=1&version=1&viewMode=" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="true" loop="true" scale="showall" wmode="opaque" devicefont="false" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="doc_50390985393462_object" menu="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" salign="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="500" width="100%"></embed> </object><br /><br />The excel spreadsheet is available here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16561645/Hedge-Fund-Startup-Investments. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-82147748082049254602009-05-23T21:19:00.000-07:002009-05-23T21:29:05.873-07:00Robot Scientist; Ross King, Adam, & "Automation of Science"Robot achieves scientific first <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2b97d9a-1f96-11de-a7a5-00144feabdc0.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2b97d9a-1f96-11de-a7a5-00144feabdc0.html</a><br />"A laboratory robot called Adam has been hailed as the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.<br /><br />Adam formed a hypothesis on the genetics of bakers’ yeast and carried out experiments to test its predictions, without intervention from its makers at Aberystwyth University. <br /><br />The result was a series of “simple but useful” discoveries, confirmed by human scientists, about the gene coding for yeast enzymes. The research is published in the journal Science.<br /><br />Professor Ross King, the chief creator of Adam, said robots would not supplant human researchers but make their work more productive and interesting."<br /><br />The Paper, "Automation of Science":<br />"The Automation of Science<br />Ross D. King,1* Jem Rowland,1 Stephen G. Oliver,2 Michael Young,3 Wayne Aubrey,1 Emma Byrne,1 Maria Liakata,1 Magdalena Markham,1 Pinar Pir,2 Larisa N. Soldatova,1 Andrew Sparkes,1 Kenneth E. Whelan,1 Amanda Clare1<br /><br />The basis of science is the hypothetico-deductive method and the recording of experiments in sufficient detail to enable reproducibility. We report the development of Robot Scientist "Adam," which advances the automation of both. Adam has autonomously generated functional genomics hypotheses about the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and experimentally tested these hypotheses by using laboratory automation. We have confirmed Adam's conclusions through manual experiments. To describe Adam's research, we have developed an ontology and logical language. The resulting formalization involves over 10,000 different research units in a nested treelike structure, 10 levels deep, that relates the 6.6 million biomass measurements to their logical description. This formalization describes how a machine contributed to scientific knowledge."<a href=" http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5923/85"><br />http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5923/85</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Robot Scientist Website: <a href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/robotsci/intro/">http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/robotsci/intro/</a><br /><br />"The Robot Scientist is perhaps the first physical implementation of the task of Scientific Discovery in a microbiology laboratory. It represents the merging of increasingly automated and remotely controllable laboratory equipment and knowledge discovery techniques from Artificial Intelligence.<br />The robot in our lab<br /><br />Automation of laboratory equipment (the "Robot" of Robot Scientist) has revolutionised laboratory practice by removing the "drudgery" of constructing many wet lab experiments by hand, allowing an increase in both the scope and scale of potential experiments. Most lab robots only require a simple description of the various chemical/ biological entities to be used in the experiments, along with their required volumes and where these entities are stored. Automation has also given rise to significantly increased productivity and a concomitant increase in the production of results and data requiring interpretation, giving rise to an "interpretation bottleneck" where the process of understanding the results is lagging behind the production of results.<br /><br />The research fields of Computational Scientific Discovery and Bioinformatics have emerged in part as a response to this bottleneck. Both disciplines use computational approaches from Statistics and Machine Learning to provide an "automated understanding" of the experimental results.<br /><br />It has become typical practice in Bioinformatics to separate the data collection or experimentation process and the understanding process, where large numbers of experiments are conducted and then specially designed data mining tools are used to identify correlations in the data that might represent hitherto undiscovered scientific knowledge.<br /><br />This knowledge will initially correspond to the goals of the scientific task, but increasingly the internet repositories that are often constructed to store the data have become the focus of less directed scientific study, where "hidden" knowledge not originally anticipated by the goals of the scientific task may be found. However, this "scrapyard" approach is partly a result of overexperimentation where many unnecessary experiments were conducted along with the potentially informative ones.<br />PC and Sciclone<br /><br />The Robot Scientist makes use of an iterative approach to experimentation, where knowledge aquired from a previous iteration is used to guide the next experimentation step. This is a process known as Active Learning, where the learner can plan its own agenda, i.e. decide how best to improve its knowledge base and how to go about acquiring this information. The Robot Scientist uses the laboratory robot to execute the experiment(s) selected as most informative; has a plate reader to analyse the experiments, generating data corresponding to the scientific observations; uses abductive logic programming to generate valid hypotheses that explain the observations; and uses these hypotheses to determine the next most informative experiment. At the beginning of any investigation, the Robot Scientist has not discovered any information, therefore all possible hypotheses are equally valid. As the directed discovery process continues, each new observation (or experiment/interpretation cycle) will invalidate some of the hypotheses, thereby excluding incorrect discoveries. The experiment selection process aims to choose the experiment most likely to refute the most hypotheses. This iterative process allows irrelevant experiments to be avoided, potentially saving both laboratory time and the cost of using unnecessary reagents and biological materials."