I have the honor and privilege of interning at the Sagamore Institute in Indianapolis this summer. I’m absolutely ecstatic about the opportunity to learn and create at such an incredible institution. For those not familiar with the Sagamore Institute I’ve shared two short videos below that explain who they are and what they do.
Carmel based ChaCha recently teamed up with Android application developer Dexetra to provide the power behind their popular voice powered question and answer application called Iris. The Iris application is in direct competition to Apple’s Siri.
ChaCha’s vast database of questions and answers provides a critical component to the mobile personal assistant competition. Iris’s utilization of ChaCha provides real answers provided by real people compared to Siri’s programmed language and parameters.
This is an absolute game changer in the mobile personal assistant market.
Personally I think that this is only the beginning of how this technology can be utilized. We’ll have to wait and see what ChaCha comes up with in the future!
Until then, take a look at Iris with ChaCha in action.
The Super Bowl Host Committee has accomplished many incredible projects leading up to the big game. The XLVI Indy Music Project caught my eye. The project is a compilation of 46 songs created by Indianapolis artists ranging in date from 1950 to today. They made the songs available to stream or download for free. Much respect goes to the committee for highlighting the incredible talent that resides here in Indy.
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” - Walt Disney
The Center for the Performing Arts and Carmel City Center in Carmel, Indiana during a snowfall.
Photographs: Jonathan Haag
Editing Software: Instagram
Date: December 27, 2012
Language - Stephen Fry
An effective organization (of any type) is one that seeks to empower, not control.
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
