Alizeh Kohari / Rest of World: How researchers are using AI to analyze the undeciphered ancient script of the Indus Valley Civilization, and the challenges of deciphering long-lost languages — Scholars have spent a century trying to decipher ancient Indus script. Machine learning may finally help make sense of it all.
Social media
Digital Evolution Whether it’s family, friends or work colleagues, we all inevitably lose touch with our various networks – it could be argued this is a completely natural process, whereby over time we align ourselves with individuals we have more in common with, or perhaps who are more relevant given our current circumstances; either way, […]
Curated, Digital Content for Everyone
Curated Information Feeds For a good few years now, I’ve actively modified who I follow, and what updates I receive digitally through social and news media – with Facebook, this generally means choosing who I want to receive updates from, and in what order (or at all), which allows me to maintain ‘friendship’ with individuals […]
Reuters News & the Semantic Web
As time goes on, i’m becoming more and more confident of the potential of the semantic web – typically, I tend to be a ‘second mover’ when it comes to new technologies or trends, I’ll usually let someone else be the early adopter, or at least remain skeptical until a quorum has emerged. But with […]
Data Privacy Musings, February 2016
The global Data Privacy landscape is currently a fairly chaotic, uncertain place – certainly the Snowden revelations, along with Wikileaks and similar have sparked all sorts of questions around who has access to what; global surveillance, monitoring and encryption have been hot topics for Silicon Valley and global governmental leaders There is no ‘compromise’ in encryption […]
Identity Access Management on the Blockchain
I’ve been looking at Blockchain technology recently (with some level of confusion), in regard to it’s potential application to IAM, and more generally around the cryptocurrencies that have emerged following Bitcoins success – it still remains to be seen how the Bitcoin implementation will continue operating once all coins have been mined, as the model […]
Social Collaboration
Does your business have a social network? Is it an Enterprise social network? What collaboration tools do you have, are they the same as social tools? There are a number of different ways to describe social and collaborative tools, and they are often used interchangeably. This is fine in a general sense, as the two […]