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.
This is great news! Players of the game FoldIt solved the puzzle of the molecular structure of a protein causing AIDS in rhesus monkeys that hadn’t been solved for 15 years. The game FoldIt has been created to propose as a game the scientific problem of finding the 3D molecular structure of a protein. Read More …
The most mentioned benefits of Crowdsourcing are that reaching many people allows you to do things cheaper and faster. This properties have been tested by Stephen de Souza, screenwriter, and Sunil Rajaraman, CEO of Scripped.com. They published their experience in: Crowdsourcing creative content: a case study, check hereunder their Lessons Learned! Steven de Souza has written Read More …
Remember how boring it was to visit a museum as a child? And more, when everybody was over the sign you coudn’t even reach the explanations? Lately museums have adapted their displays to attract children’s attention, but see now How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience. Aliza Sherman writes about the new experiences implemented in Read More …
Ed Borasky (@znmeb) pointed me out this article Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data leak. In it, Mark Stockley explains a scheme easy to follow to obtain private information. It is based on the errors users make when writing an email address. Security researchers have captured 120,000 emails intended for Fortune 500 companies 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 …
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 Read More …
In producing something new, doing a product or a project, I am convinced that showing as soon as you can something similar to the final product or result is the best way to elude misunderstandings. Doing sketches at the first stage, prototyping afterwards really help to put all stakeholders in sync. A month ago I Read More …
I don’t think I’m the only one surprised by this possibility, am I? Microsoft admitted to a ZDNet reporter that they would turn over data from European companies, in European based servers, if the data was the subject of a U.S. Patriot Act investigation or request.Now, everyone has always known that data held in U.S. Read More …
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 Read More …