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.
Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena Read More …
Andyvision is the name of this ET-looking robot. You can find it at the CMU store near the Carnegie Mellon University, checking the inventory. Andyvision[…] scans the shelves to generate a real-time interactive map of the store, which customers can browse via an in-store screen. At the same time, the robot performs a detailed inventory Read More …
Jennifer Marcus’ article UCLA neuroscientists demonstrate crucial advances in ‘brain reading’ details a study done by theLaboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology. UCLA neuroscientist researchers just released the promising results of a study, where they measured the prediction of machine learning algorithms on ‘brain reading’ (also called ‘brain decoding’). The research was funded by the National Read More …
Yesterday was the great day. Eleven hours of TED, full of talks of around 8 minutes each: what a challenge for the speakers, and for the audience! It was tiring, but worth it. What did I like the most? By far and on a different register than the other speakers, Paddy Ashdown: what a clear 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 …
Google opened to the public their recently launched Prediction API This API allows you to create a Classifier, that learns from a dataset of examples. Your example data can be numeric or plain text, and it results in hundreds of categories. It has built-in several machine learning algorithms, and it chooses automatically one for your Read More …
Have you read the Robots Series from Isaac Asimov? This article by G. Ananthakrishnan reminded me of Solaria, the planet where its inhabitants had no contact with each other, too afraid of getting contaminated by microbes. They visited each other through sophisticated holographic viewing systems instead . Read about next product of Microsoft Research, being Read More …
Color is a new photo-sharing application for iPhone and Android phones. It allows you to share the photos you have taken through it with any other Color user near you. And you get to see also his or her pictures 🙂 They defined a ‘proximity’ criteria, that creates local temporary networks. As soon as Read More …
The 22nd. of February check NOVA’s article Smartest Machine: Expert Q&A, where Watson’s Team Leader David Ferrucci will answered selected questions.
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 …