To reduce costs, a number of health organizations like Kaiser-Permanente, Bellin Health, PinnicleHealth, QualMed, and others are teaming with big-box retailers like Target, Safeway, Giant and other big-box retailers to create in-store medical clinics for primary care. The model is web-based where nurses and nurse practitioners staff the in-store location to screen patients. If … [Read more...]
Caffinate Your Startup Like eDiscoverySquad with 1 Million Cups of Coffee
Million Cups (1MC) is a simple way to engage entrepreneurs in communities around the world. Each week, the 1MC program offers two local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs. Presenters prepare a 6 minute educational presentation and engage in 20 minutes of feedback and questioning after they … [Read more...]
Apache Spark Claims 10x to 100x Faster than Hadoop MapReduce
Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system that claims 10x to 100x performance improvements over Hadoop. It runs "everywhere" from standalone to EC2 and runs on Hadoop, Mesos, standalone, or in the cloud. Spark runs provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala and Python, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. It also supports … [Read more...]
ASpIRE – IARPA Automatic Speech Recognition in Reverberant Environments Challenge
Submission deadlines are Feb. 4, 2015 (single microphone) and Feb. 19, 2015 (multiple microphone). The ASpIRE challenge asks solvers to develop innovative speech recognition systems that can be trained on conversational telephone speech, and yet work well on far-field microphone data from noisy, reverberant rooms. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate their … [Read more...]
MIT Study Finds Computer Neural Networks Identify Visual Objects As Well As The Primate Brain
A new study from MIT neuroscientists has found that one of the latest generation of so-called “deep neural networks” matches the object recognition ability of the primate brain. This improved understanding of how the primate brain works could lead to better artificial intelligence and, someday, new ways to repair visual dysfunction, notes Charles Cadieu, a postdoc at the … [Read more...]
Signup for the Deep-Learning Based Microsoft Skype Translator Preview
Signup to preview the Microsoft Skype deep-learning based real-time audio language translator. Currently only Spanish and English translations are enabled, but more are promised. In a lovely test, Peterson School in Mexico City, and Stafford Elementary School in Tacoma, USA were asked to play a game of ‘Mystery Skype’ in which the children ask questions to determine the … [Read more...]
Google Maps Adds Virtual Reality
Google has added virtual reality to Google Maps with the use of their cardboard smartphone app and holder. Total cost for those who have an android is either free (build a cardboard holder from the google plans) or up to $25 USD for a dodo cardboard case. View this video to see Google cardboard in action. http://youtu.be/lyscJbdBREE The Google Play store … [Read more...]
NVIDIA K80 1.8x Faster and “Highest Energy Efficiency to Date” for Financial Applications
STAC, the financial industry benchmarking organization, released performance testing results on the new NVIDIA Tesla K80 Dual-GPU Accelerator. In the STAC-A2 benchmark, which helps financial institutions and banks better manage risk, the NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU set new performance records. The test code only used two threads on the host processor plus the K80 CUDA code was … [Read more...]
Turn Glasses or Sunglasses into Smart Glasses with Sony Device
Sony announced the development of an attachable Single-Lens Display Module that can turn eyewear of varying designs into smart devices. Mass production is expected to start this year. An SDK will be provided to partnering organizations for this Single-Lens Display Module that is claimed to offer "arithmetic processing capabilities on par with smartphones that was made … [Read more...]
The Demise of Dr. Dobbs
Since the days when the 8080 was the desirable CPU, Dr. Dobbs has been publishing materials for programmers. That era ends with the close of 2014 as no new content will be added to the Dr. Dobbs website. Existing content will still be available, but in the fast moving world of technology it will soon become dated and left behind. Happily, the final Editor-In-Chief confirmed the … [Read more...]