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Austin resident uses AI to track homeless camps as crisis skyrockets, millions spent

FOX News

Academy of Media Arts Founder Dana Hammond joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why the school was forced to close to accommodate the homeless population. An Austin resident who has been documenting the city's homeless crisis has helped develop an AI interactive map to track camps and communities. Jamie Hammonds, who has been documenting the crisis through DASH Media, provided data to the group Nomadik, which developed the full-featured AI map. The map vividly depicts where homeless encampments are concentrated throughout the city. A map, powered by AI, provides a visual representation showing where Austin's homeless are concentrated.

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Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Prediction of Chronic Homelessness

VanBerlo, Blake, Ross, Matthew A. S., Rivard, Jonathan, Booker, Ryan

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A 2016 report claims that annually upwards of 235 000 Canadians endure periods of homelessness, with approximately 35 000 individuals lacking a place to stay each night [1]. Between 2005 and 2014, there was a downward trend in the total number of Canadians using shelters; however, the occupancy rates of shelters has been increasing [1]. One factor accounting for this ongoing decrease in the number of homeless individuals paired with an increase in shelter occupancy is an increase in chronic homelessness. London's Homeless Prevention division identifies an individual as chronically homelessness if they have spent 6 or more months ( 180 days) of the last year in a shelter, which was based on the definition of chronic homelessness outlined by the Canadian government's homelessness strategy directives [2]. In addition to this trend, the demographics of homelessness are changing in Canada. In preceding decades, older, single males are over-represented in the homeless population; in contrast, the homeless population of today is increasingly diverse, with families, women, and youth comprising a greater fraction [1].


Southern California police to patrol with drones during coronavirus lockdown: report

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Health experts analyze the Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu and swine flus of 1976 and 2009 in a special hosted by Harris Faulkner. Some police departments in California plan on using drones to enforce a coronavirus lockdown and to, in part, monitor the homeless population, according to a report on Friday. The Chula Vista Police Department, located just south of San Diego near the California-Mexico border, recently purchased two $11,000 drones -- doubling its fleet -- that will be outfitted with speakers and night vision cameras. "We have not traditionally mounted speakers to our drones, but ... if we need to cover a large area to get an announcement out, or if there were a crowd somewhere that we needed to disperse -- we could do it without getting police officers involved," said Capt. The Chula Vista Police Department plans on using drones to enforce a coronavirus lockdown.


Securing New Ground Considers Impact Of Technologies And A Holistic Approach

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Securing New Ground, the security industry's annual executive conference this week in New York, offered food for thought about current and future trends in the security marketplace. Highlights from SNG 2019 included keynote remarks from security leaders at SAP, Johnson Controls and the Consumer Technology Association, discussions on how CSOs mitigate security risks, topic-focused thought leadership roundtables and a lively networking reception. Top trends observed at the event include cybersecurity, data privacy, facial recognition and artificial intelligence. A "View from the Top" session covered the need for companies to consider responsible use and ethics around technology; responsibility should extend throughout the organization. A panel of security leaders emphasized the need to understand the diversity of risks that end users face.