Juan Orbea

Throughout the 70s, they were able to make a series of investments that went particularly well (Gillet, Washington Post…).

However, growth in magnetic memory is not primarily a matter of Moore’s law, but includes advances in mechanical and electromagnetic systems. The following two charts show the overall growth of the Internet based on the number of hosts. These two charts plot the same data, but one is on an exponential axis and the other is linear. So from the... See more

Readers will learn about the real possibility of dramatically enhancing intelligence based on neuroscience findings and the positive implications this could have for education and social policy. 

If we view the exponential growth of computation in its proper perspective as one example of the pervasiveness of the exponential growth of information based technology, that is, as one example of many of the law of accelerating returns, then we can confidently predict its continuation. In the accompanying sidebar, I include a simplified... See more

You might imagine that roughly around the time when TARP and the various bail-out decisions were being made, that it could have gone either way, and that we could have, for example, allowed the too-big-to-fail entities to fail, and that it would have had negative consequences at the financial layer, negative consequences probably at the economic... See more

Bill Browder, MBA '89, founder and CEO, talks about Hermitage Capital Management's investments in Russia and the fall out from the widespread corruption that still pervades Russia's economy.

A superintelligence is a mind that is much more intelligent than any human. Most of the time, it’s used to discuss hypothetical future AIs.

Alternative construction methods continue to build momentum especially in the 3D printed homebuilding world. We take a look at projects by 3D printing builders Diamond Age and Icon as well as talk to scientists researching 3D printing applications that will influence the future of homebuilding.