23
Jun
2015
Jun
2015
drones and libraries
categories: announcement, Library and information science
Drones and Robots for Reference? (RUSA-MARS)
Sunday, June 28, 2015 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm
more on drones in this blog:
Searching for "drone"
05
Jun
2015
Jun
2015
drones as a menace
categories: Uncategorized
Copping a ’copter
In the hands of criminals, small drones could be a menace. Now is the time to think about how to detect them and knock them down safely
http://www.economist.com/node/21650071
In March, it [the French Government] held trials of anti-drone “detect and defeat” systems.
DroneShield’s system is centred on a sophisticated listening device that is able to detect, identify and locate an incoming drone based on the sound it makes
28
Apr
2015
Apr
2015
drones and privacy
Weighing in on drone privacy rules
http://fcw.com/articles/2015/04/27/drone-privacy-rules.aspx
National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s “multi-stakeholder process” to develop privacy policies for commercial and private use of unmanned aircraft systems.
The Future of Privacy Forum said privacy threats aren’t equal and a lot can depend on exactly what technologies a given UAS is carrying.
More on drones in this blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=drones
19
Mar
2015
Mar
2015
3D printing, drones and wearable
categories: Digital literacy, technology literacy
CoSN 2015: The Emerging Tech That’s Transforming K–12’s Horizon
One year or less (2015–2016):
- BYOD
- Cloud computing
- Makerspaces
- Mobile learning
Two to three years (2017–2018):
- 3D printing/rapid prototyping
- Adaptive learning technologies
- Information visualization
- Learning analytics
Four to five years (2019–2020):
- Badges/Microcredit
- Drones
- Visual data analysis
- Wearable technology
The NMC’s interim K–12 Horizon Report can be downloaded for free.
15
Oct
2014
Oct
2014
drones
If you are interested in sharing ideas about DJI drones, please do consider sharing them under this blog entry
Here is more on drones at our blog:
29
Aug
2014
Aug
2014
Drone wars:
categories: technology
Google Inc (GOOGL) and Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)’s Forthcoming Drone Wars
http://www.techinsider.net/google-inc-googl-and-amazon-com-inc-amzns-forthcoming-drone-wars/1114967.html
Please consider other IMS postings on drones:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/08/27/faa-has-commercial-drone-regulations-backwards/
27
Aug
2014
Aug
2014
FAA Has Commercial Drone Regulations Backwards
Drone entrepreneurs frustrated as FAA regulation remains up in the air
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drones-unmanned-aircraft-pushing-limits-of-the-law/
FAA Has Commercial Drone Regulations Backwards
The FAA’s position is as simple as it is inane. If a realtor films buildings for fun using a remote controlled quadcopter that’s legal. But if she takes that same quadcopter and films buildings as part of her job, that is illegal. If a farmer flies a model aircraft over his cornfield doing barrel rolls and loops, that’s legal. But if he uses the same model airplane to determine how to conserve water or use less fertilizer that’s illegal. This is government regulation at its worst.
The FAA decision is a reversal from the initiatives entertained at different universities:
Drone Technology Advancements Yield New Education Opportunities
Two universities operate drones and teach journalism students how to use them
read more:
U.S. Lags As Commercial Drones Take Off Around Globe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/us-drones-_n_4978768.html
Please Don’t Be the One to Get Drones Banned
http://petapixel.com/2014/08/27/take-get-drones-banned/
04
Aug
2021
Aug
2021
What is AI
What is AI? Here’s everything you need to know about artificial intelligence
An executive guide to artificial intelligence, from machine learning and general AI to neural networks.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
It depends who you ask.
What are the uses for AI?
What are the different types of AI?
Narrow AI is what we see all around us in computers today — intelligent systems that have been taught or have learned how to carry out specific tasks without being explicitly programmed how to do so.
General AI
General AI is very different and is the type of adaptable intellect found in humans, a flexible form of intelligence capable of learning how to carry out vastly different tasks, anything from haircutting to building spreadsheets or reasoning about a wide variety of topics based on its accumulated experience.
What can Narrow AI do?
There are a vast number of emerging applications for narrow AI:
- Interpreting video feeds from drones carrying out visual inspections of infrastructure such as oil pipelines.
- Organizing personal and business calendars.
- Responding to simple customer-service queries.
- Coordinating with other intelligent systems to carry out tasks like booking a hotel at a suitable time and location.
- Helping radiologists to spot potential tumors in X-rays.
- Flagging inappropriate content online, detecting wear and tear in elevators from data gathered by IoT devices.
- Generating a 3D model of the world from satellite imagery… the list goes on and on.
What can General AI do?
A survey conducted among four groups of experts in 2012/13 by AI researchers Vincent C Müller and philosopher Nick Bostrom reported a 50% chance that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) would be developed between 2040 and 2050, rising to 90% by 2075.
What is machine learning?
What are neural networks?
What are other types of AI?
Another area of AI research is evolutionary computation.
What is fueling the resurgence in AI?
What are the elements of machine learning?
As mentioned, machine learning is a subset of AI and is generally split into two main categories: supervised and unsupervised learning.
Supervised learning
Unsupervised learning
Which are the leading firms in AI?
Which AI services are available?
All of the major cloud platforms — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform — provide access to GPU arrays for training and running machine-learning models, with Google also gearing up to let users use its Tensor Processing Units — custom chips whose design is optimized for training and running machine-learning models.
Which countries are leading the way in AI?
It’d be a big mistake to think the US tech giants have the field of AI sewn up. Chinese firms Alibaba, Baidu, and Lenovo, invest heavily in AI in fields ranging from e-commerce to autonomous driving. As a country, China is pursuing a three-step plan to turn AI into a core industry for the country, one that will be worth 150 billion yuan ($22bn) by the end of 2020 to become the world’s leading AI power by 2030.
How can I get started with AI?
While you could buy a moderately powerful Nvidia GPU for your PC — somewhere around the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or faster — and start training a machine-learning model, probably the easiest way to experiment with AI-related services is via the cloud.
How will AI change the world?
Robots and driverless cars
Fake news
Facial recognition and surveillance
Healthcare
Reinforcing discrimination and bias
AI and global warming (climate change)
Will AI kill us all?
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more on AI in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence+education
02
Apr
2021
Apr
2021
Snap AR
categories: AR
Snap is reportedly working on AR Spectacles and a selfie drone
15
Feb
2021
Feb
2021
China hackers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships. And Elemental was just one of hundreds of Supermicro customers.
interdiction, consists of manipulating devices as they’re in transit from manufacturer to customer. This approach is favored by U.S. spy agencies, according to documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The other method involves seeding changes from the very beginning.
In emailed statements, Amazon (which announced its acquisition of Elemental in September 2015), Apple, and Supermicro disputed summaries of Bloomberg Businessweek’s reporting.
The Chinese government didn’t directly address questions about manipulation of Supermicro servers, issuing a statement that read, in part, “Supply chain safety in cyberspace is an issue of common concern, and China is also a victim.” The FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, representing the CIA and NSA, declined to comment.
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more on hackers in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hacker