Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being

Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by coldtea on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @06:54PM (#6408715)

>It's Google. They have the right people, the right ideas, the resources, and they started first.

I believe we covered the "fawning from fanboys" part already.

>Source: I'm a prof in a related field with graduated PhD students at Google.

That's not a "source". That's at best a "full discosure" and at worst a "conflict of interest" in this discussion...

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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by agumonkey on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @08:04PM (#6408994)

Sebastian Thrun's team was the first winner of DARPA driverless vehicles (2nd year) challenge, the year before that contestants failed very early. Do you know car manufacturers with such know-how ? They probably had research about it but I doubt they were as complete. Since Google backed the project they did very extensive tests in the real world. GM and such are bringing back computer aided driving but I'm sure they're too busy sustaining their business to put resources in something as disruptive and risky.

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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by robotresearcher on Thursday September 19, 2013 @12:24PM (#6412608)

That's what I get for providing a professional opinion on HN? Wow.

For the record, none of my former students work on the Google cars as far as I know.

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