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ACM-W Connections — December 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters Grace Hopper India 2018 News from ACM-W…
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Killing the Password
When we traveled in the enterprise we always took a key generating device with us as a means to replace the password, which was then combined with the use of aYour...
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Eye Tracking Helps Augmented Reality
Pointed at by some of our retail experiments.Eye-Tracking Technology Could Help AR The Dartmouth by Anthony RoblesDartmouth College researchers have developed...
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Architecture for Complete Talking Buildings
Smart homes are still built up in fairly unstructured ways. Mine still has pieces of it fail, and can be difficult to repair or add to if the supplier piecesThe...
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Microlearning and the Brain
Interesting idea for thinking about how to classify useful learning.Microlearning and the BrainMicrolearning is effective for hard skills but detrimental when it...
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Nature of Human Trust in Machines
This topic came up in a recent discussion of AI. Past evidence had said that in certain contexts people trust AI better than humans, simplistically because the...
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Radical New Neural Network Design
Less definition of the architecture it seems and training adapts to results.Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI in Technology...
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Learn Chinese from a Smart Speaker
Have been experimenting with smart speakers to learn, teach and improve conversational language skills.Here is an example from Indiegogo. Note this is still in...
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Google to Stop Selling Facial Recognition for Now
Hmm, most everyone else will be selling face recognition products. Can they also be also be 'having no potential for evil'? Other technical topics of this sort...
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Mastering Conversations
In the Google Blog, some useful thoughts on conversations. We need to think about how we talk to machines, and with people. How the Google Assistant masters—and...
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Sensing in Complete Darkness: One Photon Per Pixel
Appears to be a very valuable development in a number of sensing domains.MIT engineers have found a way to use AI to reveal objects in total darkness–even transparent...
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Amazon and Medical Records
Amazon is Showing Healthcare is the Next Big Thing for Machine LearningAmazon will save Healthcare industry $Billions via machine learning algorithm that extracts...
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Blockchain Disruptive force for Car Connects?
Despite all the questioning press, large tech and automotive companies are still studying how to apply Blockchain for key applications, like trusted interaction...
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Tuya Introduces Family level security for Smart Homes
Via RFID Journal, have experimented with their IOT offerings.Tuya Smart Intros Smart-Home IOT Security System Using Facial Recognition Tuya Smart, which produces...
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Alexa Patents a form of Healthcare Assistance?
Only a patent, so its hard to say where this might go. Look at the link for more details. Implying a diagnosis and prescribing a remedy seems a dangerous direction...
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State of US Autonomous Trucking
From McKinsey. Have now seen two tests of the concept. Impressive results. Yet regulation has not caught up. Distraction or disruption? Autonomous trucks gain...
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Goal Setting, Nudges and Machine Learning
Interesting study-based results. Now should the same approach be used for training and goal setting of machine learning? Not just the ML of current systems,...
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Deep Learning vs Reinforcement Learning
Short excerpt, worth reading the whole thing. But instructive as it is:Artificial Intelligence: What's The Difference Between Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning...
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AI Booming, Accelerating
TheVerge reports and comments on the boom. No indication of a winter here. Notable also is the broad world-wide boom, in the past expansion it was US, Japan and...
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Predictions Cheaper, Faster, with Risk
In Strategy+Business. Provocative thoughts of what AI is. It is a prediction. But also the prediction of a number of other (meta) things: The future, some solution...
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