When I ask someone -who is Helen Greiner?- the response is usually a blank stare. Helen who? OK- have you heard of Roomba? Now that’s a familiar name. Well, Helen Greiner is the woman behind that invention. It is just one of the products produced by iRobot, the company she co-founded in 1990. Other household-friendly Read the full article…
May 25th started with an historic moment for space flight. SpaceX’s Dragon capsule was the first commercially built vehicle to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Assuming the mission completes successfully, with the capsule splashing back to earth loaded with cargo from the ISS, SpaceX will ferry much needed supplies and experiments to & Read the full article…
In my previous post, I mentioned traveling to Stockholm in January (which is definitely not tourist season there). I had been invited to speak at the Forest Beyond conference sponsored by Innventia, KTH, & Vinnova. The theme was creating new businesses based on forest products. My particular talk was on creating a culture of innovation. Read the full article…
Some information about 2 of the Singularity team projects that I liked best: Matternet and Ignisolar.
Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the closing session for Singularity University‘s 2011 Graduate School Program. Speakers included Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis (co-founders of Singularity U), Reid Hoffman, and Vinod Khosla along with overviews of the student’s projects. For now, I’ll highlight some of the comments made by Hoffman and Khosla. In my next post, Read the full article…