Internet
The app failure that led to a chaotic 2020 Iowa caucus was a reminder of how vulnerable the democratic process is to technological problems—even without any malicious outside intervention. Far more sophisticated foreign ...
Mar 6, 2020
0
5
Security
While smart cities and smart homes have become mainstream buzzwords, few people outside the IT and machine learning communities know about TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Theano. These are the open-source machine learning (ML) frameworks ...
Mar 5, 2021
0
28
Hi Tech & Innovation
Senior citizens need help and encouragement to remain active as they age in their own communities. Given the choice, that's what most would prefer. The smart city can provide the digital infrastructure for them to find and ...
Mar 4, 2021
0
1
Engineering
The highest-ranked areas in an Australia-wide assessment of smart city performance are all in metropolitan regions with higher population densities. "Australia's 60 top-performing local government areas house more than quarter ...
Feb 5, 2020
1
9
Engineering
To Ilan Mandel, a Cornell robotics researcher and builder, the math didn't add up. How could a new, off-the-shelf hoverboard cost less than the parts that compose it?
Sep 14, 2023
0
98
Computer Sciences
In artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems can be thought of as a society of individuals (agents) that interact by exchanging knowledge and by negotiating with each other to achieve an individual/global goal. In real ...
May 10, 2022
0
15
Energy & Green Tech
To manage future electricity demand in line with the EU's Energy Roadmap 2050, power grids need to rely on both supply and demand flexibility and be structured as a system of systems.
Dec 23, 2022
0
11
Software
Research into smart cities is on the rise. Smart cities are defined as those using technologies (the Internet of Things, sensors, drones and big data) to improve people's quality of life. Today, a number of such projects ...
Oct 19, 2020
0
4
Energy & Green Tech
Equipped with high-tech versions of common city fixtures—namely, smart benches and digital information signs—and fueled by a "deploy or die" attitude, MIT Media Lab spinout Changing Environments is hoping to accelerate ...
Jan 27, 2017
1
24
Business
A questionnaire sent to South Australian households has found that more than half don't understand what a "smart city" means, despite Adelaide being one of the most wired cities in Australia with very fast internet speeds ...
Jan 11, 2023
0
10
