Microsoft Power Tools
For the techies that used Windows 95 in 1995, they may recall Microsoft Power Tools. Those were a bunch of freeware tools that did not go in the main operati...
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retro
Return of Steve to Apple
P# 2 of Steve Jobs post
RIP Chuck
I didn’t have a chance to write this until now, but I want to pay tribute to the late computer engineer Chuck Peddle who passed away on Dec 15 at the age of ...
The old tech is new tech!
My teenage daughter is enjoying listening to her favorite singer on on a 30yr old vintage cassette (tape) playing Walkman. She finds such 20th century techno...
8-bit Symphony
If you are a fan of 8 bit retro computer games, especially the Commodore 64, combined with a mixture of symphonic orchestra and modern day electronic music s...
The C64 is back!
Subsequent geeky announcements can’t get any better these few days. I posted about Raspberry Pi 4.0 release earlier and now a much more exciting news for me ...
BASIC First Lines of Code
I will write about Microsoft Build conference soon but one important photo that I feel any developer would appreciate is that of the first lines of assembly ...
Why 22 hour game-playing and listening to 68 episode podcast matters?
Thimbleweed Park is an award-winning point-and-click game released in 2017 as a tribute to similar pc and Commodore 64 adventure games in the 80s. It is crea...
Commodore 64/128 FTP Sites
I found this set of FTP sources for the Commodore 64 and 128 from one old mailing list Commodore FTP Sites Listing Last update 21 Aug 2009 by Cameron Kaiser ...
Retro: Atari & Commodore days 1981-1990
This is how my life with computers first started.
career
My College Days Story
A big wish for me came true this weekend when I had the honor to present in Palo Alto Silicon Valley to my fellow alumni at the American University of Beirut...
Sharing Alumni Experience
Geeking out on AI, machine learning, computing and medicine, as well as cloud computing and entrepreneurship with fellow professors, doctors, and alumni in S...
Steve Jobs in 1986 PBS Entrepreneurs Documentary
I am a big fan of Steve Jobs but it is important to watch how a mix of ingenuity and arrogance when Steve was young can lead to failed implementations. After...
Happy new year , techies and all!
Same time twenty years ago (year 2000) I was at an accountant office during New Year’s Eve watching over their servers and software to make sure the year 200...
Keep Learning
These days students graduate and become the new interns/young professionals in the workforce. Energy is high and spirits are up. They want to make a differen...
b2b companies should hire like b2c
I believe that an effective strategy for b2b (business to business) companies to innovate and grow is by powering their talented resources as if they are b2c...
Dallas Startup Week - Scaling without stagnating for corporate firms’
It was a pleasure and honor to represent Thomson Reuters at the panel on “scaling without stagnating” as part of corporate innovation. The event was hosted b...
Minecraft or Fortnite for your career?
A common past/present/future dilemma in the professional space is what I learned from yesterday, which job is available today, and what to learn for tomorrow...
Give or Take
There are two types of people. Those who give more than they take, and those who take more than they give. The ratio between give and take can vary from zero...
He said “if you want a playground, go find another job”
Roughly six years ago while working at my previous employer, I asked one of the technology leaders, who might have had a bad day, why we don’t have a tech pl...
talent
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” “ Steve Jobs
If you have not read the late Steve Jobs Commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 do check it below. “Stay hungry, stay foolish” he beautifully concludes.
Apple “Think Different” 1997 Ad
“Think Different” Apple 1997 ad campaign that is so relevant for innovators and visionaries not just yesterday but every day today and for ever tomorrow
Proud Dad
I once gave up pushing my kids into computer science, but my teenager son Adam insisted to stick with digital art design. I was skeptical at first, maybe bec...
AI & Games at Grade 8 Career Fair
I am showcasing today AI gadgets to Grade 8 midddle schoolers at Lamar Middle School (Lewisville ISD) next to my house. The students have a career fair event...
Some Winter Thoughts
Various thoughts I felt like posting on different occasions on LinkedIn.
