Tag: education

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Cloud Inventor and Cloud Explorer courses of AWS Educate, built for students aged 14-18*, are now available in five additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. With the addition of these languages, more students than ever have access to content that will introduce them to cloud-based concepts and technologies.With AWS Educate, students can start their cloud journey and learn about the tech concepts behind things like building and sharing games online, or expand their knowledge with more in-depth challenges on concepts like variables and big data. Students can build ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . Numerous customer service applications – from manufacturing to order fulfillment – require recognition of faces and objects. Customer service robots need to recognize faces and associate them with customer data to provide personalized assistance. Tasks that are simple for any human child had traditionally been quite difficult for robots. Cloud-Based Recognition Platforms Today, cloud-based systems like Amazon Rekognition enable enterprise robots to interpret their surroundings more accurately. Rekognition uses the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams robot OS (ROS) extension to stream live video data from the robots of AWS RoboMaker subscribers. It then identifies and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Have a great idea for how Amazon Alexa can help your education technology product better serve students, teachers, administrators, or parents? Enter the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge today! In collaboration with SXSW EDU, this contest is designed to find the best application of voice technology in education and is open to all US-based education technology companies. We’re looking for your best Alexa skill ideas around one of four themes: Home-School Connection: Extends learning beyond the walls of the classroom and helps students learn at home. Accessibility: Makes learning more accessible ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kip-yego; Choosing the right data management solutions as the foundation for AI is crucial. Enabling AI optimization and usability is paramount, as is easy scalability to accommodate the increasing amount of data used by AI applications. This is true no matter where you store your data: on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.Yet, as businesses proceed on their journey to AI, they are not only confronted with evaluating these attributes, but also encounter additional challenges due to a lack of streamlined testing and upgrade capabilities. Challenges ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. During the months of August and September, Oracle Volunteers worldwide Focus on Education by finding or creating volunteer opportunities with their favorite education-focused nonprofit or public school. One educational nonprofit that is near and dear to our hearts is Oracle Education Foundation. Oracle Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and staffed by Oracle employees. Its mission is to help young people develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems. In the Foundation’s program, Oracle Volunteers coach students ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. CDSM Interactive Solutions Ltd (CDSM), founded in 1998, is a multi-faceted EdTech company that provides bespoke e-learning services and Thinqi, a next generation learning management system (LMS), to the state education sector. We spent some time with two of CDSM’s more senior colleagues, Steve Finch, Head of Marketing, and Darren Wallace, Chief Technical Officer, both of whom have been with CDSM since the early 2000s.Finch says CDSM’s mission has remained the same over the years, “We want to improve the life chances of young people by providing equal access to high ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ari Lamstein. [This article was first published on R – AriLamstein.com, 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. I recently became an RStudio Certified Trainer, and thought that it might interest the broader R Community to learn about this new program. For those who don’t know, RStudio has recently put together a process to independently verify that R trainers (a) are proficient with the Tidyverse and (b) know modern ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. I'm old enough to remember when USA Today began publication in the early 1980s. As a teenager who was not particularly interested in current events, I remember scanning each edition for the USA Today Snapshots, a mini infographic feature that presented some statistic in a fun and interesting way. Back then, I felt that these stats made me a little bit smarter for the day. I had no reason to question the numbers I saw, nor did I have the tools, skill or data access to check their work. Today I still enjoy the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Page Cvelich. Each week in August, the Work/Life Team has invited educational experts to address concerns parents have in the process of choosing a school. For our third blogpost in this series, we have invited our experts to respond to the following questions: What factors should I consider when determining best fit for my child? If I could talk to a few parents who have children attending the school, what questions would be good to ask? From Dr. Sharon Leuenberger, Director of Testing at 3-C Family Services: What factors should be considered really depends on the needs ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. IMAGINE: A Better World, A Global Nonprofit Conference brought together hundreds of nonprofits from around the world dedicated to tackling the growing challenges our world faces every day. From fighting climate change to finding cures to saving animals, nonprofits are seeking new ways to combine their passion and purpose with technology. Through the two days of keynotes, sessions, and networking opportunities, attendees uncovered opportunities to collaborate to make the world a better place. Read on below for the top ten highlights coming out of the conference: Best Friends Animal Society Goes All-In ... Read More