Claude Shannon’s ‘Theseus’
In the early 1950s, Claude Shannon, the Father of Information Theory, worked at Bell Labs and worked in various technologies that ultimately lead to the crea...
In the early 1950s, Claude Shannon, the Father of Information Theory, worked at Bell Labs and worked in various technologies that ultimately lead to the crea...
A best of both worlds: VIM mode for rapid coding, inserting and moving around the text ever since the terminal days using key command shortcuts and Jupyter L...
Quality vs quantity is always a heated discussion in product development. Which one should be the best outcome? The story below of a ceramics teacher, taken ...
Saw an interesting blog post at boingboing.net today: Booting DOS from vinyl. The original blog post is by Bogin, JR - Booting from a vinyl record where the ...
Nintendo is celebrating its 40 year anniversary of Super Mario and 20th anniversary of its original Game and Watch with the latest one Game & Watch: Supe...
Same time 12 years ago PC Magazine stopped its print edition. Tech magazines were as important as the computers during the evolution of personal computing. O...
A great blog post by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak “Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters” on vintage computing website. In a question on why th...
Loved the Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit. It is about the chess, but it is also about life, health, and competition. Pocket News has a nice collection of re...
A step forward in increasing the compatibility between smart home IoT products is going on through the Zigbee Alliance. They just announced the Project Conne...
Emupedia EmuOS is browser-based emulator with the 90’s Windows theme for playing retro games online without needing to install. You can access it at emupedia...
Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff shows an amazing comparison between the original ARM processor that was originally created in 1983 for the Acorn computer with 25 t...
Check out this 1962 video that was created by IBM titled “The Computer and the Mind of Man”. It features Dr. Richard Wesley Hamming from Bell Labs and Prof. ...
Listen to the first ever computer-generated music recorded using Turing Machine, the Marc II, by the British computer scientist Christopher Strachey with the...
Lee Felsenstein is a computer pioneer and living legend. He built the first portable computer, the Osborne 1, and lead the Homebrew Computer Club. Check out ...
Usborne Publishing had popular programming books for kids in the eighties. They would help kids learn the basics of computers and how to program games for th...
Software programming languages are predominantly based on the English language. The non-English part is usually some sort of localization of text and numbers...
Ish is an iOS (iPhone/iPad) app that emulates a complete x86 Alpine Linux operating system along with a package management tool. Your iOS basically can turn ...
Dr Leuat, professor of astronomy at the University of Oslo, took the retro computing by storm with his recent release of a complete IDE for 8-bit and 16-bit ...
Atari, the maker of the original 2600 Video Computer System, is on the roll. They have a Atari Hotels in the making, Atari Token, a blockchain token system b...
In the eighties, we used to having homes computers, such as the Commodore or the BBC Micro, with a keyboard integrated to it. All we had to do is to plug it ...
The US elections, both 2016 and 2020, have demonstrated significant misrepresentations of actual outcomes. The poll predictions were way off. Also, the manag...
Regarded as the earliest horror game, 3D Monster Maze game was first played on the Sinclair ZX81 in 1981. The player is put in a maze with only one exit and ...
Oracle Java team released the historic timeline of Java as part of Java’s 25th anniversary. What I found interesting is that the Java language was first nam...
I was recently reading a 1977 article about the dawn of personal computers and its promises, such as home automation and business applications. That made me ...
Today we are accustomed to interacting with Alexa or Siri using speech recognition technology but do you know it started as early as 1972 with Hearsay I at C...
In 2001, long before cloud storage, open-source, JSON or Markdown formats, and metadata of datasets were a thing, I had this idea of a content-representation...
Found this in my archives. I was 17 years old junior at the American Community School Beirut. In 1991, the class was learning BASIC, which I knew already fro...
There are several shows that I would recommend on vintage computing and the history of video gaming industry: “High Score”, “Silicon Cowboys” and “Halt and C...
Vintage computing resources that I found on the Internet.
Various links to vintage computing books
Bookmarks related to Arabic computing
Bookmarks related to the Altair 8800 Computer
Bookmarks related to the Apple 1 computer
Today October 13 marks Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. Ada is cred...
I believe that we are witnessing a new beginning in enterprise IT. The demand for ARM processors will shape edge computing across data centers and in persona...
My e-book chapter “IT Must Tell Its Story Better to Enable Business Success” as part of “Mighty Guide - 9 Experts on How to Align IT’s Work to Company Strate...
I got featured in Technology Association of Oregon website.
