A study in Equal Distribution of Internet Access A look at how Regulators, Companies and Individuals are shaping the Broadband map across America Technology and the needs of businesses and consumers continue to evolve. Over the last 2 decades of mass internet penetration, availability and affordability have become the two key cornerstones of…
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Exposure Notification Express
Contact tracing with Exposure Notification Express This is part II of our blog post on Exposure Notification. Our original blog on Exposure Notification was published August 30th. Let’s look at the Background Public Health Agencies around the world and especially in US have had little success with using mobile phones based technology to…
Exposure notification
Image Credit: University of South Florida Exposure notification and Contact Tracing: Essential tools As the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the world, Governments, Organizations and People all over the World are trying desperately to break the vice like grip of this deadly pandemic. With more than 830,000 people dead and 25…
Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence: A deeper look
Whenever there is a talk of infusing technology, automation and intelligence in to tasks or processes, the solutions proposed fall in to two broad buckets. The first is the conventional use of the term Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and cognitive learning, which typically work outside human intervention and are largely driven…
Content Moderation and Social Media
Whats the problem! Image Credit: Adweek All content platforms and social media companies must keep the content flowing because that is the business model: Content captures attention, provides viewership and generates data (users’ statistics). Content is the starting and the end point of consumers’ journeys on social media. A video, an information post, a…
Privacy and partnerships: Apple WWDC 2020
Image Credit: Techcrunch In an industry which is not limited by any conventional restraints, Apple® has once again proven to the thought and market leader in promoting what it’s users want. It is not however what Apple® has promised to do, as its customer and user-centricity is quite legendary, rather it’s the timing of…
Is Security better in Cloud?
Introduction A little more than a decade ago when the term Cloud, Cloud computing, and other terms associated with enterprise IT systems started to become part of technical discussions and mainstream IT topics, most IT professionals and managers, let aside outsiders, acted more in disbelief than with optimism. The initial reactions to Cloud computing and…
Bias in AI: Cognitive bias in machine learning
Bias in AI: Cognitive bias in machine learning AI Bias: inherent flaw or mere side effect! Originally Published April 18, 2018 Introduction Artificial Intelligence is broadly referred to as any source, channel, device or usage application whereby tasks normally attributed to human intelligence, such as reasoning, interpretation of facts, storage and deduction of information…