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ACM Tech Talk: Michael Jordan on Decision Making
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ACM Tech Talk: Michael Jordan on Decision Making

Of particular interest to me, how do we integrate decision making with machine learning?  Plan to attend.March 25 Talk on Machine Learning and Decision Making with...

Transportation Updates
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Transportation Updates

Bottom line, lots of work yet to do in completely autonomous cars.  The number of miles driven in CA seems impressive.Some excerpts from Wired Transportation. At...

SETI Shuts Down
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SETI Shuts Down

SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence)  Have followed this effort for many years, even participated for a while in the 90s.  Perhaps sad, but I have not...

North Korean Cryptocurrency Money Laundering
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North Korean Cryptocurrency Money Laundering

Considerable detail in recent Technology Review Article.   An indication of how carefully we need to examine and regulate these technologies.  Much more at theThis...

AI Used to Support the US Tax Code
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AI Used to Support the US Tax Code

Makes perfect sense to look for patterns and predictions based on complex rules.  AI Comes to the Tax Code   By The Wall Street JournalThe U.S. Internal Revenue...

Autonomous Drone piloting
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Autonomous Drone piloting

Could have used this for our forestry resource measurements, which required expensive and time consuming surveys by road or helicopter.  Further doing this to determine...

Physician Voice Assistant Suki
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Physician Voice Assistant Suki

Have now seen several related system, it appears none of these have been successful.Physician Voice Assistant Startup Suki Closes $20M Funding Round  Eric Hal Schwartz...

Kirk Borne on AI and Human Nature
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Kirk Borne on AI and Human Nature

Have met Kirk, he has an astrophysics background similar to mine.  Here a podcast with him by Byron Reese.On Episode 108 of Voices in AI, Byron and Kirk Borne discuss...

Adapting Policing from Your Doorbell
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Adapting Policing from Your Doorbell

Continue to follow this.   As a user and a believer in using technical collaboration to make the world safer.  Some interesting adaptations to construct community...

Responding to the Unexpecteced
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Responding to the Unexpecteced

A place where we often need assistance,   Often an important aspect of process design and optimization.   Technical.Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During...

Technology and the Future of Marketing
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Technology and the Future of Marketing

An interesting Podcast re the future of marketing and its implications.Why Omni-channel Personalization Is the Future of MarketingPodcastNetcore's Rajesh Jain talks...

Boston Dynamics Handle Robot
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Boston Dynamics Handle Robot

With video of the robotic system being used in real warehouses.Handle Teams Up With Mobile Robots on Warehouse LogisticsBoston Dynamics and OTTO Motors partnerBy...

Pay for Data You Use—Not Data You Store
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Pay for Data You Use—Not Data You Store

Towards using/measuring the value of data you use.Cloud Services Tool Lets You Pay for Data You Use—Not Data You StoreIEEE SpectrumCharles Q. ChoiComputer scientists...

Machine Learning and Earthquake Data
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Machine Learning and Earthquake Data

Been following this thread for sometime.  Been testing the CA use of local earthquake warning systems.   Actual predictive methods seem to be lagging here.  But...

Rush to Deploy Robots in China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
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Rush to Deploy Robots in China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Rush to implement robotic solutions.  Less potential infection, but are they skilled and perceptive enough to perform assistant functions needed?A patrol robotCNBC...

Autonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go Slow
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Autonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go Slow

Somewhat obvious,  but well examined suggestions hereAutonomous Vehicles Should Start Small, Go SlowSelf-driving vehicles can already work well on campuses where...

Designing Services for Utility Ecosystems
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Designing Services for Utility Ecosystems

Upcoming Talk:ISSIP Service Design Speaker Series: Designing Services for the Future of Utility Service Ecosystem   on Wednesday, March 4th 2020,     11:00 AM -...

Google Fairness Gym
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Google Fairness Gym

A considerable effort reported on here to experiment with the broad idea of fairness in machine learning, via the notion of a 'gym' to exercise choices and results...

Alexa Answers Healthcare and Pharma Questions
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Alexa Answers Healthcare and Pharma Questions

Good aim at typical questions from the home.  Maintenance, regulation and liability may prove a prove an issue.Amazon’s Alexa can now answer more questions about...

Trick forTeaching AI the Meaning of Language
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Trick forTeaching AI the Meaning of Language

More advances in machine language learning and understanding.Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of LanguageBy MIT Technology ReviewBaidu, Chinas closest...
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