Day: October 7, 2014

Leisure Music

‘Guitaring’ Trends: I Express Because I can — As doublespoken by a Wannabe IT Business Manager

    Access to the internet, along with social media, has gradually enabled us to engage in self-learning. The Guitar seems to be the very first instrument that everyone picks up. I do not wonder why, so I do not complain. Anyhow, with increased availability and decreased costs in media and communication, the so-called “passionate” […]

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Google Lets Connected Devices Commune Without Specialized Apps— By Jon Gold, Network World (10/02/14)

–Contributed by Dr. Ajey Kumar, Assistant Professor, SCIT  A new initiative by Google seeks to form an open standard for the Internet of Things, dubbed the Physical Web by the company’s Chrome team. The concept involves a subscribed discovery service that allows smart devices to distribute URLs to other smart devices in a given area. Users […]

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Online Crowd Can Guess What You Want to Watch or Buy — By Hal Hodson, New Scientist (10/02/14)

  –Contributed By Dr. Ajey Kumar , Assistant Professor , SCIT Crowds of online workers can be used to guess human preferences where there is little data to work with, according to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Peter Organisciak and colleagues. The researchers hired crowdsourcing workers on Mechanical Turk and had them make personal recommendations. They […]

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