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AI technology must be leveraged to respond to, minimize school shootings
Matty Squarzoni Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityEven one school shooting is too many. Nineteen years after one of America’s most infamous and deadly incidents — the Columbine school shooting — little has improved in the nearly two decades since. These incidents require better prevention and response measures as they create long-term impacts on schools and communities — destroying countless lives when the shooter succeeds in taking even one shot.
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GIS-savvy surveyors muster political will to lobby at multiple levels of…
Bill Becken Construction & Building MaterialsSurveying is daytime work — especially if it invokes today’s remarkable high-tech geospatial mapping and navigational tools, known collectively as geographic information systems (GIS). Nighttime or off-hours duties aren’t usually associated with it. Yet those are exactly what many land surveyors have shouldered lately — as members of one or more of their professional associations — as they attempt to cogently address the legislative and political issues facing the profession.
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New study elaborates on sheep toxin link to multiple sclerosis
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareA group from the United Kingdom has identified a link between multiple sclerosis and a toxin frequently found in ovine, more commonly referred to as sheep. The team led by Dr. Sariqa Wagley from the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter found indications of the clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin associated with multiple sclerosis. It was not the first group to express concern that exposure to sheep toxins may contribute to the expression of multiple sclerosis.
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Voice search is now a key marketing tool for hotels
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementForty percent of adults in the U.S. use voice search every day. In 2016, this was 20 percent, which was itself a 40 percent increase from the year before. Speech recognition technology has evolved and is more precise now, with a mere 8 percent error rate. Furthermore, millions of people own an Alexa or Google Home device. People continue to use Siri for something they need instead of typing in a search. For hotels that see millions of searches for accommodation every day, this is a paradigm shift.
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Renewable energy jobs are growing worldwide
Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & EnvironmentalThe renewable energy sector created more than 500,000 new jobs globally in 2017, with the total number of people employed in renewables surpassing 10 million for the first time. Per the International Renewable Energy Agency’s report, "Renewable Energy and Jobs," jobs in the sector increased 5.3 percent in 2017, for a total of 10.3 million people employed worldwide. China, Brazil, the United States, India, Germany and Japan have remained the world’s largest renewable energy employers, per the report, representing more than 70 percent of all of the sector’s jobs.
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Surveillance technologies key to increasing student safety
Bambi Majumdar EducationData from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that 75 percent of public schools use security cameras to monitor their buildings. With school shootings dominating headlines, it is not a surprise to see a rise in safety measures. As a result, many districts are investing in high-tech digital surveillance systems to keep students and staff safe from harm. These new surveillance technologies will complement teacher and student training programs.
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Physicians want integrated EHR data for better patient care
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe seemingly never-ending debate about the benefits of electronic health records and their use in practice is heating up again after a new report suggested that more than half of 300 recently interviewed U.S. physicians are "very or extremely satisfied" with their access to patient information. Per the Surescripts’ Physician Perspectives on Access to Patient Data report, physicians said they feel the best part of EHR use is accessibility.
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Neutralizing chemical warehousing pain points
Julie Bernhard Distribution & WarehousingWarehouse space might be hot at the moment, but for chemical manufacturers, 3PLs and distributors — this space can actually be hard to come by. In a session at WERC 2018, conducted by William Miller, director of business development of the Faure Brothers Corp., attendees tackled the issues they all face while trying to provide responsible care of regulated and hazardous chemicals. The group collaboratively hashed out what they found to be the most challenging aspects of this particular warehousing vertical. "The question really boils down to — does the warehouse really know how to handle chemicals?" said one attendee.
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Infographic: Is your biggest security threat already inside your organization?
Rob Sobers Science & TechnologyWhat is your organization's biggest security threat? The answer may surprise you. While most companies imagine security threats in the form of malicious outsiders, the employees already in your organization may pose an even bigger threat. In fact, research suggests that insider threats account for anywhere from 60 to 75 percent of data breaches.
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Body cams for law enforcement to get a boost from AI
Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityArtificial intelligence-powered body cams are almost ready for the men in blue, which will provide an essential upgrade for fighting crime in the 21st century. Axon recently announced it would be embedding artificial intelligence in its wearable body cameras. The company is known for the wearable body cameras and Taser electroshock weapons used by most police departments in the U.S. These body cams will have AI-powered face recognition technology inserted in them, which will allow the police to scan and recognize the faces of almost everyone they see while on patrol.
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