The tool is called Predictive World
and the premise is simple: log in using your Facebook account and it will pull
information based on your profile. (You
can choose the more anonymous route and only enter your age and gender, but
your predictions will be less accurate.)
After everything is analyzed, you’ll be able to
explore dozens of statistics and predictions, including your life
expectancy, your risk of being murdered in the next decade, how likely you are
to take career risks, and even your entrepreneurial potential.
All of this is a collaborative project between the
University of Cambridge and Watch Dogs 2, a game that explores the
dangers of an increasingly interconnected world.
For my Computer Security students.
I’ll have to ask my students how augmented reality
improves chats.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/26/how-one-israeli-tech-start-up-could-change-snapchat-as-we-know-it/
How One Israeli Tech Start-Up Could Change Snapchat As We
Know It
Snapchat, a California-based messaging app platform, is
set to buy Israeli augmented reality start-up Cimagine Media.
Cimagine
created a technology — True Markerless Augmented Reality — that allows users to
preview furniture and appliances they wish to purchase by virtually placing the
objects in their homes via a mobile app.
… Experts note
that while Cimagine has impressive technologies, it is likely their employees’
skills that drew Snapchat’s attention.
I’ll start adding these to my AI file. Someday I hope to write an AI servant to do
this for me.
Apple Publishes Its First Artificial Intelligence Paper
Apple has published its very first
AI paper on December 22. (The paper was submitted for publication on
November 15.) The paper describes a
technique for how to improve the training of an algorithm's ability to recognize
images using computer-generated images rather than real-world images. [Because ‘real’
is so unpredictable. Bob]
For my students who had better be researching!
Anatomy of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in Wake of
Social Media
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Dec 26, 2016
Anatomy
of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in the Wake of Social Media.
Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta, Mohammed Samaka, Edward A. Fox.
“As more scholarly content is being born digital or
digitized, digital libraries are becoming increasingly vital to researchers
leveraging scholarly big data for scientific discovery. Given the abundance of scholarly
products-especially in environments created by the advent of social networking
services-little is known about international scholarly information needs,
information-seeking behavior, or information use. This paper aims to address these gaps by
conducting an in-depth analysis of researchers in the United States and Qatar;
learn about their research attitudes, practices, tactics, strategies, and
expectations; and address the obstacles faced during research endeavors. Based on this analysis, the study identifies and describes new behavior patterns on the part of
researchers as they engage in the information-seeking process. The analysis reveals that the use of academic
social networks has remarkable effects on various scholarly activities. Further, this study identifies differences
between students and faculty members in regard to their use of academic social
networks, and it identifies differences between researchers according to
discipline. The researchers who
participated in the present study represent a range of disciplinary and
cultural backgrounds. However, the study
reports a number of similarities in terms of the researchers’ scholarly
activities. Finally, the study
illuminates some of the implications for the design of research platforms.”
For my Ethical Hacking students.
Public HTTP API for software developers to search geolocation
of IP addresses
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Dec 26, 2016
“freegeoip.net provides a public HTTP API for
software developers to search the
geolocation of IP addresses. It uses a database of IP addresses that are
associated to cities along with other relevant information like time zone,
latitude and longitude. You’re allowed
up to 10,000 queries per
hour by default. Once this limit is
reached, all of your requests will result in HTTP 403, forbidden, until your
quota is cleared. The freegeoip web
server is free and open source so if the public service limit is a problem for
you, download it and run your own instance.”
(Related). This is ‘deep
web’ not ‘dark web.’ Mr. Zillman’s lists
are always impressive!
New on LLRX – Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2017
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Dec 26, 2016
Via LLRX.com – Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2017 –
This report and guide by internet guru Marcus P. Zillman provides researchers with a
comprehensive and wide ranging bibliography of “deep web” data, information,
documents, code, papers, applications and cutting edge tools. They may be used individually, in groups and
in combination, as key drivers to build approaches and queries to harness
knowledge and information services that create strategic, actionable results
for your clients, users and customers, across all communities of best practice.
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