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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…

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drawn heavily from battlefield lexicon in framing the fight against covid-19, but they too are at risk of leaning on outdated concepts and responses based on past crises that bear limited resemblance to the pandemic.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 :…

Amazon launched a $2 billion venture fund to invest in companies developing ways to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, marking the latest corporate effort to allocate major resources to combating climate change. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/23/1004361/amazon-creates-a-2-billion-climate-fund-as-it-struggles-to-cut-its-own-emissions/ Date : June 23, 2020 at 07:41PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter…

Businesses today have a wealth of information to draw upon. It comes from customer touchpoints, mobile interactions, internet-of-things (IoT) devices, e-commerce transactions, and many more sources. And corporate governance has made it easier to comply with data privacy rules, so organizations can be confident about the data quality. Source :…

This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Technology Review Insights examining how organizations are using AI today and planning to do so in the future. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/19/1004121/the-global-ai-agenda-the-middle-east-and-africa/ Date : June 19, 2020 at 10:52AM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this……

In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be out of sight of managers, but they are not out of mind. The upheaval has been accompanied by a reported spike in the use…

Le CEFRIO publie des fiches synthétisant des faits saillants de l’enquête NETendances. Ces fiches regroupent plusieurs informations sur le profil numérique des internautes québécois selon cinq groupes d’âges : 18 à 24 ans, 25 à 34 ans, 35 à 54 ans, 55 à 64 ans et 65 ans et plus….

Dans quelle mesure les adultes québécois sont-ils connectés? Quels usages font-ils des technologies liées au Web et au numérique? Est-ce que les cyberacheteurs sont plus nombreux? Afin de répondre à ces questions, le CEFRIO publie un portrait numérique de seize des régions administratives du Québec, compilé à partir des données…

Le Centre facilitant la recherche et l’innovation dans les organisations (CEFRIO) annonce qu’il mettra fin à l’ensemble de ses activités à compter du 30 juin prochain, soit trente-trois ans après sa constitution. Meneur d’enquêtes auprès du public et accompagnateur des entreprises dans l’adoption des technologies de l’information et des communications,…

An experimental tool helps researchers wade through the overwhelming amount of coronavirus literature to check whether emerging studies follow scientific consensus. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/29/1002349/ai-coronavirus-scientific-fact-checking/ Date : May 29, 2020 at 12:50PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Technology Review Insights examining how organizations are using AI today and planning to do so in the future. Featuring a global survey of 1,004 AI experts conducted in January and February 2020, it explores AI adoption,…

Dozens of states across the US are pinning their hopes on contact tracing to control the spread of the coronavirus and enable regions to reopen without sparking major resurgences of the outbreak. Source : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/16/1001787/why-contact-tracing-may-be-a-mess-in-america/ Date : May 16, 2020 at 11:36AM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email…

The story of blockchain market adoption closely resembles the path taken by other disruptive technologies: an initial industry explores what is possible, others give form and substance to what is plausible, and the marketplace helps define what is practical. It’s no longer a question of whether the technology will work—it…

The UK government has announced it will start inviting residents of the Isle of Wight to download its official covid-19 contact tracing app this week. The app launch will start with National Health Service and municipal staff tomorrow, with all of the island’s 140,000 residents set to get access from…

Income inequality is one of the overarching problems of economics. One of the most effective tools policymakers have to address it is taxation: governments collect money from people according to what they earn and redistribute it either directly, via welfare schemes, or indirectly, by using it to pay for public…

For all the progress that chatbots and virtual assistants have made, they’re still terrible conversationalists. Most are highly task-oriented: you make a demand and they comply. Some are highly frustrating: they never seem to get what you’re looking for. Others are awfully boring: they lack the charm of a human…

État des lieux quant aux services gouvernementaux en ligne Source : https://cefrio.qc.ca/fr/nouvelles/communique-netendances2019-services-gouvernementaux-en-ligne/ Date : April 28, 2020 at 09:37PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

The covid-19 pandemic is stretching hospital resources to the breaking point in nearly every country in the world. It is no surprise that many people hope  AI could speed up patient screening and ease the strain on clinical staff. But a study from Google Health—the first to look at the…

L’informaticienne Claire Mathieu nous explique comment la théorie des graphes peut nous aider à modéliser la propagation du Covid-19 et évaluer la pertinence de différents scénarios de déconfinement. Source : https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/des-graphes-pour-planifier-le-deconfinement Date : April 24, 2020 at 12:29PM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools,Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter…

Le sociologue Antonio A. Casilli nous livre son regard sur l’utilisation d’outils numériques par de nombreux pays pour accompagner le déconfinement. Source : https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/il-nexiste-pas-dapplication-capable-de-remplacer-une-politique-de-sante-publique Date : April 24, 2020 at 05:21PM Tag(s) : Laboratoire de recherche Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print