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Instructure’s Lessons | Technology and Learning
Before we talk about Instructure, let’s get something out of the way. Does anybody write about the edtech ecosystem, including the LMS and OPM world’s, as skillfully as Phil Hill? How should we make sense of the fact that the best analysis at the intersection of higher education, technology, and companies is coming from outside …
Using Machine Learning To Reveal How the Brain Encodes Memories
Researchers working in The N.1 Institute for Health at NUS, led by Assistant Professor Camilo Libedinsky from NUS Psychology, and Senior Lecturer Shih-Cheng Yen from the Innovation and Design Programme at NUS Engineering, have discovered that a population of neurons in the brain’s frontal lobe contain stable short-term memory information within dynamically-changing neural activity. …
6 essentials for fighting fraud with machine learning
Stu Bradley is Vice President of Fraud and Security Intelligence at SAS We hear it all the time: Fraud prevention is hard because fraudsters continually change and adapt. The minute you figure out how to recognize and prevent one scam, a new one emerges to take its place. Naturally, then, the best technology for fighting …
Freight forwarder Airspace Technologies relies on round-the-clock machine learning
Most of the time when executives in transportation and logistics cite “machine learning,” it’s little more than a buzzword that evokes vague notions of technology continually improving itself. That was decidedly not the case with Ryan Rusnak, chief technology officer at Airspace Technologies, a time-critical freight forwarder based in San Diego. In a presentation at …
3 Myths About Machine Learning in Health Care
Executive Summary Machine learning will dramatically improve health care. There are already myriad impactful ML health care applications from imaging to predicting readmissions to the back office. But there are also high-profile, expensive efforts that have not achieved their goals. In the authors’ collective roles as the CEO of a care delivery analytics business, tech-driven …
SCI’s Leona Mitchell to Speak at Annual Event for Women in Technology | Pittwire
Leona Mitchell, professor of practice in the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information (SCI), is set to speak at the annual RedChairPGH “Sit With Me” event on Nov. 21, held to promote gender diversity in technology. Mitchell is founding director of the Professional Institute at SCI. The Professional Institute offers continuing education programs in cybersecurity for working …
Learning from the Germans: how we might atone for America’s evils | World news
Under the subtitle Race and the Memory of Evil, the philosopher Susan Neiman relates hard truths from which others shrink. Her audacious work is a refreshing change from those, afraid to offend, who leave unsaid things that seem self-evident. Cages detaining refugees at the southern border are indeed “concentration camps”. The genocide of Native Americans …
Viewpoint 181: Technology and innovation enhance learning opportunities
The year 2019 has brought many exciting things to the Brainerd Public Schools. Many you can see every time you drive down Oak or South Fifth streets in Brainerd, Lakers Lane in Nisswa or Mapleton Road in Baxter. While these are all exciting changes that we can see from the outside, educational technology is being …
New Stony Brook Technology A Breakthrough In Machine Learning
Stony Brook University unveiled new computer servers this week that will help process information through artificial intelligence and imaging to create the next generation of technology. The SMART (Strategic Machine-Learning Acceleration and Ray Tracing) Cluster is a collection of servers with the processing power of 20,000 iPhones. Arie Kaufman, chief scientist of the research group …
Trump reversed course on hosting G-7 at his club after learning that impeachment-weary Republicans were tired of defending him
Democrats, meanwhile, continued to blast Trump for awarding the massive government contract to his own company and said they might add the alleged “emoluments” violation to the articles of impeachment they are preparing. The White House has been struggling to explain Trump’s G-7 decision since it was announced Thursday. The president’s opponents quickly seized on …