X is not Y and is surely not Z in the Digital Age
Witnessing over 20,000 women in tech attendees at #GHC18, majority of those by pure observation seem to be in their early twenties, hence Generation Z (those...
Women in tech
Cheers to Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, Grace Hopper, who pioneered computer programming with COBOL, and all the women in tech who run code, p...
Don’t Panic. Focus and Learn New Skills
Technical professionals are under pressure to learn something new for fear of missing out on the latest technologies. Non-technical professionals fear that t...
Welcome Walden students to a great new academic year
Welcome Walden University students and all students to a great new academic year. It is natural and even expected to feel the high adrenaline when starting t...
Dallas ISD student event
As part of Thomson Reuters community engagement, my team and I met with Dallas ISD high school students who visited the University of Texas in Dallas campus....
machine learning
NLP Then, Now, and What I Hope is Coming
My published article on Natural Language Processing technologies in Startup City Insider Magazine: NLP: Then, Now, and What I Hope is Coming
AI Index 2018 Report
AI Index is an academic/business partnership research lead by Stanford University. The 2018 report was recently released and is made available under Creative...
Lightning Talk - Course Sentiment Tweets with AutoMl
I presented a 15-minute lightning talk on leveraging AutoML for sentiment analysis.
AutoML - expert AI for the inexperts and businesslike
Nearly everyone around by now has either heard or used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in some form or fashion. Some students are alre...
AI/ML supporting hometowns of international students: what, how and why?
Nearly everyone around by now has either heard or used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in some form or fashion. Some students are alre...
English on non-English NLP and machine learning projects
Whenever I ask a bilingual (English + another language) students or professionals working on machine learning or artificial intelligence if they considered d...
I am I in AI
I am addressing this to starters and professionals in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is part of a talk I plan to do at the Uni...
IDEAS 2018 deck
click here for the deck that I used for the IDEAS - Int’l Data Engineering and Science Association conference in Dallas.
Dallas Meetup on Deep Learning
My friends, Aamer Charania, Babar Bhatti, and I had a meetup on artificial intelligence and deep learning at Thomson Reuters office in Carrolton Texas. Aamer...
diy
DIY risk taking
One essential characteristic in management and leadership is problem solving. It is coming to see IT professionals saying how they solved customer issues or ...
The C64 is back!
Subsequent geeky announcements can’t get any better these few days. I posted about Raspberry Pi 4.0 release earlier and now a much more exciting news for me ...
Raspberry Pi 4
The launch of Raspberry Pi 4 today is a big thing in the Maker space, IoT technologies, and low-cost but powerful computing at PC-level. A powerful device fo...
Sunday notes - blogging on the go
Busy times ahead for me at Thomson Reuters. Before I talk about that, I am just happy that I managed to find a very convenient way to blog post using Jekyll ...
Build with Watson
Last night I played around with IBM Watson Internet of Things and Bluemix cloud services platform using their developer tools. IBM changed their developer p...
Google AIY
Setting up Google Voice AIY was an easy challenge but getting Google Vision AIY took a deep toll on me to successful solder the smaller Raspberry PI Zero W g...
dallas
Tech Titans - Intentional Future Making”
I attended Tech Titans sponsored”Intentional Future Making” event at UTD. Speakers were Anne Balsamo, Dean of UTD School ATEC, Gwen Ishmael, Escalent SVP, an...
Intentional Future Making
I attended Tech Titans sponsored”Intentional Future Making” event at UTD. Speakers were Anne Balsamo, Dean of UTD School ATEC, Gwen Ishmael, Escalent SVP, an...
Dallas Innovation Task Force Q2
Just attended the second quarter task force meeting this year on innovation at Dallas run by the Dallas Regional Chamber. Special guests were Japanese delega...
Innovation Spring in Dallas!
I participated in several events around Dallas this month of April, and each one is proving more and more that Dallas is a great hub for innovation. Here is ...
Dallas Meetup on Deep Learning
My friends, Aamer Charania, Babar Bhatti, and I had a meetup on artificial intelligence and deep learning at Thomson Reuters office in Carrolton Texas. Aamer...
media
Sad month for IT publication magazines
Sad month for IT publication magazines. After 30 years of publication, the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN) magazine, which first started as Microsoft Sy...
