Travel in Southeast Asia
I am somewhat out of touch for awhile due to travel. On Friday 10/14, I traveled to Malibu to participate in a panel at Election 2.016 at Pepperdine University. From there back to Denver to visit with family and then back to San Francisco and on to Hong Kong. Weather in Hong Kong was really […]
Watson, tell me about my doctor and turn down the heat
Jefferson hospital has launched a program with IBM to create cognitive hospital rooms powered by IBM Watson Internet of Things. Dr. Stephen Klasko is President and CEO at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Steve and I both went to Lehigh University and also University of South Florida. We served together on […]
The internet or the Internet?
The Associated Press Stylebook has declared internet and web should be lowercased. Other style guides are also insisting on the downcasing of internet, and you can see the change appearing daily in major media. Vint Cerf, recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet”, and I don’t agree with the transformation. The word internet first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1974. […]
How Dogs Sniff Their World
Since I was a child I knew dogs were quite good at sniffing. As I get older, I get more curious about things. Why dogs are better sniffers is intriguing. The New York Times, for Learning From Dogs as They Sniff Out Their World, interviewed Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, a professor of cognitive science who runs the Dog Cognition […]
Ganging Up to Stop Robocalls
Any unwanted phone calls are annoying, but the most annoying to most of us are the robocalls. “Hi, this is Rachel from cardmember services” is one of many, and they seem to be growing. The government Do No Call list is a waste of time. The robocallers ignore it. I have finally found a way to […]