The International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime

As a graduate of the University at Albany,  I am often invited to interesting events up there and the International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crimes this coming September is no exception. I plan to attend this conference and hope to bring something similar to NYC later in the year. If anyone is interested [...]

Disney Joins Hulu

How cool is this?
Disney joins Hulu
Disney has finally confirmed that full-length programming from ABC will join the line-up of online video service Hulu and that the Mouse is taking a stake in the NBC Universal/News Corp joint venture as part of the deal.

NASA and The Perfect Human

From SmartBrief on Entrepreneurship
NASA tech school aims to perfect humans
What better place is there to study robotics and biotechnology than NASA’s Silicon Valley campus? It’s the new home of Singularity University, which will welcome its first batch of student entrepreneurs — 40 forward-thinking grad students and businesspeople interested in topics such as “human enhancement” through [...]

Eric Schmidt’s new boss: Barack Obama

Google’s Schmidt Joins Obama’s Tech Team
Alexei Oreskovic/REUTERS
Google CEO is back at work for Obama.
The White House announced on Monday that Schmidt has been appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Goodbye Pontiac, We’ll miss you!

It was probably one of the coolest cars I have ever driven…my parents 1968 Pontiac LeMans Convertible.
For as far back as I can remember my parents always drove Pontiacs…due in part to our friendship with the Biener family who owned Biener Pontiac in Great Neck (now Biener Audi). My brother Cliff is probably better at [...]

Opening up Facebook to 3rd party developers?

Facebook Inc. is expected to announce significant plans to open up core parts of its site — namely the information that appears in the stream of updates on users’ homepages and profiles — to third-party developers so that they can build new services on top of it, people familiar with the matter say.

US Open is coming soon…and right down the street!

It was wild back in 2002 when my neighborhood hosted the US Open Golf Championship at nearby Black course at Bethpage State Park…and when they announced later that year that we will be hosting it again in 2009 it seemed like forever…well forever is here…and there are signs literally all over town!
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It was great being a parent this weekend!

Parenthood has its ups and downs…and I have to say if anyone were to ask me one of your biggest ups I would say it was this past week when my daughter Sarah played the role of Joanne in our high school performance of Rent (the school edition)
I was so proud of her…and when you [...]

Bea Arthur 1922 – 2009

From The Washington Post
Bea Arthur, 86, the actress whose well-timed put-downs, delivered with deep-voiced sarcasm, helped make her a comedy star and social spokeswoman in two major television sitcoms, “Maude” and “The Golden Girls,” died April 25 at her home in Los Angeles.
A family spokesman attributed her death to cancer.
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Barry Levinson: Poliwood to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Great story about Barry Levinson’s new film “Poliwood” to premiere at The Tribeca Film Festival next Friday.
The Collison of Politics, Celebrity and the Media: Barry Levinson Goes To “PoliWood”
by Peter Knegt/indieWire
“In the most simplistic way, it’s really about the collison of politics, celebrity and the media,” Barry Levinson told indieWIRE about his new documentary “PoliWood,” [...]

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