Étiquette : Laboratoire de recherche
DeVinci Durable : l’association tournée vers l’environnement
Cette association regrouppe des étudiants désireux de devenir acteurs dans le domaine du développement durable. Leurs objectifs ? Faire prendre conscience des probélamtiques environementales. L’association organise des journées à thème pour sensibiliser le Pôle au développement durable. Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1cC-rLdSSU Date : August 13, 2020 at 09:57AM Tag(s) : Laboratoire…
What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong
In the first of a four-part series on FaceID, host Jennifer Strong explores the false arrest of Robert Williams by police in Detroit. The odd thing about Willliams’s ordeal wasn’t that police used face recognition to ID him—it’s that the cops told him about it. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/12/1006636/face-recognition-algorithm-false-arrest-police-robert-williams/ Date :…
Des outils pour «prévoir» les feux de forêt ?
Ses 15 millions d’hectares de forêt font de la France le troisième pays le plus boisé d’Europe. Pour protéger cette richesse, les scientifiques du laboratoire Science pour l’environnement, basé en Corse, développent des outils d’aide à la décision pour la lutte contre les incendies. Source : https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/des-outils-pour-prevoir-les-feux-de-foret Date : August…
The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy.
The European Union has long been a trendsetter in privacy regulation. Its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and stringent antitrust laws have inspired new legislation around the world. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-trust-trusts-project-privacy-policy-opinion/ Date : August 11, 2020 at 09:45PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp…
DigiTeam : l’association qui facilite la transition numérique
Parce que le digital est au coeur des cursus du Pôle Léonard de Vinci, DigiTeam est là pour aider les étudiants (et l’administration) à comprendre, saisir et utiliser tous les outils numétriques qui leur seront necessaires dans leurs études et dans leur vie professionnelle. Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ8OE5aeSDg Date : August…
La visioconférence, 14e défi de la cybersécurité ?
Le confinement a donné un essor considérable aux outils de visioconférence, essor qui s’est accompagné de nombreux problèmes de confidentialité. Directeur du Groupement de recherche (GDR) Sécurité informatique, Gildas Avoine tire les leçons de cette évolution soudaine et livre des pistes pour améliorer la sécurité de ces outils. Source :…
AI is learning when it should and shouldn’t defer to a human
The context: Studies show that when people and AI systems work together, they can outperform either one acting alone. Medical diagnostic systems are often checked over by human doctors, and content moderation systems filter what they can before requiring human assistance. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/05/1006003/ai-machine-learning-defer-to-human-expert/ Date : August 5, 2020 at…
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/31/1005824/decolonial-ai-for-everyone/ Date : July 31, 2020 at 12:38PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
Last week, European Union leaders approved the most aggressive climate-change plan in history. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/31/1005819/how-an-eu-tax-could-slash-emissions-far-beyond-its-borders/ Date : July 31, 2020 at 11:39AM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Chinese and Russian hackers were just sanctioned by Europe for the first time
The European Union imposed its first-ever sanctions for cyberattacks on Thursday, targeting Russian, Chinese, and North Korean groups connected to several major hacking incidents. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/30/1005822/chinese-and-russian-hackers-were-just-sanctioned-by-europe-for-the-first-time/ Date : July 30, 2020 at 10:40PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images
In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the thought for as long as an essay with…
Russian hackers have been accused of targeting covid-19 vaccine researchers
Russian hackers targeted UK, US, and Canadian researchers developing coronavirus vaccines, according to a report from the United Kingdom, American, and Canadian intelligence services. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/16/1005336/russian-hackers-have-been-accused-of-targeting-covid-19-vaccine-researchers/ Date : July 16, 2020 at 05:03PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Biden steps up his clean-energy plan, in a nod to climate activists
Joe Biden has raised the ambitions of his climate plan, in a clear sign his campaign is responding to demands for greater action among the progressive flank of his party. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/14/1005197/biden-steps-up-his-clean-energy-plan-in-a-nod-to-climate-activists/ Date : July 14, 2020 at 11:36PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter…
A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackers
The context: One of the greatest unsolved flaws of deep learning is its vulnerability to so-called adversarial attacks. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/10/1005048/ai-deep-learning-safe-from-hackers-adversarial-attacks/ Date : July 10, 2020 at 04:17PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Criminal charges reveal the identity of the “invisible god” hacker
A notorious hacker who made an estimated $1.5 million by stealing information from more than 300 companies and governments in 44 countries has been identified as a 37-year-old man from Kazakhstan. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/07/1004870/criminal-charges-reveal-the-identity-of-the-invisible-god-hacker/ Date : July 7, 2020 at 11:54PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook…
Beyond the AI hype cycle: Trust and the future of AI
There’s no shortage of promises when it comes to AI. Some say it will solve all problems while others warn it will bring about the end of the world as we know it. Both positions regularly play out in Hollywood plotlines like Westworld, Carbon Black, Minority Report, Her, and Ex…
Covid-19 spurs collaboration in telehealth
The coronavirus pandemic has led to enhanced health-care collaboration, innovation, and increased use of digital technologies. Telehealth enables doctors to safely connect with patients virtually and monitor them remotely, whether in different cities or down the hall. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/29/1004513/covid-19-spurs-collaboration-in-telehealth/ Date : June 29, 2020 at 07:29PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire…
Pandemic reveals opportunities for 5G connectivity
5G cellular technology, which has been promised to provide a connective fabric that will cover the globe in a seamless digital experience, is starting to take shape. But the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 that has forced hundreds of millions of people to work and socialize remotely has made it clear…
Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court
In 2015, alarmed by an escalating civil war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia led an air campaign against the country to defeat what it deemed a threatening rise of Shia power. The intervention, launched with eight other largely Sunni Arab states, was meant to last only a few weeks, Saudi officials…
Pandenomics: How open data is guiding public policy
Generals always fight the last war, runs the military aphorism. Politicians have also drawn heavily from battlefield lexicon in framing the fight against covid-19, but they too are at risk of leaning on outdated concepts and responses based on past crises that bear limited resemblance to the pandemic. Source :…