A great accidental find! A signed book of “Hypergrowth” by Adam Osborne himself, the founder of the first commercially successful laptop computer, the Osborn...
I am now a proud owner of the shirt that was worn at the Home Brew Computer Club in the 80s. I first saw the shirt worn and designed by the personal computer...
Check the documentary of the revolutionary Douglas Engelbart who created the computer mouse and “the mother of all demos” in 1968 showcasing all fundamental ...
what can be a great item to frame in my vintage computing office library? A 70-year copy of the first Time magazine cover that features a computer and refere...
Same day in 1977 the home game console Atari 2600 was launched and ultimately revolutionized the game industry. The idea of plugging different game cartridge...
I think we can mark significant evolution of technology through 3 different milestones in which the game Pac-Man was used. For those who don’t know [Pac-Man]...
Many past inventions, such as 17th century mechanical calculator machines or early 20th century computers, suffered from clearly identifying the innovators a...
My dad passed away 2/22/2012. Cancer took him after a long fight. He was a pioneer in journalism and future thinking. He loved the pen and paper. He loved hi...
A big wish for me came true this weekend when I had the honor to present in Palo Alto Silicon Valley to my fellow alumni at the American University of Beirut...
Geeking out on AI, machine learning, computing and medicine, as well as cloud computing and entrepreneurship with fellow professors, doctors, and alumni in S...
It was exciting to moderate two sessions in Seattle, one on cyber security to cover for the original planned presenter, and the other on “IT Transformation a...
Origins of the word “technology” : “technology (n.)
I am a big fan of Steve Jobs but it is important to watch how a mix of ingenuity and arrogance when Steve was young can lead to failed implementations. After...
Same time twenty years ago (year 2000) I was at an accountant office during New Year’s Eve watching over their servers and software to make sure the year 200...
I didn’t have a chance to write this until now, but I want to pay tribute to the late computer engineer Chuck Peddle who passed away on Dec 15 at the age of ...
I once gave up pushing my kids into computer science, but my teenager son Adam insisted to stick with digital art design. I was skeptical at first, maybe bec...
We do a great deal of innovative activities here at Banfield. Like any innovation, some ideas become successful and would scale, while other ideas would get ...
A recent Pew Research study found that majority of US adults answered digital related questions correctly only less than half of the time. Some security rela...
My teenage daughter is enjoying listening to her favorite singer on on a 30yr old vintage cassette (tape) playing Walkman. She finds such 20th century techno...
Sad month for IT publication magazines. After 30 years of publication, the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN) magazine, which first started as Microsoft Sy...
My published article on Natural Language Processing technologies in Startup City Insider Magazine: NLP: Then, Now, and What I Hope is Coming
If past governments could not turn Lebanon into a non-sectarian non-religious-divided society, mobile services apps such as Uber and Airbnb might do that. Le...
One essential characteristic in management and leadership is problem solving. It is coming to see IT professionals saying how they solved customer issues or ...
If you are a fan of 8 bit retro computer games, especially the Commodore 64, combined with a mixture of symphonic orchestra and modern day electronic music s...
I attended Tech Titans sponsored”Intentional Future Making” event at UTD. Speakers were Anne Balsamo, Dean of UTD School ATEC, Gwen Ishmael, Escalent SVP, an...
I think that the remainder of the year and the following year will continue to be an exciting period for IT. Hype of AI has toned down a little, and now we h...
Subsequent geeky announcements can’t get any better these few days. I posted about Raspberry Pi 4.0 release earlier and now a much more exciting news for me ...
The launch of Raspberry Pi 4 today is a big thing in the Maker space, IoT technologies, and low-cost but powerful computing at PC-level. A powerful device fo...
In several forums on digital transformations that I attended in the last two years, I would ask the panelists on whether they are incorporating Generation Z ...
Been thinking that machines must not perfect the human voice. That’s because racial and gender discrimination has hurt our generations for a very long time, ...
Been watching “Halt and Catch Fire” on NetFlix for the second time. It spans the history of computers in the 80s and later the Internet in the 90s through a ...
Sad story on the decline of print books used by students and faculty in their studies or checked out at libraries (over 60% decline). Nowadays digital articl...
When cars were all mechanical and less tech and TVs were black and white with antennas, watching car racing was so memorable. You can’t replay or pause like ...
These days students graduate and become the new interns/young professionals in the workforce. Energy is high and spirits are up. They want to make a differen...
