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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Manoj Sahi. There was a time when raising the initial funds to develop an innovative idea into a commercial product was an immensely painful process. Thanks to the internet and the concept of crowdfunding, life has become a bit easier for innovators and entrepreneurs. Crowdfunding is also compelling to venture capitalists, and it’s no wonder that many VC firms are turning to crowdfunding platforms to access new deal flow. The crowdfunding industry has been growing rapidly and entrepreneurs in the robotics industry have already started getting a taste of success on various crowdfunding platforms like ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on datawookie. [This article was first published on R on datawookie, 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. Private Security is a big industry in South Africa. Most Private Security companies promise to provide a rapid response to every callout generated by any of their customers. There is a delicate balance between the number of response vehicles and the number of customers (and the frequency of their callouts!), ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chevell Parker. Introduction Generating a word cloud (also known as a tag cloud) is a good way to mine internet text. Word (or tag) clouds visually represent the occurrence of keywords found in internet data such as Twitter feeds. In the visual representation, the importance of each keyword is denoted by the font size or font color. View more Problem Solvers posts You can easily generate Word clouds by using the Python language. Now that Python has been integrated into the SAS® System (via the SASPy package), you can take advantage of the capabilities of both ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. To address technology skill gaps and equip the workforce of the future, Amazon Web Services (AWS) established the eKasi initiative. eKasi helps youths, small businesses, and students in South Africa build their technology skills and develop business solutions for the world of tomorrow.Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), South African leaders identified addressing the technology skills gap as critical for their economic development. The AWS eKasi initiative helps build technology skills that are sustainable, with skills transferable to the real world being paramount. Built ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Bruce Daley. Should we be worried about the future of artificial intelligence? Some of the biggest names in science and technology have recently made headlines by suggesting that yes, we should. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has joined this school of thought, saying he is “in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence,” and predicting that in mere decades, AI could become “strong enough to be a concern.” Summoning the Demon Gates’ comments echo what several other forward thinkers have said about this topic. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Telsa Motors, SolarCity, and PayPal has ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. Microsoft caused a stir last week during the launch of Windows 10. The company unexpectedly announced a holographic smart glass called HoloLens, which will be launched in conjunction with Windows 10, later in 2015. Interestingly, Microsoft calls their new product the world’s first holographic computing platform, rather than an augmented reality (AR) platform. It’s clever marketing from Microsoft, which is trying hard to score points against Google and Apple on the innovation tally. In the same week HoloLens was announced, Google officially announced that they are shutting down the Glass Explorer program, but ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Higher education institutions are rapidly digitizing to meet industry demands for new models of teaching, learning and research. Those institutions seeking to build capacity for long-term innovation are increasingly moving to the cloud to compete in this evolving environment, as institutions across the U.S. continue to look to Oracle Cloud to increase business efficiency and improve student outcomes. Oracle brings unparalleled advantages and opportunities to the Higher Education market, including the ability to reduce operational and student costs and help ensure fiscal sustainability. Universities recently adopting Oracle Cloud include: Ithaca College, a private liberal arts ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Michigan State University, a leading higher education and research institution, has engaged Oracle to replace its mainframe student information system infrastructure. This modernization project will help the university address challenges around fiscal sustainability, transforming the student experience and building capacity for long-term institutional innovation. To reach these goals, the university charted an incremental path to the cloud and will be implementing several Oracle Cloud solutions, including Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP). Michigan State University also selected Exadata Cloud at Customer to operate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions in one hybrid cloud environment. “Our partnership with Michigan State ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Maysam Ali. More than 400 regional and local organizations working to address homelessness in the United States are using a new tool by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to better understand and address the homelessness challenge. Those agencies, also known as “Continuums of Care (CoCs),” can use the tool to visualize the situation they are helping address and optimize their responses. HUD’s new tool gives communities insights into homelessness services gaps and trends. The new strategy and analysis tool, Stella, pulls from a comprehensive dataset that all CoCs ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. From November 4-8, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host its first annual “AWS Compliance Week: Achieving Cloud Compliance and Security in the AWS Cloud” to help customers navigate and accelerate their cloud adoption plans for regulated workloads and sensitive data. The five-part, week-long webinar series will highlight how AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are purpose-built to help customers realize cloud benefits when working with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), defense data, export-controlled data, and criminal justice information (CJI). Webinars will show how to use AWS NIST Quick Starts to ... Read More