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.
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 More …
In last week’s PWI lunch, Monika Kuschewsky explained to us the ever-changing data protection landscape. She’s a partner at Van Bael & Bellis, where she heads the firm’s European data protection law practice. Data protection has been reinforced with the Treaty of Lisbonne, now there is an obligation to inform any data loss or bridges Read More …
Crowdsourcing is changing traditional business models allowing new service markets to develop across international borders, and enabling a large number of providers and consumers to participate. It’s also being used in social and public initiatives, like emergency response organisations in the case of the Haiti and Japan earthquakes, where a large number of people joined 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 …
Check article by Michael Marshall on this subject: Virtual robots have “evolved” to cooperate – but only with close relatives. The finding bolsters a long-standing “rule of thumb” about how cooperation has evolved, and could help resolve a bitter row among biologists. They created simple robots, and simulated their behaviour over 500 generations. Each robot 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 …
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 …
Ouroboros is a serpent that eats its tail. Check this 2 recent news about data privacy in France: 1. Last week Google has been fined by France on data privacy violation (keeping e-mails and other personal data), as stated by Google News in Daily Motion Google Inc. (GOOG) opened higher and is up near 3% Read More …
While discussing crowdsourcing with friends here in Belgium, the issue of how moral it is to hire people for less money than a local worker would charge, has been risen. Belgium is a very socialist minded country, and I will give you an example of what I’m talking about: For the TaxMan, if you ask Read More …
Look at this article where Paul Sloane talks about Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing on the Rise […] Crowdsourcing is an extrapolation of Open Innovation in which you throw out a challenge to a group of people that you may or may not know and solicit their ideas and solutions for your issue. Many web-based companies Read More …