Educating Silicon is a blog about machine learning and robotics. Most of my content these days is on X. For seven years I switched to Google+, now long gone, but that content is archived here.
I did my PhD in robotics, specializing in visual place recognition methods. I spent four happy years making an algorithm called FAB-MAP. After that I co-founded a start-up called Plink [1], which was an early search-with-an-image app. In 2010 Plink was acquired by Google, and I worked at Google building computer vision systems for a few years. I left Google for love and adventure and started a new company called Pointy, which was a wild ride, and also acquired by Google ten years later. My current day job is angel investing. I am also kept busy by the pitter patter of tiny human feet.
Contact me at mark(at)educatingsilicon(dot)com.
[1]: Most of Plink is now gone from the web, the best video demo still up is this one taken by a user. Enjoy the pumping sound track.