Wolf Paulus – Journal

Hi there and thanks so much for stopping by!
My name is Wolf Paulus, I’m a photographer, hiker, hacker, but most of all, I’m an innovator and technologist, based in Sedona, Arizona.
This is my journal, where I share thoughts and ideas on technology.

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PRESENTATIONS

I’m a Principal Engineer at Intuit, an Adjunct Professor at GCCCD, and I’m appointed to the advisory committee at the University of California, Irvine. Occasionally, I speak at conferences and user groups, on topics ranging from Embedded/Mobile Technology to Emotional Prosody and Voice and Conversational User Interfaces.

UPCOMING

April 29 - May 1, 2019 SpeechTEK, Speech Technology and AI Conference

On Wednesday, May 1st, 2019, I will be speaking at SpeechTEK 2019, The World’s Leading Speech Technology and AI Conference, where my talk is titled “The Engineering Of Emotion”.

October 12, 2019 Desert Code Camp, Phoenix, AZ

On Saturday October 12, I will be speaking at the Desert Code Camp.
The event takes place at the beautiful Pecos Campus in Chandler – Gilbert, AZ., where I will be talking about “Exploring Neural Word Embeddings with Python.” and also about Docker to Fargate, a hands-on talk showing how to create a Docker Container, storing its image in AWS ECR, a container registry, from which it is deployed and run, using AWS ECS and Fargate.

February 10-11, 2020 Conversational Interaction Conference

The CI Conference #CIcon2020 taking place in the Heart of Silicon Valley, at the DoubleTree San Jose, focuses on major AI trends in conversing with computers in human language.
On February 10-11, my talk is titled “Always empathic but never biased”. This talk explores and demonstrates possibilities of a likable and unbiased engagement, by using affective computing technologies and emotions analytics. I will ALSO turn to a more controversial but interesting topic: genderless bots and an approach that detects bias, before a bot relays it to its users.

The Bot Podcast

Usually, around this time of the year, I’d probably had spoken at several conferences and the calendar would show even more for the Fall, but I have no plans to speak at a ‘real’ conferences anytime soon .. but honestly, I really do miss it.
Let’s not feel too miserable, instead relive a moment when I shared some in-depth ideas about conversational interfaces and how to make them better for the future.

Digital Conversations with Billy Bateman

During this episode of Digital Conversations with Billy Bateman, I had the opportunity to talk about some principles of Voice User Interfaces and the importance of setting expectations.

INSPIRING VIDEOS

Many of the new concepts I’m working on, are communicated best through video clips or short films.
Take a look at some short HD films that I have created over the last few months and years.

STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS

“Amateur Professionalism”, a concept used since 2004, describes an emerging sociological and economic trend of people pursuing amateur activities to professional standards. That pretty much describes, how I look at my photography work today.
If you like, take a look at some of my photos and the stories they tell.

Cable Modem Signal Levels revisited

Fourteen years ago I wrote a blog post about the signal levels that come in and go out of your typical cable modem. Some things have changed some stayed the same. Let's revisit this topic. The IP address to connect ...
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Frictionless Speed / Zero Intent Skills

Teams had taken four runs down the 1,450 meter (almost 1 mile) long track, made of reinforced concrete, covered in ice. Still, their combined times were separated by less than a blink of an eye. The ice on the track ...
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Deploying Python AWS Lambda Functions

When it comes to deploying lambda function into AWS, I have been using mostly Java for the implementation language and runtime. However, using Python has some advantages, especially if the code does not require parallel threads. E.g., the deployment package ...
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Alicia Keys, honoured with Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2017

Alicia vs Alexa

Democratizing the creation of delightful audible content Have you ever heard an interview with Alicia Keys? She spent most of her childhood in Hell’s Kitchen, one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods. Experiencing how much emotion she’s putting into each word ...
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Even or Odd – Lambda Edition

Very recently, I showed you one of the probably easiest ways, to host your very own Java-based web-service. Remember, we added providedCompile group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'javax.servlet-api', version: '4.0.1' to the build.gradle file, implemented a WebServlet, and finally dropped a war ...
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Even or Odd

This is a quick demo, showing how to create a Java web-service in just a few minutes. I'm assuming you have Java and Tomcat already installed on you computer and use IntelliJ as your IDE, and gradle as your build-automation ...
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