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Machine Learning and the Future of Authentication
Look what machines are teaching themselves to do: Recognize cats on the internet Tell when people are lying about pain Diagnose diseases Be educational coaches & tutors All courtesy of what is called “machine learning”: the … -
Futurist Friday: Bossy Wearable Tech
We humans use technology–digital or analog–to outsource our brainwork. Calculators mean we don’t have to remember the times table anymore; calendars track our schedules; Diigo means I don’t have to remember where I … -
Futurist Friday: Virtual Reality & the Museum of the Future
The immersive virtual museum experience (at least the visual dimension) is creeping closer and closer. Your Futurist Friday assignment: this 2 min video by Europeana, using Oculus’ head-mounted display to tour a 3D model of the … -
Futurist Friday: Flocks of Autonomous Flying Drones
Whether or not Amazon overcomes the difficulties of instituting drone deliver service in the US, drones have a bright future with a variety of applications. They are being used to survey archaeological sites, escort children to the bus … -
Futurist Friday: Visitor Analytics
Your Futurist Friday assignment is this very brief (1.58 min) video from Cisco about using Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) analytics to locate and track every wireless device in a venue. While the commentary in this piece is about … -
Revisiting the Intelligent City
This is the first in a series of “Throwback Thursdays,” revisiting content from the Blog that continues to resonate with recent news. A story from last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums on how … -
Futurist Friday: Robots for Humanity
Yah, I know, I know. The last “Futurist Friday” was about robots, too. But this is too interesting to pass up. I’ve written about instances in which robots are replacing human labor. But as I read more, it seems like the … -
Too Fast to Go Slow
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is one of three museums enrolled in the third round of Innovation Lab for Museums—a MetLife funded program offered by EmcArts in partnership with CFM. Hull-House has long been a hotbed of experimentation, a … -
Entrepreneurship in Museums: The Spark!Lab National Network
Entrepreneur, ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, (n) “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” While “entrepreneurial” as applied to museums has usually focused on the “willing to take risk” part, in recent … -
Access: No Longer About Unlocking the Front Door
I’ve blogged about my brief experience with Google Glass at the Tech@LEAD conference. Turns out @nealstimler loaned that same pair of specs to Nik Honeysett, head of administration at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Today Nik shares his …
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