Rather than regard Facebook as a social network, it makes more sense to view the company as being in the business of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Tag Archives: CBC Radio
Prediction of crime using twitter data
Melissa Tobin and I discuss the prediction of crime using twitter data and the role this data could play in police planning, public policy, and public service delivery.
California Department of Motor Vehicles to regulate self-driving vehicles by 2015
My discussion with Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio Vancouver’s Early Edition regarding efforts by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to regulate self-driving vehicles by 2015.
NSA TURBINE
Discussing the NSA TURBINE initiative with Rick Cluff on CBC Radio Vancouver’s Early Edition
Bitcoin: Bubble or Bank?
Call it a currency without a country. Bitcoins … digital tokens that are traded over the Internet … can’t be stuffed in your wallet, or crammed in your pocket. But that hasn’t stopped the virtual coinage from sending ripples through the financial world. Early this year you could buy a bitcoin online for $15. But its value has surged — spiking upwards of $250 this week.
With more and more people looking to shelter themselves from a jittery global economy an increasing number of these virtual bucks are finding real-world homes. Just ask Alex Likhtenstein. He co-owns EVR Bar in Manhattan, and allows people to pay their tabs in bitcoin.
For more on this, we were joined by Jesse Hirsh. He is a technology correspondent for CBC. He’s also co-founder of Academy of the Impossible, a peer-to-peer learning facility in Toronto.