Hiro Ono's Odyssey

We have known the name of the newborn princess since about five years ago. I do not remember when it was exactly. It was between the wedding and the honeymoon, so somewhere in March or April.  I was a PhD student at MIT, living in a messy three-bedroom apartment facing Charles River, shared with two […]

There is a surge of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), which is my area of research, thanks to the recent victory of the Alpha GO algorithm over a human champion. Arguably the most famous AI in fictional universes, at least for space geeks like myself or movie lovers, would be HAL 9000 in 2001 Space […]