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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

CTOvision

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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DARPA Open Catalog: A repository of DARPA-sponsored software and publications

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley DARPA funds research in many areas and their wide and deep connections in academia, industry and with many private citizens means much of this is already shared. But in a continuing effort to find better ways to share what can be shared they have just built an online catalog for sharable code and peer-reviewed research.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. That’s why critics say these programs are always listening; if they weren’t, they’d never know when you need them. Apply the technology to voice and the pool gets even larger.

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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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Students of color are getting flagged to their teachers because testing software can’t see them

The Verge

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Proctorio, and other programs like it, is designed to keep an eye on students while they’re taking tests.

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO Business Intelligence

While the number of data science degree programs are increasing at a rapid clip, they aren’t necessarily what organizations look for when seeking data scientists. A PhD proves a candidate is capable of doing deep research on a topic and disseminating information to others. Data science jobs. Data science tools.

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