As of mid-June, I'm leaving Nokia/HERE and joining Right Hand Robotics; it's both a long-overdue return to the startup world *and* a long overdue career change - though I'll certainly be applying lots of software experience, fundamentally they *build actual things* which will be quite a shift.  I'm very excited, the overall enthusiasm level at ( Read more... )

As the entire world has figured out (I've even seen a translation of the press release in what I think was Thai) MetaCarta has been acquired by Nokia. This is a positive, even rewarding, thing... Nokia brings lots of resources to the table, and is building a global geographic search service ( http:// ( Read more... )

I heard a rumour that iRobot is actively hiring. Then I saw a blue convertible Jaguar with a trunk full of wood, at Home Depot, with an MIT parking sticker and license plates "ROBOT". Then I look at the web page to see what kind of hiring they're talking about, and see a picture of the "iRobot-LE" - which is a stair-capable telepresence robot ( Read more... )

There's something about Mondays ( Read more... )