<br /><br />Ross King CV:<br /><a href="http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.aber.ac.uk%2Frdk%2Fcv.pdf&images=yes">http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/pdf2html.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.aber.ac.uk%2Frdk%2Fcv.pdf&images=yes</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-24104018782907558192009-05-18T10:36:00.000-07:002009-05-18T10:41:16.300-07:00Machine controls Bacteria : Sylvain MartelResearchers in Canada have created a solar-powered micro-machine that is no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence. The tiny machine can carry out basic sensing tasks and can indirectly control the movement of a swarm of bacteria in the same Petri dish.<br /><br />Sylvain Martel, Director of the NanoRobotics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, previously showed a way to control bacteria attached to microbeads using an MRI machine. His new micro-machine, which measure 300x300 microns and carry tiny solar panels, will be presented this week at ICRA '09 in Japan.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23533/">http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23533/</a><br /><br />Sylvain Martel website<br />http://www.polymtl.ca/recherche/rc/en/professeurs/details.php?NoProf=122<br /><br />Sylvain Martel Nanorobotics Lab<br /><a href="http://www.nano.polymtl.ca/">http://www.nano.polymtl.ca/</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-25413910493869386962009-05-12T15:50:00.000-07:002009-05-13T08:39:28.243-07:00Sean Gourley: Mathematician of WarHow <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sean Gourley</span> <span style="font-weight:bold;">predicts war</span>: <br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/physicists-fool-proof-war-forumla-just-add-media-accounts/">http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/physicists-fool-proof-war-forumla-just-add-media-accounts/</a><br /><br />Sean Gourley predicting war at TED: <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html"><br />http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html</a><br /><br />The Mother (Nature) of All Wars?<br />Modern Wars, Global Terrorism, and Complexity Science<br />Sean Gourley in the American Physical Society: <a href="http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/backpage.cfm"><br />http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/backpage.cfm</a><br /><br />Sean Gourley on LinkedIn:<a href=" http://www.linkedin.com/in/sgourley"><br />http://www.linkedin.com/in/sgourley</a><br /><br />A critique by Drew Conway:<a href="http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=577"><br />http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=577</a><br /><br />Sean Gourley also has a startup predictor, <span style="font-weight:bold;">YouNoodle</span><br /><a href="http://younoodle.com/static/about">http://younoodle.com/static/about</a><br /><br />Sean Gourley CV from <a href="http://younoodle.com/people/sean_gourley">http://younoodle.com/people/sean_gourley</a><br /><br />New Zealander, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Rhodes Scholar</span> at Oxford University, PhD in Physics specializing in 'networks and complexity', just finished a research fellowship at Oxford in the quantitative analysis of war and terrorism.<br />Headline: Scientist<br />Work status: Living The Dream<br />Website: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/sgourley">http://www.twitter.com/sgourley</a><br />Industries: Cleantech, Computing, Financial, Media, Nanotech<br />Skills: Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Management, Product design, Writing<br />Location: Oxford<br />Groups: Global Entrepreneurship Week<br />Visas: Europe, United States and New Zealand/Australia<br />Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects<br />Tags: Artificial Intelligence, complexity, conflict, data analysis, data mining, Strategy, track and field, war<br />Schools: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, University of Oxford<br /><br />Sean Gourley STARTUP<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">YouNoodle</span><br />YouNoodle YouNoodle<br /><br />YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.<br /><br /> * Startup type: Company<br /> * Status: Active<br /> * Stage: Beta<br /><br />Sean Gourley WORK EXPERIENCE<br />Employer: Said Business School Oxford<br />Position: Research Fellow<br />Time period: October 2006 - April 2008<br />Description: Conducted novel research into the quantitative analysis of wars and terrorism<br /><br />Employer: NASA<br />Position: Scientist<br />Time period: June 2004 - January 2005<br />Description: Research into the design of self repairing nanocircuits<br /><br />Sean Gourley EDUCATION<br />University: University of Oxford<br />Time period: 2002 - 2007<br />Degree: Physics: Complex Systems, PhD<br /><br />University: University of Canterbury, Christchurch<br />Time period: 2001 - 2002<br />Degree: Physics: Nanotechnology, MSc<br /><br />PUBLICATIONS<br />Articles: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/20...<br />http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/backpage.cfm<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/oct/24/iraq.intern...<br />http://www.johnbohannon.org/NewFiles/socialscience.pdf<br />INFORMATION<br />Sports: Track and Field, Decathlon, Surfing<br />Awards: Rhodes Scholarship<br />TED fellow 2009. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-27403515183515951032009-05-06T08:04:00.000-07:002009-05-06T08:19:10.968-07:00Shmatikov and Narayanan De-anonymize Flickr and TwitterSee: <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22593/">http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22593/</a><br /><br />Excerpt from article: "Operators of online social networks are increasingly<br />sharing potentially sensitive information about users and<br />their relationships with advertisers, application developers,<br />and data-mining researchers. Privacy is typically protected<br />by anonymization, i.e., removing names, addresses, etc.