Tag Archives for Innovation
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
A new paper published in Nature today describes how the artificially intelligent system that defeated Go grandmaster Lee Sedol in 2016 got its digital ass kicked by a new-and-improved version of itself. Read More
No more scars: NUS student designs cooking tools for the visually disabled
The event here, organised by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), was one of the international qualifying events. A project on “electronic skin” gloves that translate sign language into speech – by Mr Kaushik Parida, 28, a research associate at NTU’s … Continue reading
Ride and Read: University of Windsor library gets new study bikes
The University of Windsor’s Leddy Library is one of the first academic libraries in Canada to offer students a chance to ride while they read. The library is now home to three new exercise study-bikes that allow students to study … Continue reading
Demco Software transforms library event marketing with DiscoverLocal
Demco Software today highlighted the far-reaching capabilities of DiscoverLocal, its latest innovation that gives libraries priority in local search results. Read More
Collaborators and Partners: Librarians and Digital Scholarship
This poster will explore a digital scholarship project on Puerto Rican citizenship, entitled Puerto Rico Citizenship Archives: A History of the Extension of U.S. Citizenship to Puerto Rico. The project is intended to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Puerto … Continue reading
Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes its first flight
Facebook’s drone fleet will use “free space laser communications” to communicate between individual aircraft, and radio technology to beam the internet signal from the fleet to receivers located on the ground. The laser technology delivers data 10 times faster than … Continue reading