Hi there and thanks so much for stopping by!
My name is Wolf Paulus, I’m a photographer, hiker, hacker, and technologist, based in Ramona, California.
This is my journal, where I share quick thoughts and ideas on technology.
PRESENTATIONS
I’m appointed to the advisory committee at the University of California, Irvine, and occasionally speak at conferences and user groups, on topics ranging from Embedded/Mobile Technology to Emotional Prosody and Voice and Conversational User Interfaces.
UPCOMING
October 6, 2018 Desert Code Camp, Phoenix, AZ
On Saturday October 6, I will be speaking at the Desert Code Camp on Building an Alexa Skill w/ the newest Alexa Skill Kit for Java :: Impl. an AWS Lambda function in Java building and deploying w/ AWS CodeBuild
The event takes place at the beautiful Pecos Campus in Chandler – Gilbert, AZ.
February 5-7, 2019 Business of Bots Conference
The Business of Bots, the #1 Bot Conference for Conversational AI, Chatbots, Voicebots, Virtual Assistants and Multimodal, is taking place at the Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel on Sutter St. in San Francisco.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, my talk is titled “Affect in Bot Conversations”. You can read about and look at slides of course, but I’d rather meet with you in person in San Fran.
February 22, 2019 Computer Science Panel at San Diego State University
Panelist at the Spring 2019 Careers in Science Series at the San Diego State University
March 11-12, 2019 Conversational Interaction Conference
The CI Conference #CIcon2019 taking place at the DoubleTree San Jose, focuses on dynamic and rapidly developing areas of Artificial Intelligence, like interpreting speech or text.
On Monday, March 11, 2019, my talk is titled “Affect, the ultimate differentiator – The Engineering of Emotion.”
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”.
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.
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.
If you like, take a look at some of my photos and the stories they tell.
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Emotion Lamp
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Custom wakeup-words for an Android app
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Serverless compute with Java, on AWS Lambda
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Cross-Post from my article on VentureBeat.com With the rise of AI, voice, and more generally language-driven technologies — like chatbots,
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