Tech Titans - Intentional Future Making”
I attended Tech Titans sponsored”Intentional Future Making” event at UTD. Speakers were Anne Balsamo, Dean of UTD School ATEC, Gwen Ishmael, Escalent SVP, an...
Sad story about print books
Sad story on the decline of print books used by students and faculty in their studies or checked out at libraries (over 60% decline). Nowadays digital articl...
Watching car races on TV
When cars were all mechanical and less tech and TVs were black and white with antennas, watching car racing was so memorable. You can’t replay or pause like ...
Posting course achievements on social media
Lot of social media users tend to publicize their LinkedIn or Coursera course achievements. When we were at college, we would not post on walls that we compl...
innovation
Exciting Periods Ahead for Tech
I think that the remainder of the year and the following year will continue to be an exciting period for IT. Hype of AI has toned down a little, and now we h...
planes should keep us alive
All the news about planes crashing, planes burning, planes disappearing, planes stalling, and more of these is so devastating. It is true that one has a high...
Key tech announcements this past week
Key technology announcements in the last few days for software developers, blockchain, and data science. Both Amazon and Microsoft launched their managed blo...
Innovation Spring in Dallas!
I participated in several events around Dallas this month of April, and each one is proving more and more that Dallas is a great hub for innovation. Here is ...
technology
Inventions & Documentations
Many past inventions, such as 17th century mechanical calculator machines or early 20th century computers, suffered from clearly identifying the innovators a...
The word “Technology”
Origins of the word “technology” : “technology (n.)
US adults and tech knowledge
A recent Pew Research study found that majority of US adults answered digital related questions correctly only less than half of the time. Some security rela...
phd
Recalling the PhD experience
Woke up at 5am this Saturday morning for some research and work before the family wakes up. While doing some digital clean up on with my old Evernote notes, ...
Financial Sentiment Analysis
As part of my Phd dissertation at Walden University, I developed an application that would analyze the sentiments of tweets that include the stock symbols of...
chatbot
Build with Watson
Last night I played around with IBM Watson Internet of Things and Bluemix cloud services platform using their developer tools. IBM changed their developer p...
Google AIY
Setting up Google Voice AIY was an easy challenge but getting Google Vision AIY took a deep toll on me to successful solder the smaller Raspberry PI Zero W g...
music
8-bit Symphony
If you are a fan of 8 bit retro computer games, especially the Commodore 64, combined with a mixture of symphonic orchestra and modern day electronic music s...
My Story with Pink Floyd
Sometime between ‘91 and ‘92 I accidentally saw Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall part 2 video on MTV - the scene where school kids turn into .. Loved t...
project
planes should keep us alive
All the news about planes crashing, planes burning, planes disappearing, planes stalling, and more of these is so devastating. It is true that one has a high...
Is agile an urban legend and waterfall a taboo in project management?
Stamping a project as agile does not guarantee a successful execution; flagging a project as a waterfall does not ensure a failed implementation either. For ...
management
planes should keep us alive
All the news about planes crashing, planes burning, planes disappearing, planes stalling, and more of these is so devastating. It is true that one has a high...
Is agile an urban legend and waterfall a taboo in project management?
Stamping a project as agile does not guarantee a successful execution; flagging a project as a waterfall does not ensure a failed implementation either. For ...
entrepreneurship
Innovation Spring in Dallas!
I participated in several events around Dallas this month of April, and each one is proving more and more that Dallas is a great hub for innovation. Here is ...
Entrepreneurship in Dallas
For Dallas Entrepreneurs, soon-to-be, or any of my Dallas contacts, you should check out the following entrepreneurial sources in Dallas. The DEC (Dallas Ent...
AI
AI should not perfect the human voice
Been thinking that machines must not perfect the human voice. That’s because racial and gender discrimination has hurt our generations for a very long time, ...
