Brains, Bots and Bodies

The Emerging Technology workshop at The Singularity Summit was a blast to host. We had a standing room only crowd of 150+, and I had the opportunity to present to and meet tons of interesting people. Thanks to everyone who presented and attended for an awesome day for SciVestor!
I presented the following preso [...]

I’m sitting back stage today at The Singularity Summit, enjoying the presentations and doing my best to stay out of the way. My chief responsibility (self assigned) is to tweet and twine the event has it happens. I’ve not used these two tools in conjunction before, but I am finding that they have [...]

If there is one thing we have come to expect for society these days, its volatility. The ups and downs of the financial markets mirror the gyrations of corporate strategy that in turn are reflected in the uncertainty of our country, careers, even ourselves.
We’d all like to have a “rock”, a center of calm in [...]

At the recent National Instruments NI Week event, SciVestor caught up with Dr. Sam Kherat, manager of the Pittsburgh Automation Center for Caterpillar. Dr. Kherat talks about CATs vision of autonomous heavy vehicles, their focus on sensing technologies, and their partnership with NI.

Singularity University has been a big fan of “Living in the Simulation” fiction over the years. The original Matrix makes our Top 10 movies list - while the sequels disappointed. Of course, a substantial amount of discourse around this concept has made it’s way into the scientific community - notably in discussions of [...]

SciVestor offers a First Look program for important industry research.  This program allows subscribers to obtain access to our findings approximately one week before they are released for general sale on the SciVestor website.  Early access to this research could provide critical insight to businesses hoping to obtain first mover advantage in the Semantic Web [...]

In the first quarter of 2008, SciVestor will be publishing a series of research reports focused on understanding business and investor strategies for catching the Semantic Web wave.
This research covers the following topics:

Semantic Web Technologies Roadmap
Is SemWeb a Platform or Application Play?
Industry Challenges for Sem Web startups
Money Map – Who is backing whom [...]

SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis was featured in a recent Infoworld article: Semantic Web Takes a Big Leap Forward:
The potential of the Semantic Web cannot be underestimated. By scanning the Web on behalf of users, even Google’s ad-based business model could be impacted, an analyst said.
With the Semantic Web’s ability to hone in [...]

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, SIAI benefactor and Principal of Clarium Capital, took the stage at the Singularity Summit Sunday and gave a great talk about considering when and how to lay down bets on The Singularity. His basic premise was that along the bell curve of plausible outcomes, the most likely scenarios eventually migrate [...]

Hillis proposes a startup and a set of services that will give rise to software agents that automate many functions now performed manually in front of a Web browser…
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching - New York Times