Bar Quero's Tech Info

What is Watson?

barqueros — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:56:04 +0000

Ok… I was lurking on the web to find something interesting to post and I found this @lbenitez blog

A computer capable to play Jeopardy; or in other words, capable to clearly understand natural language; and give an answer accordingly…

This project is awesome, it’s a big leap in terms of human/computer interaction and of course a great AI effort

MSDN gives Artinsoft’s VBUC 10000 lines free license

barqueros — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:40:06 +0000

Artinsoft is a company based in Costa Rica with more than 15 years of experience on Automatic software migration. It’s technology was the main component on the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard; a piece of software embedded on previous Visual studio Versions.

What is the VBUC?

VBUC (Visual Basic Upgrade Companion), is a feature rich application that performs a VB6 to C# or VB .Net migrations; with high level of automation. Making your critical applications modernization a less painful and expensive process.

And now Microsoft and Artinsoft are offering a free license to you!

Check it out you are a click away to get this world class piece of software for free.

ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC)

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IBM’s Hot-Water Supercomputer Goes Live

barqueros — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:04:03 +0000

Take a look at this interesting solution from IBM

IBM’s Hot-Water Supercomputer Goes Live « Data Center Knowledge

Statistics and Data Gathering

barqueros — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:01:46 +0000

This video impresses me pretty much, besides the sort of information this guy is talking about which is so important. The most impressive thing in this video is the way he exposes that information and the proposal he does about the way to publish all the data that are “hidden” on the statistical agencies around the world.

GapMinder

Plastic cutting CO2 emissions!!!

barqueros — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:45:14 +0000

I read it today and i am impressed. This guys developed a new membrane that mimics pores found in plants which helps to separate molecules faster and using less energy than other plastic membranes.

The secret to the new plastic lies in the hourglass shape of its pores, which help to separate molecules faster and using less energy than other pore shapes. In plant cell membranes, hourglass-shaped pores known as aquaporins selectively conduct water molecules in and out of cells while preventing the passage of other molecules such as salt.

This is a huge discovery on the environmental foot print reduction of the industrial processes.

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