Air quality monitoring is often performed by a small number of fixed station in some selected spots in cities. But a new wave of participatory monitoring initiatives is going to challenge this paradigm. everyAware is one of those. But it is far from being the only one.
A new initiative for a similar goal […]
Humans are still the best systems in recognizing acoustic patterns. For example, volunteers perform much better than machines in associating vocalizations to the corresponding species, by listening to the recordings obtained by placing sensors into the environment. But can a human being listen to hundreds of hours of wildlife recordings and annotate all the sounds […]
In a recent blog post, Andy Oram complains about the difficulty of applying a Silicon-Valley-like attitude toward innovation at the U.S. healthcare system. Lots of regulations, even in the U.S., block care managers from introducing new – and more ICT-based – methodologies in providing information and services. In a similar direction goes a recent […]
