Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Al Gore, former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, environmental activist, sometime VC, occasional entrepreneur and all-around busy dude.
Of course, Gore talked about a wide range of issues, from the legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs (Gore is on the company’s board), to being an adviser to Google, to the “broken” U.S. political system, to alternative energy.
Here’s his onstage interview with Walt Mossberg:
AsiaD: Jonney Shih Full Session
AsiaD: Jonney Shih Full Session
Asus chairman Jonney Shih talked with Walt Mossberg about the blurring boundaries between tablets, notebooks and smartphones at AllThingsD's AsiaD conference last month.
AsiaD: Jerry Yang Full Session
AsiaD: Jerry Yang Full Session
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Rose Tsou, who oversees the company's business interests in Asia, spoke with Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD's inaugural Asian conference last month.
Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Al Gore, former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, environmental activist, sometime VC, occasional entrepreneur and all-around busy dude.
Of course, Gore talked about a wide range of issues, from the legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs (Gore is on the company’s board), to being an adviser to Google, to the “broken” U.S. political system, to alternative energy.
Here’s his onstage interview with Walt Mossberg:
Sony’s Kazuo Hirai on Reviving the Iconic CE Brand and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October.
We’ve been following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Sony’s Kazuo Hirai.
Hirai is a key figure at the Japanese consumer electronics giant, which has been struggling to revive itself after dominance turned to years of decline; he is widely considered the second in line to CEO Howard Stringer.
In an onstage interview with Walt Mossberg, the elegant exec, who was a longtime gaming exec at Sony, talked about the next-generation (but delayed) Vita game player, smartphones and Sony’s first Google Android tablets, which are now launching.
Here’s the video:
Huawei’s John Roese on the Telecom Giant That Wants to Roar: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: John Roese, head of Huawei’s North American R&D team.
While not as well known as others, the Chinese company is the world’s second-largest maker of telecommunications and networking gear. You might hear more about it soon, though, since Huawei aims to increase its annual revenue to more than $100 billion per year within the next decade, by expanding its business beyond communications service providers.
Roese is one of the execs charged with making it so by expanding in the U.S. and focusing on research.
Here’s his onstage interview with Ina Fried:
Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang on Superman Quad-Core Chip, Microsoft and Apple: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)
We’re following the schedule of the actual event. Up now: Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
An early pioneer in graphics chips, the tech company is now aiming at the market for processors driving smartphones, tablets and, soon, PCs. Nvidia’s latest effort is a quad-core chip code named Kal-El, which is the Krypton moniker of Superman.
Is Huang the Man of Steel? Or, at least, can he steal some of major rival Qualcomm’s thunder?
Here’s the video of his onstage interview with Walt Mossberg:
Self-assembly and self-healing for robotic collectives
In the future, Rubenstein hopes to implement his thesis work on “Self-assembly and self-healing for robotic collectives” on the kilobots. An example of such a system is show in the video below.
Mike Rubenstein is a postdoctoral researcher from the Self-organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard. In an effort to make large swarms of robots a reality, he’s been building 1024 coin-sized robots dubbed kilobots. Challenges include making the robots low-cost and easy to assemble, recharge, reprogram and control. The final system is made with only $14 worth of parts, takes 5 minutes to assemble and can be operated in less than a minute. The open source release of all the electronics and assembly documents is expected near the end of this year.
After bording a plane with 100+ robots, Rubenstein was able to demonstrate the system at IROS.
Rezero is the name of a unique Ballbot, able to balance and drive on a single sphere.
Rezero is the name of a unique Ballbot, able to balance and drive on a single sphere. Especially designed for high acceleration, it moves in a very organic and elegant way. Rezero is the first Ballbot prototype which is able to show the full capacities of a Ballbot.
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