IBM‘s Watson, an artificial intelligence computer system which famously defeated two all-time Jeopardy! quiz show champions, may soon go from playing games to answering questions in the workplace and call centers as IBM looks to modify the technology for business. Watson was powered by distributed computing technologies such as Apache Hadoop, which was used forRead… Read more »
Dear CTOvision.com reader, If you are a professional with experience in cyber security and federal IT we would appreciate some help with a research project. The results of this research will be made public (you can be anonymous if you wish). The goal of this research is to provide helpful insights and inputs to theRead… Read more »
Image via CrunchBase “The system can tell that a man comes by a preschool every day at recess,” an executive at a video monitoring software firm once explained to me. “It can even tell that he’s smiling. But it can’t tell whether the smile is creepy or not,” meaning that current Video Content Analysis technology,Read… Read more »
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According to a review recently put out by the the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) was faced with a riddle. In recent years, violent crime and assaults on officers have been declining, training has been adapted to focus more on deescalating conflicts and avoiding physical confrontations, the department procured andRead… Read more »
With this post I want to provide a quick update on two firms I know and advise: Triumfant and Invincea. Both have been mentioned by me on this site before and if you are a security professional I bet you have already spent time learning about them. Both firms are making a positive difference inRead… Read more »
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Photo credit: Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo Do you have a need to index and search pictures and video? If you are working for any of the intelligence agencies, a police department, or any other security force that involves video and photo, you may. You may even have a need for this outside of the intelligence/security realm.Read… Read more »
Businesses on the Internet today can rise and fall with the power of search. To survive in this search-based economy, a business must be able to be found easily on google search, have a location in Bing maps to navigate too, and a phone number that can be easily brought up in a yellow-pages query.Read… Read more »
Hadoop and the many capabilities associated with it (including Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr) is really the rage. Enterprises with big data challenges, researchers with massive data sets and organizations seeking to make sense over seemingly unbounded data are learning how to use those many related technologies to solve problemsRead… Read more »