Social Media Aggregator Evaluation

Social media touches nearly every aspect of our personal and business lives. It is changing the ways of how people communicate and how information is flowing. Organizations are using social media networks more and more as their communication channels and public engagement tools. It becomes more urgent for organizations to effectively manage and use the … Continue reading “Social Media Aggregator Evaluation”

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform

What are Content Collaboration Platforms? As defined by Gartner, the content collaboration platform (CCP) market covers a range of products and services that enable content productivity and collaboration. CCPs are aimed at individuals and teams, inside or outside an organization. Additionally, CCPs increasingly support lightweight content management and workflow use cases. Core user functionalities include: … Continue reading “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform”

How will universities be digitally transforming?

Digital Transformation is the application of digital technology across the University and is critical to our future success as an institution. Digital Transformation at the University is about more than just technology. The goal is to adopt new ways of working in order to continue delivering our mission in the face of changing technology, competition, audience … Continue reading “How will universities be digitally transforming?”

Future Trends in Technology and Education

Future Trends in Technology and Education is a monthly report.  It surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies.  Its purpose is to help educators, policy-makers, and the public think about the future of teaching, learning, research, and institutions. You can find its website here: https://ftte.us/ . Read … Continue reading “Future Trends in Technology and Education”

How we use Slack

Recently, Slack won the office messaging wars. Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride assets,  Atlassian said it will discontinue the two products by Feb. 15, 2019, and exit the communications business. Have you ever heard of Slack? Slack is a collaboration hub that connects … Continue reading “How we use Slack”

Serverless Computing

Serverless architectures are internet based systems where the application development does not use the usual server process. Instead they rely solely on a combination of third-party services, client-side logic, and service hosted remote procedure calls (FaaS). Serverless applications often make extensive use of third party services to accomplish tasks that are traditionally taken care of by servers. … Continue reading “Serverless Computing”

AI learns the art of debate

AI learns the art of debate with IBM project debater. An AI system that can engage in debate with humans, Project Debater moves us closer to one of the great boundaries in AI: mastering language. An artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debates with humans. At an event held at IBM’s Watson … Continue reading “AI learns the art of debate”

GDPR bot – a prototype chatbot to inform people about the new GDPR regulation.

What is a chatbot? Put simply, a chatbot is a computer programme which can conduct a conversation with a user via auditory or textual input. Chatbots are designed to simulate typical conversational behaviour between two people, with the best chatbot systems being able to convince a user that they are speaking to another person. The … Continue reading “GDPR bot – a prototype chatbot to inform people about the new GDPR regulation.”

Blockchain based academic certificate authentication system overview

Counterfeit academic certificates have been a longstanding issue in the academic community. Not until the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab released their project of Block-certs, a technique which is mainly implemented by conflating the hash value of local files to the blockchain but remains numerous issues, did an effective technological approach protecting authentic credential … Continue reading “Blockchain based academic certificate authentication system overview”

Biometric authentication – Overview and Experiments

From the casual users of the home computer to the business, corporations and government, there is a great concern about the security of files, systems, and the ability of technology to protect us from unauthorized access. Computer software companies have put a great effort to meet the demand for better security of sensitive, confidential, and … Continue reading “Biometric authentication – Overview and Experiments”