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.
Data privacy is not a new issue. I found this great “user bill of rights” from an excellent editorial from last year in the San Francisco Chronicle, that has not grown old a bit: Users have the right to: 1. Honesty: Tell the truth. Don’t make our information public against our will and call it Read More …
Again this article in the Guardian: How remote teams can help the rapid response to disasters talks about crowds used for helping emergency response after a major disaster. After Haiti, the users trained to OpenStreetMap used it again for Japan tragedy. A report on humanitarian and volunteer technical groups co-operating after the 2010 Haiti earthquake 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 …
Last friday we had a very interesting networking lunch at PWI with Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London Ltd. She talked to us about the changes in the news media landscape, with Twitter, Facebook, Tencent and thousand of blogs and sites where people are posting their latest news. She presented some hard facts Read More …
Ringo-ring posted to the Global Brain group this info about Ledface : Web-based startup is to launch their global brain for private testing in June A startup company called ledface is working on their new web service that will turn each registered user into a node within collectively intelligent network. After acquiring the membership, users can start Read More …
I went last week to the Quantified Self Show and Tell. It was my first encounter with active ‘trackers’, and I was curious. Our modern life is so busy, how could someone find more time to keep track of daily information? And is it worth it? What about data privacy? Misha Chellam acted as facilitator Read More …
Look at this Kurzweil news: The brain’s three layers of working memory allow you to multitask They don’t mention it, I’ll have to check in the Cognitive Psychology journal… does this mean not only women but also men can multitask?? :-)) Researchers from Rice University and Georgia Institute of Technology have found support for the Read More …
Crowdsourcing is thought in this article as a way to handle emergency situations. Dr Anu Vaidyanathan, in her article: Use of technology for emergency response talks about her dissertation titled Proactive Crowdsourcing, her name for a Location-Based Service that could be used for Emergency Response. mars 6, 2011: Minutes after the February 22, 2011, earthquake Read More …
The church has faith…in crowdsourcing! As you can see, they did their maths: The idea with the online vineyard is essentially the same: “many hands make light work.” The twist with crowdsourcing, though, is that when the tasks are chunked into minute-size efforts, more people participate. With more participation, you can have a greater gain Read More …
Kemal Akman is an IT-security expert. Look at what he is writing about the future in IT-security (or call it AI-security), when AGIs will be here: (Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) are self-improving intelligent systems possessing the capacity to interact with theoretical- and real-world problems with a similar flexibility as an intelligent living being) To grasp Read More …