Every day more than 2.5 quintillion (2.5 x 1018 ) bytes of data are created, coming from business and bank transactions, posts on social media sites, digital photos, videos, and other sensors as GPS signal and more. Big Data is the name of the mass of unstructured data available nowadays on Internet. All this large [...]
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Join me for the 21st. Anniversary of PWI-Professional Women International
Everything is (almost) ready for the 18th of October, for the 21st. anniversary of PWI (Professional Women International) in Brussels. I’m in the Board of this networking association since May, and I’m enjoying participating on this event organization, though it’s more work than I though! It takes time to put us (professional women) together, just [...]
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Watch out of the dark side of the moon, the Nazis are hiding there and want to invade the Earth! This weekend I had the opportunity to see the projection of Iron Sky, a dark science fiction comedy from the creators of Star Wreck. The film is a Finnish-German-Australian co-production, with a budget of about [...]
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CrowdFlower Reports Revenue of 300% Year Over Year and More Than 300 Million Enterprise Level Crowdsourced Microtasks Completed, Earning #1 Rank in Industry CrowdFlower is a microtasking crowdsourcing enterprise. The company solves information-based problems like product categorization, SEO content creation, web verifications, etc… by splitting the task into small pieces (micro-tasks), and giving them to [...]
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I saw the announcement of a webinar at Standford University on Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, and was curious about it. With such an attractive title, what could it be about? You can check the whole presentation on YouTube, he is announcib his new book, but the idea behind Positive Intelligence is to move yourself [...]
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I just read this article Gosling sails away from Google and Android, where they write about the last move of James Gosling (the father of Java) leaving Google for Liquid Robotics. Check the great autonomous and unmanned maritime vehicle they did: as Gosling says, the whole concept is really cool! Can you imagine the quantity [...]
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G’Day, mate! That’s the morning salute of the Aussies We are just back from Australia, where we have been travelling for a month. What a nice country, and what a bunch of friendly people we met down under! With the idea of going so far away, we had prepared ourselves, finding a software to [...]
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People encouraging people’s initiatives for the common good: here’s a great use of crowdsourcing for the benefit of the Indian population, and it’s done through crowdfunding! Here’s how the system works: Utility employees call NextDrop’s interactive voice response system when they manually open neighborhood water valves. The system generates text message updates for local residents [...]
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Walter De Brouwer presented yesterday TEDxKids@Brussels, and to add to our excitement, it was held in our neighbourhood! I think my oldest kid learned english more by listening to the TED talks podcasts than with the many lessons her mother made him take . Which is not a surprise, if you hear the speakers we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »77 Million of Stolen Passwords and more.
I am sure you heard already, even if you don’t have a PSP. We can read in The Economist that: Sony revealed that names, addresses, passwords and possibly credit-card details of 77m accounts were stolen when hackers gained access to the network it runs in 60 countries for its PlayStation online-gaming system, as well as [...]
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