I remember the time when we as students first learned to program on early versions of PCs and terminal machines connected to a mainframe. Word processor soft...
I will write about Microsoft Build conference soon but one important photo that I feel any developer would appreciate is that of the first lines of assembly ...
Lot of social media users tend to publicize their LinkedIn or Coursera course achievements. When we were at college, we would not post on walls that we compl...
The corporate world should seriously embrace Generation Z into their workforce. Those born after 1997 are entering the workforce this year. Their approach in...
I participated in several events around Dallas this month of April, and each one is proving more and more that Dallas is a great hub for innovation. Here is ...
For Dallas Entrepreneurs, soon-to-be, or any of my Dallas contacts, you should check out the following entrepreneurial sources in Dallas. The DEC (Dallas Ent...
Stamping a project as agile does not guarantee a successful execution; flagging a project as a waterfall does not ensure a failed implementation either. For ...
It is my 3rd year volunteering at Lamar Middle School (Lewisville ISD), a nearby school to our house in Texas. I kept accepting the volunteering task of pres...
I am showcasing today AI gadgets to Grade 8 midddle schoolers at Lamar Middle School (Lewisville ISD) next to my house. The students have a career fair event...
I believe that an effective strategy for b2b (business to business) companies to innovate and grow is by powering their talented resources as if they are b2c...
It was a pleasure and honor to represent Thomson Reuters at the panel on “scaling without stagnating” as part of corporate innovation. The event was hosted b...
Sometime between ‘91 and ‘92 I accidentally saw Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall part 2 video on MTV - the scene where school kids turn into .. Loved t...
Thimbleweed Park is an award-winning point-and-click game released in 2017 as a tribute to similar pc and Commodore 64 adventure games in the 80s. It is crea...
A common past/present/future dilemma in the professional space is what I learned from yesterday, which job is available today, and what to learn for tomorrow...
AI Index is an academic/business partnership research lead by Stanford University. The 2018 report was recently released and is made available under Creative...
I presented a 15-minute lightning talk on leveraging AutoML for sentiment analysis.
Nearly everyone around by now has either heard or used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in some form or fashion. Some students are alre...
Nearly everyone around by now has either heard or used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in some form or fashion. Some students are alre...
Various thoughts I felt like posting on different occasions on LinkedIn.
Last Thursday we presented “Applied AI/ML in the Workplace – Geek Food for Thought” at the University of Texas in Austin Computer Science department. Thomson...
Update: Link to the presentation via DropBox Note: you need to download the presentation and turn it into presentation mode to access the videos. Also, chec...
Whenever I ask a bilingual (English + another language) students or professionals working on machine learning or artificial intelligence if they considered d...
Witnessing over 20,000 women in tech attendees at #GHC18, majority of those by pure observation seem to be in their early twenties, hence Generation Z (those...
Roughly six years ago while working at my previous employer, I asked one of the technology leaders, who might have had a bad day, why we don’t have a tech pl...
Cheers to Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, Grace Hopper, who pioneered computer programming with COBOL, and all the women in tech who run code, p...
I am addressing this to starters and professionals in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is part of a talk I plan to do at the Uni...
Technical professionals are under pressure to learn something new for fear of missing out on the latest technologies. Non-technical professionals fear that t...
If the world is round then so as the technology world is round as well. In the late seventies and eighties, the BASIC language and Assembly Language were hot...
Welcome Walden University students and all students to a great new academic year. It is natural and even expected to feel the high adrenaline when starting t...
Busy times ahead for me at Thomson Reuters. Before I talk about that, I am just happy that I managed to find a very convenient way to blog post using Jekyll ...
As part of Thomson Reuters community engagement, my team and I met with Dallas ISD high school students who visited the University of Texas in Dallas campus....
I presented at IDEA 2018 Dallas Data Science conference. At the conference, I demos Google Collab, Google AIY with Raspberry PI, and even ran a basic machine...
My friends, Aamer Charania, Babar Bhatti, and I had a meetup on artificial intelligence and deep learning at Thomson Reuters office in Carrolton Texas. Aamer...
In April of 2001, I was so much into XML and had some innovative ideas of my own. I was working as a software engineer at Knowledgeview. The company was heav...
This is how my life with computers first started.
Woke up at 5am this Saturday morning for some research and work before the family wakes up. While doing some digital clean up on with my old Evernote notes, ...
As part of my Phd dissertation at Walden University, I developed an application that would analyze the sentiments of tweets that include the stock symbols of...