The success of almost any enterprise, especially a logistics enterprise, hinges on its ability to ingest, process, disseminate and act on timely data, Presidential Innovation Fellow Adam Drake says.
Like fingerprint identification technology, facial recognition has the potential to significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of police investigations.
The new Uber Movement Speeds provides street-level traffic in hourly increments for New York, Seattle and Cincinnati, London and Nairobi.
Dynamic authorization with attribute-based access control allows agencies to securely share IoT data by only allowing authorized users access to sensitive data under the right conditions.
Data is critical to spurring practical innovation at agencies, but deriving real intelligence requires context and focus, experts say.
Seismologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using cloud computing to conduct a continent-scale survey for seismic signatures of industrial activity, cutting the time it took to complete the work from days to hour.
Machine learning can improve the tax process if it is trained on human-verified historical data, enables personalized returns and provides transparency into how its algorithms make decisions.
The open-source Severe Contingency Solver software can help government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity wants a fully automated way to fuse and process the images and spectral data coming from space satellites so that it can spot changes across the Earth's surface in real time.
The database has been accessed more than 1 million times, including some 32,000 times by immigration officials. Police said they will fix the database but not erase it.