IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy is an incredible accomplishment. The various domains of the problem are very interesting. It isn’t just a (un)natural language processor, a search engine, or a trivia machine. It is several very complex domains running to together...
Many pundits have said the only reason people were buying Androids was because of AT&T’s terrible network. Is the Verizon iPhone going to kill all Android sales? Are Android buyers really pining for a iPhone but don’t want to deal with AT&T? That...
I received a Nook Color (NC) for Christmas this year. I promptly rooted it to make it a viable Android tablet. I have spent enough time with it to give a good review. I read the live blog when the NC came out and was very disappointed to read how locked down it was....
It turns out getting the Kinect installed on Windows is more difficult than Linux.Here is the link to a discussion about how to install things in the proper order and from the proper places. You install the Kinect driver from the SensorKinect project. Follow the...
Hacking the Kinect is as cool as it sounds. It isn’t hacking in the purest sense. It is more like connecting the Kinect to your computer instead of your XBox 360. You use the open source drivers to control and receive data. The kinds of projects being done with...
