Intelligent Photographs - MediaTech Ventures

Computer science today is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in media; and more tangible than the excitement for blockchain, AR, or monitization is the simple fact that the internet continues enabling data in ways never before possible. I caught on a flight to Naples, Florida, an article (in print) about a Civil War era enthusiast who happens to work in biometric artificial intelligence. Rest assured, I chuckled a bit at reading in print an article about artificial intelligence in digital photography. Kurt Luther, Boyd Farrow reports, discovered a photo of a great-great-great Uncle at Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center in 2013. He's the Director of the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech and one of the foremost computer scientists working with photographs thanks to his epiphany that there are millions of historic photos of faces with no names.