{"id":8733,"date":"2017-06-29T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=8733"},"modified":"2017-06-29T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:21:15","slug":"uncle-sam-wants-deep-neural-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/uncle-sam-wants-deep-neural-networks\/8733\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam Wants Your Deep Neural Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"&nbsp; Originally published\u00a0in NYTimes, June 22, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u00a0is turning to data scientists to improve screening techniques at airports. On Thursday, the department, working with Google, introduced\u00a0a $1.5 million contest\u00a0to build computer algorithms that can automatically identify concealed items in images captured by checkpoint body scanners. The government is putting up the money, and the six-month contest will be\u00a0run by\u00a0Kaggle, a site that hosts more than a million data scientists that was recently acquired by Google. Although data scientists can apply any technique in building these algorithms, the contest is a way of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/uncle-sam-wants-deep-neural-networks\/8733\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Originally published\u00a0in NYTimes, June 22, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u00a0is turning to data scientists to improve screening techniques at airports. On Thursday, the department, working with Google, introduced\u00a0a $1.5 million contest\u00a0to build computer algorithms that can automatically identify concealed items in images captured by checkpoint body scanners. The government is putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[368,230,946,947,8],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-analytics","tag-data-information","tag-deep-neural-networks","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}