Special Issue: Fighting Organised Crime with Big Data and Smart Cities. The Internet accumulates new knowledge at volumes that prevent close reading. This trend is chiefly attributable to the rapid growth of new technologies, coupled with the development of a crowdsourcing culture, tools, and business practices. Open massive online databases like DBpedia, Wikidata, Freebase, OpenCyc, and YAGO have been used…
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During an exciting weekend, you can join forces to other participants to create and build your own creative prototypes to solve some of the challenges proposed during the event utilizing digital fabrication. Fab Lab Oulu will host Science Hack Days for first time in Finland. During the weekend, enthusiasts for science and technology join to prototype solutions to a variety…
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Fab Academy is a 5-month training program taking place from mid-January to June where students will learn how to envision, prototype and document their ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools in a program conducted by Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms. During the program a student will acquire a diversity of skills like web development, project management, 2D…
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CARE is an assistive healthcare platform developed by the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Oulu. The platform consists of a innovative sensor infrastructure that collects contextual data from nursing environments using the AWARE framework. By applying state of the art machine learning algorithms, the data is converted into understandable information for nurses to use in the daily care…
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