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Another Hurdle Cleared by the Self-Driving Car

By Meera Collier | 18 Sep 2017

A friend of mine was saying the other day, “I want to be able to go to my car, type something like New York City , take a nap, and have the car wake me when I get there.” My friend lives in California; barring supersonic auto 2 [*] transportation, it would be a long nap. But the technology is there or will be soon. The question is—will the laws be able to keep up? About a week ago, the U.S. House...

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Underneath the Stars

By Meera Collier | 10 Sep 2017

Today I would like to share with you a short essay written by my friend David Lettvin [1] . I’ll let it speak for itself. It was a bright clear fall day as I drove over the Tobin Bridge and into Boston. I commuted in the early morning to avoid rush hour. I was in a good mood. I had some Doo-wop on the radio and a four-shot Americano in the cup holder. I drove through the maze of twisty downtown streets, pulled...

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Music and AI: A Follow-Up

By Meera Collier | 5 Sep 2017

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” ― Pythagoras “Where words leave off, music begins.” ― Heinrich Heine “Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” ― E. Y. Harburg As I usually do, I let my inner circle of friends know whenever I post a new installment of my blog...

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Is it Amper, or is it Music?

By Meera Collier | 30 Aug 2017

Note: Use your headphones for this post! On August 21 st , one week ago, the world’s first album composed and produced by an AI was unveiled. In collaboration with the human singer/songwriter Taryn Southern, the album I AM AI was released, featuring the single “Break Free”: (Please visit the site to view this video) Taryn worked with Amper, an artificially intelligent music composer, producer...

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Artificial Intelligence: A Love Story

By Meera Collier | 22 Aug 2017

Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications to become increasingly more accurate in predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. This involves programming that uses algorithms that receive input data from sensors, and then uses statistical analysis to predict an output. If the system includes an actuator, the system performs an action based on that...

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The Book and The Novelty: Metaphors, Part II

By Meera Collier | 15 Aug 2017

I’m in the middle of reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s most recent book, Here I Am , on my morning commute (and no, I'm not reading and driving at the same time — I don't have a Level Three car yet). I came across the following passage and had to pause the recording to think about it. In it, the author describes a podcast (reference below) in which “the book” and “the novelty”...

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Metaphorically Speaking... Part I

By Meera Collier | 14 Aug 2017

In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland , Alice ends up in a world of crazy logic, having tea with the Hatter and the March Hare at a Mad tea party. The Hatter asks her the now-famous question, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” After puzzling on the question, Alice asks him for the answer, and he admits he doesn't know—either why he asked it, nor what the answer is. Alice responds, rather...

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Apple Pie à la Muir: Complexity

By Meera Collier | 8 Aug 2017

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." —Carl Sagan Storytime When I was a teenager, I had a hard time getting up in the morning. It was so much easier to justify hitting the snooze button on my old clock-radio than to convince myself to get out of bed. One morning, as I was lying there trying to force myself vertical, I started thinking about that durn...

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System Design Enablement: And the Green Grass Grew All Around

By Meera Collier | 3 Aug 2017

...And the flea on the feather, And the feather on the wing, And the wing on the bird, And the bird on the egg, And the egg in the nest, And the nest on the twig, And the twig on the branch, And the branch on the limb, And the limb on the tree, And the tree in a hole And the hole in the ground And the green grass grew all around, all around And the green grass grew all around. — Traditional Camp Song ...

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Is Patience a Virtue?

By Meera Collier | 20 Jul 2017

Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can; it’s seldom found in woman, but never in a… Wait, that can’t be right… This is the final installment in my series on thoughts that were inspired by Lip-Bu Tan, our CEO, when he gave his roundtable with Cadence employees last month. The first was a pondering of the importance of sound leadership , not only with one organization but all organizations...

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Mentors and Advocates

By Meera Collier | 13 Jul 2017

“The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed.”—William Gibson As I mentioned in my last blog post , I attended a Cadence round table with Lip-Bu Tan, our CEO, early last June, and have started to get a sense of what makes our leader tick. In that post, I talked about the importance of trusting the leadership of not only a single organization but also about how it’s...

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Trust in Leadership: It's Turtles All the Way Down

By Meera Collier | 10 Jul 2017

Since 2009, Cadence's CEO and leader has been Lip-Bu Tan. I haven’t had the opportunity sit down and talk with him since joining Cadence in January, so I was eager to attend a Cadence Round Table with Lip-Bu early last June, as well as attending Lip-Bu’s 1:1 conversation with Ed Sperling at DAC . I think I’m just starting to scratch the surface of getting to know Lip-Bu and what his priorities are...

