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Microsoft Project Oxford API (Face API)

posted by Unknownon 8:46 pm

Face Detection: The Face API provides high preciseness face location sightion that may detect up to sixty four human faces in a picture. Face detection may be done by uploading a complete JPEG file or by specifying a computer address of Associate in Nursing existing JPEG image on the online.
The detected faces area unit came with rectangles (left, top, dimension and height) indicating the placement of faces within the image in pixels. It can be considered as a case of Object-class-Detection.
Face detection includes gender age etc can be done through state of Art algorithms, genetic algorithms, and the eigen-face Techniques.  These algorithms process face images and apply the operation [.....]

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6 ECOMMERCE SPRING CLEANING TIPS

posted by Unknownon 9:59 pm

Website developers, ecommerce experts and SEO pros discuss some simple ways to dust off, declutter and freshen up your Web or ecommerce site. Ah spring, a time of renewal. A time to take stock and get rid of the things that you no longer need or use and replace them with things that you now do. This applies not just to your home but to your business. And if you own or manage a Web or ecommerce site, doing a bit of spring cleaning is critical – for [.....]

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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR SAMSUNG'S APPEAL IN APPLE DESIGN PATENTS CASE

posted by Unknownon 9:49 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court has given Samsung a last chance to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Apple for allegedly infringing its iPhone design patents. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear part of Samsung's appeal of an award of US$399 million in damages for infringement of three design patents, which cover the face and rounded bezel design of the Apple iPhone and the grid of icons on the phone's home screen. Samsung, with support from Google, Facebook and other tech companies, had asked the Supreme Court to take a [.....]

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CIOs get more involved with mobile app development

posted by Unknownon 3:57 pm

It isn't only customer-facing mobile apps that are changing how work gets done at enterprises. These days, the need for mobile apps for employees and clients is also growing, and CIOs are finding they need to step up to the plate and take the lead on mobile app development. Take Craig Richardville, CIO of Carolinas HealthCare System, for example. He oversees multiple teams, each focused on a different clientele (patients, healthcare providers, employees, etc.) and each co-chaired by a business unit leader. In this issue of CIO Decisions, find [.....]

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3D printing technology is at a crossroads

posted by Unknownon 3:55 pm

There's been a lot of hype around 3D printing technology lately, with commentators using labels like "the next Industrial Revolution." Does the technology stand up to the buzz? Harvey Koeppel, SearchCIO columnist and former CIO, says yes -- and even believes that this current hype vastly underestimates the technology's potential impact. As cases in point, Koeppel lays out several industries that are currently being transformed by 3D printing technology, including aerospace, commercial manufacturing, and medicine and life sciences. In this SearchCIO handbook, Koeppel shares 12 tips for how CIOs can seize opportunities that arise daily from 3D printing technology. In our second piece, CTO Niel Nickolaisen makes the case for how to use 3D printing and other emerging [.....]

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Private mobile network powers Ocado’s robotic warehouse

posted by Unknownon 3:55 pm

Since its foundation back in 2000, online groceries deliverer Ocado has distinguished itself from competitors by having no high street presence – relying exclusively on its network of warehouses and picking centres to meet customers’ needs. The firm has always seen itself as an IT business with a retailer attached – according to technology director Paul Clarke, who previously oversaw a project to build a Google-based business intelligence dashboard to meet specific internal needs. But as more people shop online, Ocado has turned to its warehousing systems as ripe for a makeover. Currently, it relies on boxes travelling around its warehouses – often over great distances – with humans filling them as they go. However, it is rapidly running out of [.....]

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Google buys UK artificial intelligence start-up DeepMind for £400m

posted by Unknownon 1:07 pm

A former child chess prodigy and computer game designer from London has sold his company to Google for around £300m in one of the Internet giant’s largest European acquisitions. Demis Hassabis, a computer scientist, is understood to have struck the deal with Google for his secretive start-up business Deep Mind Technologies, which specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) for computers. Hassabis, 37, has built the company by bringing together neuroscientists and computer engineers in an effort to use technology and medical research to help machines to mimic the brain’s [.....]

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Sacked for breaking code of conduct: Rivalry between Bletchley Park charities tumbles out of control

posted by Unknownon 1:05 pm

A long-running battle between rival charities promoting the legacy of Britain’s wartime code breakers has degenerated into a bitter dispute which has seen an elderly tour guide sacked and calls for a boycott of Bletchley Park. The row centres on a controversial decision by the Second World War code-breaking complex to stop its tour guides from visiting the neighbouring National Museum of Computing (NMOC). The museum houses a rebuilt Colossus machine – the world’s first electronic computer, designed and built together with the Tunny machine to crack encrypted [.....]

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Spying Birds': Angry Birds website hacked after GCHQ revelations over 'leaky apps'

posted by Unknownon 1:03 pm

The website of game developer Rovio has been hacked, with a picture of the company’s best-selling Angry Birds game replaced with one entitled Spying Birds and featuring the logo of the National Security Agency (NSA). "The defacement was caught in minutes and corrected immediately," said Saara Bergstrom, a spokeswoman for the company. "The end-user data was in no risk at any point." The attack comes days after documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggested that the American spy agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, used the game and other “leaky [.....]

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Paper: Facebook's new app curates news stories from old media in 'distraction free' format

posted by Unknownon 1:01 pm

Facebook has announced a new mobile app named Paper that could see the social network control a significant portion of the digital news market. The app will launch on 3 February for the iPhone in the US and promises a “distraction-free layout” by pulling in new stories from various media publications - both the established and the “emerging”. Working with human editors, Paper will curate various sections (including sport, food, science and photography) whilst also allowing users to customize their own feed. Traditional updates and pictures from users’ [.....]

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