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SXSW 2013: The Highlights

Justin Davis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:00:03 +0000

South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]

SXSWedu: Modern Day Edison Thinks We Need Software Yodas

Ryan Hill — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:30:05 +0000

As the SXSW behemoth slowly awakened, Bill Gates gave the final keynote at SXSWedu. The host introduced Gates as a “modern day Edison,” an apt comparison in more ways than one, but if philanthropy redeems, perhaps we should forgive him. Gates described the explosion in computing power and the implosion in cost, telling an anecdote […]

When Did Geeks Get Cool?

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:18:33 +0000

I have this friend Erez. Erez is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty at Google, and has presented his ngram reader for Google Books at TEDxBoston. Erez is a diverse sort — he’s also worked on genome sequencing, an insole to help seniors keep their balance, and published a ground-breaking paper […]

“Evil” Bill Gates Occupied, Saves Hundreds Of Thousands From HIV

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:01:14 +0000

Google “Bill Gates is Evil” and you get a whole lot of results going over all the horrible, terrible things that Gates has done. People don’t like his business practices, his public persona, or his products. Fine, but I personally think evil is oversimplifying. The concept of “this businessman is BAD and everything he […]