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Verification at DAC17: Shall We Go to the Pantry or the Cookbook?

By Meera Collier | 26 Jun 2017

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, Austin Convention Center. Noon. I’m wilting in the heat. The temperature outside will get up to 95°F today, with 71% humidity. I’m such a delicate California flower, durn it; never have I been so thankful for Texas air conditioning. I’m also over-caffeinated and underslept (having finally arrived at my hotel in Austin at 12:30am), but happy to be here to experience my first...

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Wear Your Code on Your Sleeve

By Meera Collier | 13 Jun 2017

I learned how to knit only about a dozen years ago, and it quickly became an obsession. I can’t even begin to guess at the number of scarves, blankets, sweaters, socks, baby things, and stuffed animals I have created since then. I have made lace, learned Fair Isle, tangled cables, loved color knitting, hated intarsia, figured out short rows, and started measuring my stash of yarn in marathons (one marathon is 26...

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The Next Levels

By Meera Collier | 31 May 2017

As I wrote in my last post , SAE International has identified six discrete levels of vehicle autonomy. I described the first three in my last post; these are cars that you will see driving on the road today, ranging from the driver having complete control over everything, to some automation (like cruise control and ABS), to more than one system working together to help a driver (like sensing traffic, lane drift, and...

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Autonomous Automotive Ruminations

By Meera Collier | 23 May 2017

With the announcement yesterday of Ford ousting its old-school CEO and replacing him with a guy who had previously been working on their autonomous vehicles division (and before that, I kid you not, he sold office furniture), yet another grain of sand—albeit a large one—has fallen into the Auto 2 [ remember what that means? see my first blog post ! ] hourglass. The clock is undeniably ticking towards the time...

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Schrödinger’s Teapot: To Sum It Up...

By Meera Collier | 18 May 2017

If a watched pot doesn't boil, and you don't know if someone else is watching your teapot, you can only determine whether it’s boiling by pouring it out. Also: A teapot may or may not exist and may or may not contain boiling water, and it's up to the person that posits its existence to prove it. True story. Anyway, on the topic of functions and logic and philosophy, I thought you might appreciate...

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Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Follow-Up

By Meera Collier | 17 May 2017

I was thinking more about my post from the other day ( Translate THIS ), and the fact (or is it a fact?) that if everything were a function of everything else, how would you write … well, everything in mathematical form? With apologies to Douglas Adams, the answer can’t be as simple as “ 42 ”. I wrote to my brother, ‎ Jonathan Collier (Director of Finance at Kimpton Hotels by day; Mathematician...

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Translate THIS!

By Meera Collier | 15 May 2017

You know how on your Facebook feed, there is a “Memories” feature, where it reminds you of posts from previous years? A couple of things from last year rolled up on my feed today: I said: Voice translation software still has far to go... To whit, from a voice mail: "I missing you wishing you a note to chew-poodles and I really would much interested in talking to you..." A link to a neat...

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Elementary, My Dear Monkeybrain

By Meera Collier | 5 May 2017

“Intuitions are not to be ignored, John. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.” “… No human action is ever truly random. An advanced grasp of the mathematics of probability mapped onto a thorough apprehension of human psychology and the known dispositions of any given individual can reduce the number of variables considerably.” ― Mark Gatiss and...

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Six Degrees of Freedom: Embedded Vision Summit 2017, Pt. II

By Meera Collier | 2 May 2017

Embedded Vision Summit 2017 is now over, and my notebook is full to overflowing with notes and my phone is full of bad photos of amazing content. If I had to pick one adjective to describe the show, it might be “motivated”. We all know that machine learning is growing in every possible way something can grow; some might call it exponential growth, some might call it cancerous — but regardless of the...

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Putting the "Vision" in Visionary: Embedded Vision Summit 2017

By Meera Collier | 2 May 2017

I loved the first day of the Embedded Vision Summit, held in Santa Clara today. Specifically focusing on the vision side of Lip-Bu’s “ machinelearningdeeplearning ”, this conference was a presentation of five different tracks, focusing on different aspects of this very new industry. Most conventions and trade shows I have attended have been in well-established industries, which, for me, always feels...

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My First CDNLive, Part 1: Welcome!

By Meera Collier | 14 Apr 2017

Tuesday, April 11, 2017, Santa Clara Convention Center. 10:20 am . I am sitting in the theater of the convention center. The over-enthusiastic air conditioner is blowing refrigerated air on the few of us who have taken our seats before the rest of the attendees had drunk their coffee and swallowed down their convention pastries and melon slices; by 10:30, the theater is packed with a standing-room-only crowd. Most...

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