Engineering Capital

12/14/2016

We're often asked about technical insights. Here's Ashmeet Sidana on the answer.

Technical Insights in Startups Some of the best Silicon Valley companies have been started based on a technical insight. noun: If told what, a talented engineer would not know how to build. Technical insights can…

11/09/2016

Great piece on public trust of algorithms and driverless cars.

A review of the research on automation.

11/03/2016

The nails in the coffin of the "hardware system" business model model continue as Microsoft embraces open source hardware.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/microsoft-open-sources-its-next-gen-cloud-hardware-design/

Microsoft today open sourced its next-gen hyperscale cloud hardware design and contributed it to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Microsoft joined the OCP,..

11/02/2016

"Teachers of the future are perhaps likelier to use robots than chalkboards. (Some worry that teachers will be replaced by robots, though scientists assure us this will not happen.) Wall-mounted display boards will be unnecessary for teachers who use technology to interact with students remotely. Creators of such technology understand the power of the past to reassure us about the future. A leading vendor in the e-learning market reveals as much in its name: Blackboard."

Blackboards will endure as symbols of learning long after they’ve disappeared from schools.

10/22/2016

Check out video footage from The Engineering Summit:

Thank you for attending The Engineering Summit 2016. We hope you will join us again in the future. Photos of the summit our available on our page.

10/18/2016

09/19/2016

http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/oracle-buys-palerra/

Congrats to Palerra!

Purchase announced just before OpenWorld conference.