Tag: education

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Daniel Bernao. What if someone in a hospital room or public train station suddenly falls due to a stroke or other health issue? An automated monitoring system like AWS DeepLens, a deep learning-enabled video camera for developers, could detect such falls and contact emergency services in a timely manner. Using AWS DeepLens, I created the following solution depicted end-to-end in the below diagram. Detecting people when they fall using live monitoring through an AWS DeepLens device is done through classification. The video capture from AWS DeepLens is analyzed frame-by-frame. Using a transformation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In July, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new contest in collaboration with SXSW EDU designed to find the best application of voice technology in education. Our challenge to the EdTech world? Tell us how you would use Alexa to transform education.From tutoring help and language learning programs to teaching guides and career planning tools – we’ve been amazed by the creativity and potential impact of the ideas EdTechs sent us. Submissions focused on challenges like how to increase student learning, improve accessibility, save educators time, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Jonathan Rüth. At CODE University of Applied Sciences, we aim to educate the digital pioneers of tomorrow. For us, that means teaching talented students from around the world modern digital product development using real-world technology and challenges.One of our initiatives to work toward this mission is the Better Future Lab (BFL) – the Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) at CODE. A CIC is a long term, public-private collaboration between a public sector organization and Amazon Web Services (AWS). CICs serve to help solve challenges that will address, over time and across geographies, the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Taha A. Kass-Hout, MD, MS. By Dr. Taha A. Kass-Hout, Arun Ravi, Melanie Kaplan, and Pat CombesImagine: Transforming the patient and caregiver experience by streamlining health providers and administrative staff interactions and calculating risk score and clinical decision support systems to offer clinicians actionable insights at the point of care. Establishing healthcare data interoperability interfaces, like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), can help empower patients and improve their care. Backed by the nonprofit HL7, the FHIR application programming interface (API) facilitates data exchange between enterprises, like health systems, and uses medical claims ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Business Science. [This article was first published on business-science.io, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Moving into 2020, three things are clear – Organizations want Data Science, Cloud, and Apps. Here are the Top 5 essential skills for Data Scientists that need to build and deploy applications in 2020 and beyond. This is part of a series of articles on Data Science key skills for 2020: Top 20 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. This week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced two new AWS Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs) in Bahrain at the University of Bahrain (UoB) and at Bahrain Polytechnic (BP). Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, made the announcement at the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Both CICs will be supported by Tamkeen, a public authority in Bahrain focused on workforce development.A CIC is a long-term, public-private collaboration between a public sector organization and AWS that serves as a customer innovation capability to solve public ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia announced the launch of its Cyber Ready Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC). The CIC will focus on cloud-based cyber security solutions, enabling students to tackle cyber issues in the real world through innovative cloud computing approaches and emerging technology. RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President Martin Bean CBE announced the news at AWS re:Invent 2019. The Vice-Chancellor said RMIT has a history of “working closely with governments, industry, and partners around the world to close skills gaps and make a positive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good finalists At the re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good, more than 150 re:Invent attendees put their minds together to develop solutions for real-world challenges from four nonprofits: Best Friends Animal Society, SkyTruth, Urban Institute, and Vibrant Emotional Health. The winning team pitched a solution on how to build personalized safety plans for people calling Vibrant Emotional Health’s Lifeline, a national suicide prevention help line. Winning team members Edward Fox, Hamid Jizan, Joe Hillhouse, Rick Hoxie, and Vinit Patankar built a solution ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. “Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it.” ―Albert Schweitzer These sentiments underly everything we do in the Oracle Volunteering program. Every day, we support employees to design and implement projects to advance education, protect the environment, and strengthen communities. Today, we celebrate Oracle Volunteers as part of International Volunteer Day (IVD).  Established by the United Nations in 1985, IVD applauds volunteers and their commitment to serving diverse communities and causes ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. From a new podcast to challenge winners, read on for the government, education, and nonprofit highlights from the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector Breakfast at re:Invent.Government FINRA CAT powered by AWS: FINRA CAT, LLC, a subsidiary of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), announced it selected AWS as its cloud provider for the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The CAT will allow regulators to improve securities market surveillance by creating an extensive audit trail of order information for all U.S. equity securities and listed options across ... Read More