<br />We present a framework for analyzing privacy and<br />anonymity in social networks and develop a new<br />re-identification algorithm targeting anonymized socialnetwork<br />graphs. To demonstrate its effectiveness on realworld<br />networks, we show that a third of the users who<br />can be verified to have accounts on both Twitter, a popular<br />microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing<br />site, can be re-identified in the anonymous Twitter graph<br />with only a 12% error rate.<br />Our de-anonymization algorithm is based purely on the<br />network topology, does not require creation of a large<br />number of dummy “sybil” nodes, is robust to noise and all<br />existing defenses, and works even when the overlap between<br />the target network and the adversary’s auxiliary information<br />is small."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Vitaly Shmatikov</span> faculty page: <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/index.html">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/index.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Arvind Narayanan</span>'s Live Journal: <a href="http://arvindn.livejournal.com/">http://arvindn.livejournal.com/</a><br /><br />Apparently <span style="font-weight:bold;">Arvind Narayanan</span>'s has a start up, WatchUWant.tv "like Pandora for videos" <a href="http://watchuwant.tv/about/">http://watchuwant.tv/about/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Arvind Narayanan</span>'s research blog: <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~arvindn/">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~arvindn/</a><br /><br />Full text of <span style="font-weight:bold;">De-anonymizing Social Networks</span> below:<br /><br /><a title="View De-Anonymizing Social Networks Shmatikov Narayanan on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021482/DeAnonymizing-Social-Networks-Shmatikov-Narayanan" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; 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font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/upload" style="text-decoration: underline;">Publish at Scribd</a> or <a href="http://www.scribd.com/browse" style="text-decoration: underline;">explore</a> others: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/explore/Research/Internet-Technology" style="text-decoration: underline;">Internet & Technolog</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/explore/Research/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Research</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/tag/twitter" style="text-decoration: underline;">twitter</a> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/tag/anonymity%20on%20internet" style="text-decoration: underline;">anonymity on interne</a> </div>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-40455249260629879042009-05-01T11:53:00.000-07:002009-05-01T11:57:42.561-07:00DigitalGlobe Satellite Service sets IPO terms" NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) - DigitalGlobe Inc (DGI.N: Quote, Profile, Research), a satellite imagery company serving the military and large corporations, set the terms on Wednesday for its planned $250 million initial public offering and scheduled its pricing for mid-May.<br /><br />The Longmont, Colorado-based company plans to sell 14.7 million shares at between $16 and $18 each, in a deal led by underwriters Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, according to a regulatory filing."<br /><br />http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN2941291920090429<br /><br />More detailed: http://www.thestreet.com/print/story/10412717.html. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920025033389515037.post-73099542035890467932009-04-26T20:42:00.000-07:002009-04-26T20:55:23.931-07:00Wolfram Alpha: 6 Things You Need to Know1 - Frederic Lardinois: "It definitely looks like it can live up to the hype - though, because it is so different from traditional search engines, it will definitely not be a "Google killer" <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php</a><br /><br />2 - Wolfram will be giving a sneak preview of Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, April 28: <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/wolfram">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/wolfram</a> <br /><br />Event is being co-hosted by Jonathan Zittrain<br /><br />3 - In Wolfram's own words: "Wolfram|Alpha isn't really a search engine, because we compute the answers, and we discover new truths. If anything, you might call it a platonic search engine, unearthing eternal truths that may never have been written down before..." <br /><br />4 - "Wolfram|Alpha can pop out an answer to pretty much any kind of factual question that you might pose to a scientist, economist, banker, or other kind of expert. The exciting part is that you're not just looking up pages on the web, you're getting new information that's generated by computations working from the known data. Wolfram says the response can be so speedy because, "We've found that, of all the things science can compute, most take a second or less." <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/04/06/stephen-wolfram-talk.html">http://boingboing.net/2009/04/06/stephen-wolfram-talk.html</a><br /><br />5 - Stephen Wolfram created the math software <span style="font-style:italic;">Mathematica</span> ; he was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech; he published a physics paper at 16; he wrote a book of philosophy in which he posits the world is based on cellular automata, <span style="font-style:italic;">A New Kind of Science</span>. It is available online: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html<br /><br />6 - You can get updates by checking out the Wolfram Alpha website and/or Wolfram Alpha Blog<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/">http://www.wolframalpha.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/">http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/</a>. . . by Guilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16091443390205378038noreply@blogger.com0