New Balance will use new tech to spot the truly fashionable from normal dressers during New York Fashion Week.
The Boston-based athletic standout will use Real Time Exception Spotting on Sept. 6, which the brand described as “custom-built artificial intelligence technology to identify and recognize those who stand out from the crowd.” The label explained that its computer vision technology will be able to collect and show real-time fashion data on unsuspecting people who are identified as “defying the norm.”
And not only will the people be recognized for their fashion appeal, but New Balance will give them a pair of its Fresh Foam Cruz Nubuck sneakers, and the whole thing will be shown on a digital outdoor display.
There is plenty of evidence of Apple’s growing design prowess. Is this design differentiating the iPhone from other phones, as Steve Jobs hoped when he launched the A4?
Let’s consider FaceID as an example.
Apple might consider a large feature such as facial recognition as being something of interest. It might acquire one or more companies to assemble IP around at least some of the technology. Some technology will be implemented in software and others may be implemented in hardware. A block, such as the Neural Engine, is identified and it is designed. At the same time, other blocks, such as the Secure Enclave, would be identified as being useful, now processing the facial image data instead of fingerprints.
Sandra (San) Cannon’s job is to help the University of Rochester make better use of the mountains of data generated by hundreds of individual clinics, research labs, academic departments, and administrative offices.
“There are lots of places around the University where data live, where data should live, where data don’t live. People are really struggling to figure out how to do better with what we have—in keeping with Meliora—but not really understanding how all the pieces fit together in the data landscape,” says Cannon, the University’s first chief data officer and associate vice provost for data governanc
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman
from
Rob Wilbin writes:
I made this quiz where people try to guess ahead of time which results will replicate and which won’t in order to give then a more nuanced understanding of replication issues in psych. Based on this week’s Nature replication paper.
It includes quotes and p-values from the original study if people want to use them, and we offer some broader lessons on what kinds of things replicate and which usually don’t.
You can try the quiz yourself. Also, I have some thoughts about the recent replication paper and its reception—I’m mostly happy with how the paper was covered in the news media, but I think there are a few issues that were missed. I’ll discuss that another time. For now, enjoy the quiz.
A number of Facebook users were surprised Tuesday when some of their old posts disappeared — specifically, all the updates that had been cross-posted from Twitter. It turns out Twitter was surprised, too.
The bottom line: Facebook had announced in January that it was removing a feature that allowed people to cross-post updates from Twitter. As a result, Twitter deleted its Facebook platform app, which had been rendered useless when the changes went into effect earlier this month. But it had no idea old posts would go away once the app was removed.
As Navy Cyber Security Division director, Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett casts a wary eye over the rising importance of data as a weapon of war. Data is an ever-more-critical battlefield asset, given the rising internet of things, including a rapidly growing inventory of unmanned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets across the Navy. Protecting all that data from enemy exploitation represents a potentially massive cyber challenge.
This spring, the Navy announced “Compile to Combat in 24 Hours,” a pilot project to leverage web services and a new cloud architecture in the service of data security. C4ISRNET’s Adam Stone spoke to Barrett about the potential there, and about the emerging IT security landscape in a data-centric military.
We analyzed data from Priceonomics customer Raltin, a finance data company that combed through public insurance filings in eight states to find out if GEICO saves you money. We looked at the quoted rates for drivers with clean driving records and comparable policies to see how GEICO premiums compare to the median in each state.
We found that across the eight states we looked at, GEICO rates were almost 20% cheaper than the state median. In every state we looked at, GEICO was cheaper than the median and the discounts ranged from 12% to 34%.
Maybe it’s because I’m part of the cassette generation, but I’m just charmed by IBM researcher Mark Lantz’s ode to that great innovation in data storage, magnetic tape. What could be seen as an intermediate but mostly dead technology is actually quite alive and thriving.
Germany’s federal government will launch a new cybersecurity research agency with funding of €200 million over the next five years, the country’s defense and interior ministers announced on Wednesday.
The agency’s goal is to make Germany technologically independent of other powers with regards to cybersecurity. The country’s dependence on other nations like China or the United States has been an ongoing political issue, as Germany purchases almost all of what it needs from foreign companies and partners.
“We cannot just sit around watching sensitive information technology of high security relevance being controlled by third countries,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. Seehofer presented the new agency in a Wednesday press conference in Berlin alongside Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. “We have to secure and expand those key technologies ourselves.”
DARPA has presided over a number of major innovations, from stealth aircraft to the internet. Now, on its 60th birthday, the agency looks to the next generation of discovery.
UW biology professor Scott Freeman and his wife, Susan Leopold Freeman, donated trees from their conservation property on the Olympic peninsula for use in the building design. Susan is the granddaughter of Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the science of wildlife management, and she continues her family’s legacy as conservationists. A small grove of older trees on the Freemans’ property required thinning to strengthen their long-term root structure and prevent the loss of the trees in windstorms.
In 2016, our team from Skanska, the Freemans, UW biology department and Perkins+Will traveled to the community of Quilcene at the foot of the Olympic Mountains. There, we hand-selected the nine trees to harvest and mill to the specifications needed for the project. Each tree stood 150 feet tall, which matched the elevator core and full six stories of building height.
The NYU School of Medicine’s department of radiology and Facebook recently announced a new collaborative research project focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster.
Daniel Sodickson, MD, PhD, vice chair for research in radiology and director of the Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research at NYU School of Medicine, is one of the specialists leading that research. He spoke with Radiology Business about what led to the collaboration, why it’s so important to make MRI faster and how radiologists have adapted to AI over the years, among other topics.
UJIFILM Corporation(President: Kenji Sukeno) entered a joint research agreement with Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, Indiana USA), a leading advanced medical institute in the United States, to develop the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging diagnostic support systems, starting today.
Recent advances in diagnostic imaging system capabilities, such as multi-slice CT, has led to significant increases in the number of images that need to be interpreted. Hence, a solution to efficiently read and interpret a large number of images is required. The application of AI technology to support physicians by detecting suspicious lesions in images, comparing results with prior studies and the implementation of semi-automated reporting is expected to increase significantly the efficiency of diagnostic medical imaging in patient care.
Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Elizabeth Dupre
from
The Open Science Special Interest Group (SIG) is a relatively new organization within OHBM; however, it is responsible for several increasingly popular community initiatives including the hackathon and the open science room. As the Open Science SIG assumes new leadership this month, I sat down with the incoming chair, Kirstie Whitaker, to hear about her hopes for the upcoming year.