#netexplo 2014

Louis-Philippe Morency, Principal for SIMSENSEI, Netexplo 2014 Laureate

Minter Dialogue Episode #99

This interview is with Louis-Philippe Morency, one of the Principal Investigators on the SimSensei project being run at USC. SimSensei was one of the top ten award winners at this year’s Netexplo Forum. Louis-Philippe, was voted one of the top 10 people to watch in AI for 2008 by IEEE Intelligent Systems, is at the forefront of the burgeoning digital health movement.…

Netexplo 2014 – Interview with Ian Fisher, Digital Journalism at New York Times

At this year’s Netexplo 2014 Forum, I had the good fortune to moderate two of the sessions on the main stage, including an interview with Ian Fisher, Associate Managing Editor of Digital at the New York Times. With Ian, we discussed Deepening Digital Journalism at the venerable NYT, covering topics such as Watching Syria’s War (which I had discussed last year with Jennifer Preston — follow…

Netexplo Forum 2014 – Some fundamental trends in new tech #Netexplo

This year’s Netexplo Forum * 2014 was original in more ways than one. For starters, the second day (of 3 days) was entirely distributed; i.e. it was held at a distance with live streaming. That’s to say, all the panels were conducted in a studio and streamed online (on NetexploLive) instead of at the majestic UNESCO House (where Days 1 and 3 were held in presence). Secondly, there were some…

Wibbitz – the play button of the web and Netexplo 2014 Grand Prize Winner (MDE96)

Minter Dialogue Episode #96

Yotam Cohen (VP Business Development) and Zohar Dayan (CEO) – co-founders of Wibbitz

This interview is with the two founders of Wibbitz, Zohar Dayan and Yotam Cohen. Wibbitz, the Netexplo Grand Prize Winner of 2014, is a service that creates a summarized automatic video of text on the web. The founders have the ambition to be the play button of the web. If you haven’t…