Futurist Ray Kurzweil has some ambitious plans for search at Google.
Kurzweil, who joined Google at the end of last year as director of engineering, became famous for creating the first text-to-speech software. He's also been called "the ultimate thinking machine."
Now, he's bringing his ultimate thinking machine to Google, where he's working on a system that can truly understand natural language.
Since I got married I became a sucker for wedding photography. I used to spend many hours searching for a good photographer for hire, and during the process I came across some talented people, like Jose Villa.
I have read this book and would like to share a few secrets with you on how to use knowledge about emotions in website creation and in the promotion of your products and services. To understand the issue better you can watch Don Norman’s video "3 Ways Good Designs Make You Happy" , one more experienced specialist in this field.
Andy Goodwin has enough savvy and experience to know better. He knows what works, what is never going to work and what is always worth trying. Andy is passionately anchored to the idea that making great pictures is a privilege and a pleasure. He is equal parts artist and scientist (with a touch of therapist whenever required). His approach is efficient, while never crowding out the prospect of serendipity, including the purposeful providence only a seasoned, wide-minded photographer can create. Andy makes a point of making people, sets and situations comfortable and even fun… yes, we just said "fun".
Smartphones are amazing. They tell us where we’re going, let us know if it’s going to rain, and even act like personal assistants. Now, a new research project out of the University of Rochester aims to make your phone capable of sensing your emotions just from measuring how you’re speaking — not based on what you’re saying.
This research, titled the Bridge Project, focuses on small changes in the human voice. Rather than using the traditional methodology of self-reporting and monitoring body language, this new method is based on automatic passive emotion detection. This technology can always be listening and monitoring a patient’s emotional state without any work on his or her part — providing a bigger picture on the patient’s entire status.
Today emotional design becomes a very powerful tool in the hands of professional web designers. Following the trend simplification of complex elements modern websites are focused on more emotional expression than on the technicality.
Recently the developers were so passionate about the internal adaptation of the web that they quite lost the visual appearance of websites, making them virtually faceless. Don Norman with his book “Emotional Design” made the first step to open a huge potential of emotion in web design.
What is the difference between a good photograph and an excellent one? First of all, an excellent photo is the one, which conveys not only the visual image, but the emotional environment as well. Photography becomes art once it crosses the borders of pure technology and gains the emotional coloring. A good photographer is the one, who has mastered all the practical techniques of photographing; but in order to become an art photographer one also needs to master the talent of communicating with the audience through his visual works.
When the meaning meets the form and the latter underlines, highlights, and intensifies the meaning, it is called the typography – craft, technique, and art, known to people since the dawn of the history of human civilization culture. Once people noticed that the way the text is written affects the way it is perceived by readers, so they started to design and arrange the types in a particular order, adding decorative elements, backgrounds, and thus introducing the art constituent into seemingly pure technical process of writing words and sentences.
Heart-touching beautiful photographs you never seen before. Photography as a part of art is a photography genre in which the artist makes a photograph of a concept or idea. Usually the conception of the idea precedes the realization of the photography. (wiki)
There are millions of heart-touching beautiful photographs, but how we choose the best one of us, creative photos are invaluable asset for professional designer. However when it comes to finding the right photo; one can easily spend hours searching for it. Beautiful photos to refresh your mind at getting people’s attention as long as you don’t make them too text heavy and you include an extremely creative photos in look-at-me colors and sharpness.
Throughout history, great photographer always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. Photography is an art in itself, that requires a skill and precision as we know, it is one of the most creative art forms to come out of the digital age.
A moving collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous power of loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit. Warning: Some of these will make you weep.
With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking capabilities to Kinect for Windows through a software update. Which means, Kinect will be able to read and react to your facial expressions.
Act surprised? Your avatar will reflect surprised. Smile? So will it. It's part of Microsoft's new SDK for Kinect which will let developers write Kinect apps for Windows. In Microsoft's Kinect for Windows blog, it says...
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian set out to revolutionize the Internet. Then came an even bigger challenge.
We live in a particularly interactive age. Sometimes it seems like you’re hard-pressed to find a thing that isn’t interactive in one respect or another without locking yourself in a closet and sitting among the shoes in the fetal position. If researchers at Keio University in Japan have their way, yet another thing will be pulled into the wide world of interactivity: Plants. Interactive plants, which seem to serve little purpose beyond being interactive, are designed to react to and convey emotions. How? Basically, by turning into puppets.
Welcome to Emojicons, your one-stop plot of internet land for every ლ(╹◡╹ლ), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, ಠ_ಠ, and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ you can possibly imagine. We're here to serve your every textual need, providing a relentless number of ways to refine your chats, tweets, IMs, Facebook posts, YouTube responses, Reddit comments, forum flaming, rage quitting, trolling, and every other type of written discourse. Emoticons, kaomoji, facemarks, and smileys galore!
As Facebook becomes a more powerful influence in our digital lives, researchers are looking into how the social network changes our perception of the lives of friends and family members.
As usual in the December, it’s time for selections of moments that marked the entire year. This is a selection of photographs that summarizes the year 2011 according to BuzzFeed. They are impressive captures in several themes but all very powerful and emotional. The entire collection with 45 pictures with descriptions can be found here.
When people are envisioning their future and that of their company, they often downplay their potential successes to avoid coming off as conceited or pompous.
I am not one of those people.
When I put together my Painted Picture, I see myself swimming in success. My speaking calendar is full, my roster of clients has grown and includes really awesome startups, companies beg me to sit on their boards, heck, even my home life is balanced and amazing.
