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Music in 1967 Part 1 - Albums
Music in 1967 Part 1 – Albums
“It was (50) years ago today . . . “ Happy to watch 2016 recede in the rear-view mirror, I looked 50 years further back and thought that if memory serves, 1967 was a pretty good year for music. But did memory serve? If several decades carrying out scientific research into human memory taught me anything, it was that memory provides an unreliable window into the past. So I did some more research.…
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Music in 1967 Part 2 - Songs
Music in 1967 Part 2 – Songs
Otis Redding “And my soul has been psychedelicized” This is the second of two posts that present Spotify playlists of music from 1967. See “Music in 1967 Part 1” for two album-focused playlists. With one exception, each playlist contains a unique set of tracks. The exception is a personal list that pulls a mix out of the 207 tracks that appear on the other playlists. The playlists are…
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Malware attacks ramp up from Black Friday to Christmas
Malware attacks ramp up from Black Friday to Christmas
Credit: Loren Javier/flickr Be careful if you’re shopping online this holiday season. Enigma Software, an online security company, reports that malware infections between Thanksgiving and Christmas increased by 42% from 2013 to 2014 and 82% from 2014 to 2015. The malware attacks usually come disguised as email from a retailer that tells you there was a problem with a recent order or that…
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Hoisting YouTube's Content ID system on its own petard
Hoisting YouTube’s Content ID system on its own petard
A couple of years ago Google introduced its Content ID system to YouTube. Copyright holders upload their content to Content ID and whenever someone uploads a video to YouTube it’s matched against this massive content database. If any segment of the video matches copyrighted content, the copyright holder can block the video from being shown or monetize the video by inserting their own ads. Gamers…
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A brilliant inventor and fighter for equal opportunity
A brilliant inventor and fighter for equal opportunity
Credit: Johns Hopkins University In the early 1960s James West and his colleague Gerhard Sessler invented the electret microphone while they were working together at Bell Labs. The condenser mics that were being used at the time cost hundreds of dollars; an electret mic that would produce the same flat response across a wide frequency range cost pennies to make. Needless to say, the electret mic…
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Hubble and the big blue bubble
Hubble and the big blue bubble
Bubble Nebula. Credit: NASA/YouTube NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope 26 years ago on April 24, 1990. In celebration they decided to give us this birthday present. The image is of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). The bright star inside the blue bubble is a raging inferno that emits a solar wind of hot gases moving at 4 million miles per hour. Contact between the hot expanding gases and the…
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Deep learning, the Oculus Rift and more
Deep learning, the Oculus Rift and more
Credit: Google Recent articles for Forbes Deep learning is a type of AI that makes use of multi-layered artificial neural networks to do amazing things. I was a graduate student when neural networks first hit the world of cognitive science in the 1980s. We were blown away. Everything stopped while we delved into these new computational architectures and figured out how they worked. We thought…
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Twin Danger
Beautiful arrangements, gorgeous vocals and a tenor sax that will melt your walls. If this sounds good to you, check out Twin Danger. The vocalist is Vanessa Bley, the daughter of the brilliant jazz pianist Paul Bley. The saxophonist is Stuart Matthewman who led the band behind Sade and co-wrote some of her most well-known tunes.…
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The demographics of online dating, games that respond to your emotions and more
The demographics of online dating, games that respond to your emotions and more
Credit: kpgolfpro/Pixabay, modified by Kevin Murnane Recent articles for Forbes Who uses online dating services? The answer may surprise you – it turns out everyone does. Many online dating services advertise that they will find the perfect companion for you. What if they’re right about that? Find out one possible consequence in Report Shows More People Of All Ages Are Dating Online, an article…
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Computer writes political speech. Does anyone notice?
Computer writes political speech. Does anyone notice?
(Credit: Humanrobo/wikipedia) Can you tell the difference between a political speech written by a computer program and one written by a speechwriter? Valentin Kassarnig at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has written a computer program that writes political speeches on demand and it does a surprisingly good job. I’ve written an article for Forbes about Kassarnig’s program and why a…
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Jerry Lawson: A video game pioneer
Jerry Lawson: A video game pioneer
Jerry Lawson was a largely self-taught electrical engineer and video game pioneer who was almost forgotten during his lifetime. His father was a longshoreman who loved to read about science; his mother was uncompromising in her insistence that her son get a good education. Lawson moved from the east coast to what is now known as Silicon Valley in the late 1960s and took a job with Fairchild…
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Baseball: Engaging the audience - Part 2
Baseball: Engaging the audience – Part 2
For the past 13 years Major League Baseball (MLB) has seen record growth, reaching revenues in the neighborhood of $9.5 billion in 2015. Nevertheless, every year “Take me out to the ballgame” is sung with an accompaniment of hand wringing over baseball’s perceived failure to attract a younger audience. People have seriously proposed that shaving 10 minutes off the average game will pull in…
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Twenty-six years of hip-hop in a brilliant infographic
Twenty-six years of hip-hop in a brilliant infographic
If all you saw was the image above along with the title – Billboard’s “Hot Rap Songs” Chart (1989-2015) – you’d have no idea what’s waiting at the other end of the link. Hit it and you’ll find that Matthew Daniels at Polygraph has created what may be the best infographic about music ever. Even if you don’t like hip-hop, you should check this out. It’s that good. The heart of the infographic is…
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The toughest bass player on the planet
The toughest bass player on the planet
On February 4th, 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sat down together for the first day of the Yalta Conference where they divided up Germany and reconfigured Eastern Europe at the end of World War 2. The whole world was watching. On that same day, Jane Little made her debut playing bass with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (ASO). She had turned 16 two days…
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Taking a closer look at the confidence eyewitnesses have in the accuracy of their memory
Taking a closer look at the confidence eyewitnesses have in the accuracy of their memory
The release last week of the Netflix documentary Making of a Murderer has generated renewed interest in the issue of rape convictions that are overturned on the basis of subsequent DNA analysis. In most of these cases, the prosecution’s case rested heavily on the victim’s mistaken identification of the defendant as the man who raped her. Identifications of the defendant as the rapist are almost…
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The Sound of Silence The Sound of Silence by Disturbed This post is dedicated to the neon god, Donald Trump. Thanks to Marc Fishman for bringing it to my attention.
Microsoft takes customer support to another level
Microsoft takes customer support to another level
Long wait times. Terrible music and constant reminders about how important your call is while you sit on hold. Listening to people who are hard to understand read from a script. Explaining your problem again and again after being put on hold and getting disconnected. Welcome to the world of customer support. We’ve all been there and done that. And then this happens. I pulled the trigger and…
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