Developers get open source boost for data privacy protection
Google has announced that it is releasing the open-source version of a differential privacy library that helps power some of its own products.
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Engineering
Delivering new concepts for urban citizens
The city could be thought of as a living organism that requires inputs of energy, nutrients, and water and exudes wastes. Traditionally, engineers designed and managed the systems that bought energy and water into the city ...
Aug 28, 2019
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Security
Preventing privacy leaks when online data can be gathered publicly
Protecting an individual's identity from cyber thieves can be a monumental task, especially when thieves can gather information about someone by just using public data sources.
Aug 20, 2019
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Engineering
How data science in and for Africa can blaze new trails
The term "data science" was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in 2008. A few years later, they dubbed it "the sexiest profession of the 21st century."
Jul 29, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Free dataset archive helps researchers quickly find a needle in a haystack
Let's say you're doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you're a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets—but ...
Jul 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
DistME: A fast and elastic distributed matrix computation engine using GPUs
DGIST announced on July 4 that Professor Min-Soo Kim's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed the DistME (Distributed Matrix Engine) technology that can analyze 100 times more data 14 ...
Jul 17, 2019
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Computer Sciences
How the Avengers assemble: Ecology-based metrics model effective cast sizes for Marvel movies
In a recent study, researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) in Adelaide have tried to use ecology-related concepts to model effective cast sizes for movies, focusing on ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Drag-and-drop data analytics
In the Iron Man movies, Tony Stark uses a holographic computer to project 3-D data into thin air, manipulate them with his hands, and find fixes to his superhero troubles. In the same vein, researchers from MIT and Brown ...
Jun 27, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
New machine learning algorithm can predict age and gender from just your Twitter profile
A new "demographic inference" tool developed by academics can make predictions based solely on the information in a person's social media profile (i.e. screen name, biography, profile photo, and name). The tool—which works ...
May 16, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
The ethics of emerging technologies
In today's digital age, artificial intelligence and big data are helping people navigate the world in new ways. While many researchers are using these new tools to innovate and advance different disciplines, a few, like Fred ...
Apr 10, 2019
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