Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Real Social Needs
by Lee Rickwood
Although services and solutions for social needs do exist, it is clear that awareness, access and availability must be increased.
Tag: artificial intelligence
Groceries, Health Care, Data Integration: High-Tech Feeds Growth at Loblaws
by Lee Rickwood
Integration among the traditional grocery store and other modern conveniences, collectively known as the “deep grocery” is being driven by new retail insights gathered by digital technologies and online applications.
Mathematics Software Supports Student Learning
By Yasmin Ranade
Waterloo-based Maplesoft, provider of mathematics-based software to STEM educators, researchers and engineers, has launched Maple Learn, a free, online learning tool to make it easier for students and researchers to analyse and solve mathematical problems. It is also cool to note that this software is powered by the world’s most powerful mathematics engine, which is used by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.
Look Out. Listen Up. Hackers Creatively Attack Surveillance Systems
by Lee Rickwood
Visual artists, computer technologists, fashion designers and AI engineers are developing tools to creatively attack or undermine today’s surveillance infrastructure.
New Privacy Laws Coming to Canada
by Lee Rickwood
Under the new Act, Canadians could demand that their information on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, be permanently deleted. And the country’s privacy commissioner could order them to comply.
Area X.O: High-tech Test Facility for Drones, Self-Driving Cars Opens Near Ottawa
by Lee Rickwood
Robust testing and evaluation is one way to ensure the safe and secure implementation of advanced technologies like drones with artificial intelligence.
Tech Looks Beyond AI to New Capabilities with Computer Vision
by Lee Rickwood
New computational machines with human-like perception and the smarts to make sense of what they see will have an incredible impact on our life.
All You Need Is… Quantum Cloud from Canadian Tech Startup Xanadu
by Lee Rickwood
A Canadian high-tech startup released what’s called the world’s first publicly available photonic quantum cloud platform; it uses photons, or particles of light, to perform complex computations exceptionally fast.