LUCA 5 medical uses of Virtual Reality One of the technologies where Machine Learning plays an important, though not always very evident role, is Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality (or VR as it is often abbreviated to)...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
Cascajo Sastre María Quantum computing in the future of IoT Connected devices, the people who use them, and the places that harbour them are growing at extraordinary rates. In order to maintain this current growth rate, we must look...
Salmerón Uribes Marina Smart stores, the future of Retail In the information age, the retail sector, or what is the same, the commercialization of products and services, has been forced to leave behind the mere exhibition of products...
ElevenPaths Technically analysing a SIEM… are your logs secure? The SIEMs are usually utilized within highly secure of regulated environments, where regular log monitoring and analysis is required to search for security incidents. They help to make...
ElevenPaths New research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Big Data help reduce Deforestation in the Amazon? The disturbing images and videos of the Amazon ablaze last month were truly shocking and saddening. Not only trees, but wildlife, animals, habitats and homes burned to the...
LUCA Analysing tourist profiles in Spain with INE Tourism is one of the main sectors of economic activity in Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Economy in...
LUCA Mobility patterns in Lima and Callao based on Big Data technology We often think of Big Data as something exclusive to private companies. But one of the clearest applications is that of public bodies who want to improve the lives...
LUCA Big Data joins the fight against cancer The medical community continues to make ground breaking discoveries every day, but with a survival rate of only 50% (Cancer Research UK), we still have a long way to...
LUCA Ready for a Wild World: Big Data is key for humanitarian issues The Big Data for Social Good event organized by LUCA, “Ready for a Wild World“, took place on May 24th and brought together experts from relevant global organizations and...
LUCA Using Data to Manage Emergency Situations Content originally written by Carmen Rodríguez, intern at LUCA, and Javier Carro, Data Scientist within LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area. What would you say if we told you...
LUCA Are you Ready for a Wild World? Don’t miss out on Big Data for Social Good 2018! Ready for a Wild World? Our next Big Data for Social Good event will be dedicated to Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness Although we often associate Big Data with worries...
LUCA Can mobile phone traces help shed light on the spread of Zika in Colombia? Content written by Daniela Perrotta, ISI Foundation researcher and UN Global Pulse fellow and Enrique Frias-Martinez, Researcher, Telefonica Research, Madrid. Originally posted on the UN Global Pulse blog. Nowadays, thanks...
LUCA Using Big Data to combat Air Pollution in Brazil Content originally written by Raquel Carretero Juárez, for the Telefonica Public Policy Blog. Telefónica Brazil is using mobile network Big Data to monitor air pollution in São Paulo (Brazil) and...
LUCA Predictive Analysis and Machine Learning improving quality of life for refugees The refugee crisis is an ongoing issue that is sadly growing by the day. Currently, it is believed that roughly 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced...
LUCA The best Data Science certifications Over the last 10 years, the amount of data we have generated has soared to unprecedented heights. It is said that by 2020, each person will be generating 1.7...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
Richard Benjamins Artificial Intelligence vs Cognitive Computing: What’s the difference? The media hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing is unquestionable at the moment. They seem to appear everywhere on the Internet in the press, blogs, conferences and events...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
