A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Give Data as you give Blood. Global Pulse, an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, wants to analyse private data for the public good. The idea is to find patterns in data coming from private companies, and share those findings. For that, they have to find a way enterprises can deliver Read More …
If you are in the area of Intelligent Information Management, check Roberto Zicari’s blog, he explains this call for projects from the European Commission in a simpler way than in the official site! Basically, they are funding projects in these areas: a) Reactive algorithms, infrastructures and methodologies b) Intelligent integrated systems c) Framework and tools Read More …
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 Read 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 Read More …
I enjoyed reading this analysis of innovation from Matt Ridley in reason.com, here are his conclusions : Ideas Having Sex: How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith Innovators are in the business of sharing. It is the most important thing they do, for unless they share their innovation Read More …
Yesterday, Watson performed fantastically until last question at the Jeopardy TV show. Here’s that last one: Question (in category “U.S. Cities”): “Its largest airport is named for a world war II hero; its second largest for a world war II battle.” Watson’s Answer: “Toronto?????” The correct answer is Chicago, and it was one of Watson’s Read More …
It began with GPS with maps, interest points… Now we have smartphones with satellite images and many layers that can be added. What would YOU like to have as augmented reality in your daily life? And on holiday, when traveling? Autonomy CEO explains how the future of computing stems from the 18th century… Today, augmented Read More …
Here Pete Warden describes the release this month of A Free Visual Programming Language for Big Data: Until the last few years, large scale data processing was something only big companies could afford to do. As Hadoop has emerged, it has put the power of Google’s MapReduce approach into the hands of mere mortals. The Read More …
I liked the analogy Michael Driscoll and Roger Ehrenberg used in their article announcing GigaOM’s Structure: Big Data conference on March 23 in New York City. In a similar vein, much of the world’s most valuable information is trapped in digital sand, siloed in servers scattered around the globe. These vast expanses of data — Read More …