Where we once had analog, we now have digital. Digitization has allowed us to create new ways of thinking – opening a multi-way dialog and generating new ideas. Continue reading
Month: June 2016
Sopra Steria Digilab: designing the projects of tomorrow
As both an educational and commercial showcase, digilabs bring together the most outstanding innovations developed by international Business Units within the Sopra Steria group; they are hubs of new ideas to imagine tomorrow’s world. Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence for Individual and Collective Efficiency
A Recent History of Intelligence in a Digital World
Artificial Intelligence is a technology that uses human-like learning to perform tasks. The idea of Artificial Intelligence or AI is nothing new. As a concept it has been in our literature and art for centuries. But these ideas had no foundation other than as philosophies of nature and science fiction. But things have changed. Continue reading
Explaining Human Nature To Robots
Copyright – Les Echos / Worldcrunch – April 21 2016 – By Roger-Pol Droit
Try to imagine that an intelligent robot is out to kill you. It remembers all your passwords and has access to all your data. Equipped with facial recognition technology, it can identify you wherever you go, even though you have no idea what it looks like. Continue reading
Flaw in maps app Waze lets hackers track you
Copyright – The Telegraph – April 27 2016 – By Cara McGoogan
A vulnerability in Google’s navigation app Waze could let hackers follow your every move. Continue reading
Assisted evolution
Natural selection is Charles Darwin’s most celebrated theory. It depends on the fact that in each generation there will be mutation. This mutation creates variation in a species affording some with an advantage to survive in a changing world. Continue reading
Schools are helping police spy on kids’ social media activity
Copyright – The Washington Post – April 22 2016 – By Karen Turner
Schools in Florida are renewing a program that monitors their students’ social media activity for criminal or threatening behavior, although it has caused some controversy since its adoption last year. Continue reading
The Sopra Steria innovation awards
In January, took place the second edition of Sopra Steria’s ‘Trophées de l’Innovation’. These innovation awards are an opportunity for all the group’s staff to hone their sense of innovation, by undertaking unique projects. The innovation awards were a great success, with more than 500 projects brought forward. The winners of the challenge have already moved onto the design phase! Continue reading