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Patrick Meier: Summary of Recent Accomplishments

Advanced Cyber/IO, Drones & UAVs, IO Deeds of Peace, IO Mapping, IO Sense-Making, IO Technologies
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

QED – Goodbye Doha, Hello Adventure!

EXTRACT

I joined the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) well over 3 years ago with a very specific mission and mandate: to develop and deploy next generation humanitarian technologies. So I built the Institute’s Social Innovation Program from the ground up and recruited the majority of the full-time experts (scientists, engineers, research assistants, interns & project manager) who have become integral to the Program’s success.

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Jean Lievens: StephenHawking on Fearing Capitalism

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.”

Phi Beta Iota: Hawking evidently has not calculated the true cost of shifting to a robot economy. He is right about the meta question – how we govern ourselves — with or without integrity — matters greatly.

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Patrick Meier: Automating Visual Heuristics — Human Clicks Train Computer Algorithms on Big Data (Aerial)

Drones & UAVs
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Using Computer Vision to Analyze Big (Aerial) Data from UAVs During Disasters

Recent scientific research has shown that aerial imagery captured during a single 20-minute UAV flight can take more than half-a-day to analyze. We flew several dozen flights during the World Bank’s humanitarian UAV mission in response to Cyclone Pam earlier this year. The imagery we captured would’ve taken a single expert analyst a minimum 20 full-time workdays to make sense of. In other words, aerial imagery is already a Big Data problem. So my team and I are using human computing (crowdsourcing), machine computing (artificial intelligence) and computer vision to make sense of this new Big Data source.

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Antechinus: Librem 15 – Trusted Laptop

IO Tools
Antechinus
Antechinus

The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. All other laptops use hardware chips coupled with software that can betray you. News stories have shown how these chips can surreptitiously transmit voice, networking, picture or video signals. Other chips are used to install spyware, malware or viruses. These built-in vulnerabilities can turn “your” computer into “their” computer. Only by selecting each and every chip in our Librem laptops can we guarantee your privacy, security and freedom are protected.