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Launch of Greener Still

Published on 8 Nov 2007 at 11:54 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Biology, Climate, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Green.

Launch of www.greenerstill.com, which is a site focused on keeping our world healthy.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY

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Wolfram Web Resources

Published on 17 Oct 2007 at 1:12 am. No Comments.
Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Mathematics, Research.

I received this brochure from Wolfram Research (Mathematica) describing their web resources.  I am going to lose it… so I will remember it here in my Online Cortex.
wolfram.com
http://www.wolfram.com
Wolfram.com is updated regularly with information on new breakthroughs and developments for Mathematica users and technology enthusiasts around the world.  This site features demonstrations and videos on the [...]

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Diamond Road

Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 1:59 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Social Justice.

I am watching the Discovery Channel and am seeing the documentary titled Diamond Road for the fourth or fifth time.  The diamond entrepreneur Martin Rapaport impresses me every time.  He has been inspired to create a fair trade system for diamonds from war-torn Sierra Leone.  In one of his talks, he points out that if [...]

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Powerset Labs Launches

Published on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:26 am. No Comments.
Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Research, Software, Solutions.

 
Powerset launches Powerset Labs at TechCrunch40.  Powerset is developing a natural language search engine that interprets the meaning of your query to return the results you are looking for.  See their blog here.
I worked with Barney Pell at NASA Ames before he formed Powerset.  I must say that I am really looking forward to this [...]

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Google Lunar X Prize

Published on 14 Sep 2007 at 10:54 am. No Comments.
Filed under Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology, Uncategorized.

 
Google announced yesterday that they are joining with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor the Google Lunar X Prize which offers $30 Million to the first two privately-funded teams that successfully lands and roves a robotic explorer the lunar surface.  This prize, which is the largest private prize ever, is aimed at creating a global private space race [...]

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