Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

Alexa Learns to Talk Like a Human With Whispers, Pauses, and Emotion

May 8, 2017May 8, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: TechCrunch/MSN, 4/29/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Amazon is furthering the humanization of its virtual assistant Alexa by equipping it with more emotion functionality. Developers can use a markup language called Speech Synthesis Markup…

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Improving Traffic Safety With a Crowdsourced Traffic Violation Reporting App

April 17, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: KAIST, 04/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Professor Uichin Lee and a research team at KAIST have developed and tested an app called Mobile Roadwatch. Mobile Roadwatch is a crowdsourced app that helps…

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Cyborgs at Work: Employees Get Implanted With Microchips

April 11, 2017April 10, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: CBS News/AP, 4/3/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Epicenter, a Swedish startup, is implanting microchips into their employees as replacements for swipe cards. Using Near Field Communication (NFC), the microchips provide identifying data…

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As Congress Repeals Internet Privacy Rules, Putting Your Options in Perspective

April 7, 2017April 10, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: National Public Radio, 3/28/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Rules made in October by the Federal Commercial Commission (FCC) are expected to be overturned by Congress and President Trump. These rules would have…

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Startup Matroid Uses AI to Pluck Images From Streams of Video

April 4, 2017April 3, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MSN/Bloomberg News, 3/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Reza Zadeh, a professor at Stanford University, has begun an artificial intelligence (AI) startup called Matroid whose software can detect specific people or objects in…

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Protecting Web Users’ Privacy

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 3/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary MIT and Stanford University researchers are developing Splinter, an encryption system that hides online database queries. Splinter splits up and encrypts the request for data,…

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Twitter Researchers Offer Clues for Why Trump Won

March 6, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Rochester, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang are using Twitter data to develop models that would correctly predict the result of the 2016 presidential election. They are…

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New Internet Security Device Launched to Safeguard Schools Against Child Abuse

February 27, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Plymouth University, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary The University of Plymouth has developed ICAlert, an easy-to-install device that monitors network traffic and sends alerts if users try to access dangerous web content…

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Tech Companies Are Building Tiny, Personal AIs to Keep Your Messages Private

February 21, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: Quartz, 2/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Technology companies, such as Facebook and Google, are developing artificial intelligence systems (AI) for mobile devices to improve the privacy of messaging applications. New AI innovations…

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Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Map Poverty

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Southampton, 2/07/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers, led by WorldPop at University of Southampton and Flowminder Foundation, have developed a way to measure poverty levels in Bangladesh. They combine anonymous…

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Twitter Data Could Improve Subway Operations During Big Events

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: University at Buffalo News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Research performed at the University at Buffalo has suggested that the swelling of subway usage during large events correlates closely with increases in Twitter activity.…

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Private Medical Data Is For Sale – and It’s Driving a Business Worth Billions

February 3, 2017February 2, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Guardian, 1/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Private medical data is a multi-million dollar industry that is growing rapidly, according to Adam Tanner at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. When medical…

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