Watching car races on TV
When cars were all mechanical and less tech and TVs were black and white with antennas, watching car racing was so memorable. You can’t replay or pause like ...
xml
Reverse XML - lessons that I learned for millennial sake
In April of 2001, I was so much into XML and had some innovative ideas of my own. I was working as a software engineer at Knowledgeview. The company was heav...
bookmarks
Commodore 64/128 FTP Sites
I found this set of FTP sources for the Commodore 64 and 128 from one old mailing list Commodore FTP Sites Listing Last update 21 Aug 2009 by Cameron Kaiser ...
networks
Ant Intelligence
“Ant Intelligence” podcast with Dr Deborah Gordon on DataSkeptic is my new favorite podcast episode that I highly recommend for computer and data scientists....
code
Not just the world is round but the technology world is round as well
If the world is round then so as the technology world is round as well. In the late seventies and eighties, the BASIC language and Assembly Language were hot...
careers
Cool 8th Graders, Computers & Games!
It is my 3rd year volunteering at Lamar Middle School (Lewisville ISD), a nearby school to our house in Texas. I kept accepting the volunteering task of pres...
talents
Embrace Gen Z into the Workforce
The corporate world should seriously embrace Generation Z into their workforce. Those born after 1997 are entering the workforce this year. Their approach in...
education
Keep Learning
These days students graduate and become the new interns/young professionals in the workforce. Energy is high and spirits are up. They want to make a differen...
research
Sad story about print books
Sad story on the decline of print books used by students and faculty in their studies or checked out at libraries (over 60% decline). Nowadays digital articl...
nlp
AI should not perfect the human voice
Been thinking that machines must not perfect the human voice. That’s because racial and gender discrimination has hurt our generations for a very long time, ...
voice
AI should not perfect the human voice
Been thinking that machines must not perfect the human voice. That’s because racial and gender discrimination has hurt our generations for a very long time, ...
corporate
Gen Z in Corporate Strategy
In several forums on digital transformations that I attended in the last two years, I would ask the panelists on whether they are incorporating Generation Z ...
generationZ
Gen Z in Corporate Strategy
In several forums on digital transformations that I attended in the last two years, I would ask the panelists on whether they are incorporating Generation Z ...
millennials
Gen Z in Corporate Strategy
In several forums on digital transformations that I attended in the last two years, I would ask the panelists on whether they are incorporating Generation Z ...
lebanon
Uber & Airbnb to the rescue
If past governments could not turn Lebanon into a non-sectarian non-religious-divided society, mobile services apps such as Uber and Airbnb might do that. Le...
banfield
Innovation @ Banfield
We do a great deal of innovative activities here at Banfield. Like any innovation, some ideas become successful and would scale, while other ideas would get ...
cybersecurity
IT Transformation & Cybersecurity Forum
It was exciting to moderate two sessions in Seattle, one on cyber security to cover for the original planned presenter, and the other on “IT Transformation a...
personal
2/22/2012
My dad passed away 2/22/2012. Cancer took him after a long fight. He was a pioneer in journalism and future thinking. He loved the pen and paper. He loved hi...
productivity
Microsoft Power Tools
For the techies that used Windows 95 in 1995, they may recall Microsoft Power Tools. Those were a bunch of freeware tools that did not go in the main operati...
games
Technology Evolution Through Pac-Man
I think we can mark significant evolution of technology through 3 different milestones in which the game Pac-Man was used. For those who don’t know [Pac-Man]...
ai
Technology Evolution Through Pac-Man
I think we can mark significant evolution of technology through 3 different milestones in which the game Pac-Man was used. For those who don’t know [Pac-Man]...
machine-learning
Technology Evolution Through Pac-Man
I think we can mark significant evolution of technology through 3 different milestones in which the game Pac-Man was used. For those who don’t know [Pac-Man]...
raspberry pi
Making Pet Weight Scale Techie-cool!
Pet hospitals use veterinary scale such as the Weight South VS-2501 for weighing small to large animals. A hospital associate would guide the pet to the scal...
pet care
Making Pet Weight Scale Techie-cool!
Pet hospitals use veterinary scale such as the Weight South VS-2501 for weighing small to large animals. A hospital associate would guide the pet to the scal...