Exploring the world on-the-go using Google Cloud Vision and Twilio

Getting a computer to see and understand stuff is hard. Way hard. Like, hard for a long time. For a bit of context, slide 15 seems to be the definitive abbreviated history, dating all the way back to 1966. If you want to dig into the details, there’s a free Udacity course on computer vision offered by Georgia Tech. However, you can add computer vision and intelligence capabilities to your applications without the deep understanding of machine learning by using Google Cloud Vision....

Report from the Mobile App Hackathon

The Mobile App Hackathon was the first of many hackathons that I’m certain to attend. I didn’t know what to expect, never having been to an event like this before. I’ve been to the academic equivalent (yep, I was a contestant in the ACM Programming Competition), but these relatively free-form hack-fests were a bit of a mystery! Anyone interested in attending a Mobile App Hackathon here in Seattle? –> http://ow....

2011-04-25 · 4 min · julia ferraioli · Events