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What’s Your Breakthrough Idea? Let’s Talk About How to Change the World on...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an investor, a researcher, a corporate executive, a journalist, or a patent attorney, you’ve heard it: an idea that will supposedly...
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How Seattle Companies and Innovators Can Change the World: Come Find Out on...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang There’s no crying in baseball—or in innovation. Yet I’ve been hearing a fair bit of lamenting around town about how Seattle startups or venture capitalists are not...
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Don’t Listen To Your Critics, VCs Are Not Enough, and Other Lessons from...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang This week, I’ve learned a lot about game-changing ideas and how to think about making them work. Like anything meaningful, some of the lessons will take more time...
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Creating a Virtual 3-D World: Inside PhotoCity from UW and Cornell
View the Slideshow Rachel Tompa [Updated 3:30 pm, 4/23/10. See below] Zoran Popovic, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, is constructing 3-D virtual recreations of real life. First...
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Rodney Brooks, Founder of iRobot and Heartland Robotics, To Retire From MIT
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang Famed robotics expert Rodney Brooks, the former director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is retiring from academic duties...
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Google Likes Like.com
View the Slideshow Wade Roush Like.com, a four-year-old startup in San Mateo, CA, that created a “visual shopping” site underpinned by sophisticated computer vision and machine learning algorithms,...
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Google’s Street View “Trike” at Faneuil Hall Today: Q&A with Digital Imaging...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang If you’re in the Faneuil Hall area of Boston today, look out for the trike. That would be the Google Street View Trike, a pedicab-like contraption mounted with a...
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LaserMotive Beams Power to “Quadrocopter” UAV, Breaks World Record for...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang A couple of startup companies set a world aviation record last night. But they were pretty low-key about it. As I walked into the Future of Flight Aviation Center...
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Boston Robotics Firms, While Making Big Strides, Could Lose Their Edge to...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang None of this would have happened 10 years ago. Where to begin? Last month, I walked into a room of about a dozen robotics experts and technology startup investors....
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Stipple Gets $2 Million to Help Web Publishers Bring Images Alive
View the Slideshow Wade Roush A San Francisco startup called Stipple has raised $2 million from big-name investors to help make images on the Web more interactive. Specifically, the company wants to...
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Inside Google’s Age of Augmented Humanity, Part 3: Computer Vision Puts a...
View the Slideshow Wade Roush It’s a staple of every film depiction of killer androids since Terminator: the moment when the audience watches through the robot’s eyes as it scans a human face,...
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Affine Systems Raises $5M
View the Slideshow Wade Roush San Francisco-based Affine Systems, which uses computer vision technology to identify the content of online videos and help advertisers match ads with related content,...
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Rodney Brooks at NVCA: Why the World Needs Robots, and What VCs Need to Watch...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang The world needs robots, hopefully more than Mars needs moms. The first part of that was Rodney Brooks’s message in his talk at the annual meeting of the National...
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VideoSurf Catches a $16M Wave
View the Slideshow Wade Roush San Mateo, CA-based VideoSurf said today that it has raised $16 million from Pitango Venture Capital and strategic investors, bringing its total financing to $28 million....
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Affectiva Adds $5.7M to Recognize Emotions
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang Waltham, MA-based Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spinout, said today it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing led by Kantar (WPP) and Myrian Capital. The...
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Qualcomm’s GestureTek Deal Signals New Possibilities for Qualcomm Atheros
View the Slideshow Bruce V. Bigelow Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the San Diego wireless technologies giant, said today it has acquired certain assets related to gesture recognition technology from...
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A Computer That Knows How You Feel? See Roz Picard’s Affectiva Demo at 6×6...
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and behold…the eighth wonder of the world. No, not King Kong, I’m afraid. But how about a computer that can read and interpret...
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Microsoft Research’s Jennifer Chayes: 5 Projects for the Future of Computing
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang When people talk about the future of technology, they tend to mention the same big players (what I might call the four horsemen of the consumer apocalypse): Apple,...
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MIT Spinout Affectiva Gets $12M More from Big Investors to Pursue Big Idea
View the Slideshow Gregory T. Huang Affectiva knows how you feel. And Affectiva feels pretty good today. The Waltham, MA-based tech startup, which also has operations in Santa Clara, CA, has raised...
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Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera
View the Slideshow Wade Roush When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware...
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