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The Beginning of the Internet of Things
Ten years ago the term, let alone the concept of smart cities did not even exist. But over the past decade it has grown into the idea of delivering better, more efficient and affordable services at the level of government that has the closest connection to constituents’ daily lives. GCN brought this news to us in their article, “Driving…
Read MoreFaith in the Internet of Things
Europe’s biggest software maker SAP is planning to invest heavily in products that help companies to connect everything from washing machines to cars to the Internet. Reuters brought this news to us in their article, “SAP to invest 2 billion euros in Internet of Things by end 2020.” The German company estimates there is a 250…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Plays Well
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made friends with graphic design. This interesting information came to us from Extreme Tech in their article, “This new application of layered neural nets is about to make Photoshop amazing.” A group of researchers from Cornell University and Adobe have layered neural nets atop an image style transfer AI that results…
Read MoreSEMIC 2017 Will Be Streamed Live
The SEMIC Conference 2017 starts this week in Malta. SEMIC 2017 is the seventh edition of the SEMIC conference that is organized under the scope of the ISA² Programme. They will bring together inspirational talks and presentations on forward-looking data and information management initiatives from European public administrations, EU institutions and agencies and the private sector. If you aren’t…
Read MoreSemantic Learning Opportunities
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is offering two interesting learning opportunities this week. How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data on June 14, 2017, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. EDT. This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search and discovery applications using linked data. The Linked Open…
Read MoreUniquely RDF
Resource description framework or RDF is a graph data model. Its value lies in the things it can do uniquely, like describing resources in the W3C’s Semantic Web activity. RDF’s simple data model and ability to model disparate, abstract concepts has led to its increasing use in knowledge management applications unrelated to Semantic Web activity. ZD Net…
Read MoreThe Same and Not
Semantic technology and machine learning have many possibilities as the technologies continue to grow and evolve. This interesting topic came to us from Blasting News in their article, “Flickr presents visual ‘similarities’ in search results.” The online photo sharing app, Flickr, has been experimenting with many new features over the years and the most recent involves…
Read MoreSemantic Power
Data is powerful; we know that. Yet not many people are aware of how much power they have at their fingertips in the information of today. Image & Data Manager brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Thing Vs. String: Is Your Data Personable?” With semantic information processing, it is now possible for a platform…
Read MoreLooking at Social Media Data
Looking to social media platforms for information, researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have presented a prototype of a multi-device system that can involve citizens in managing emergencies. Phys.org brought this information to our attention in their article, “New multi-device system for handling emergencies with information from social networks.” The system can be used through…
Read MoreChanging Semantic Search
The public beta release of spot.my by RowAnalytics Ltd could change the landscape of search platforms for open access life science literature. PR Newswire brought this information to our attention in their article, “RowAnalytics Launches Public Beta of spot.my, its New Deep Semantic Search Tool for Life Science Research.” spot.my is intuitive, and its deep semantic search engine…
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