Day archives: December 19th, 2011

Research: Reading Digits in Natural Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning

Reading Digits in Natural Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning, Yuval Netzer, Tao Wang, Adam Coates, Alessandro Bissacco, Bo Wu1, Andrew Y. Ng “Detecting and reading text from natural images is a hard computer vision task that is central to a variety of emerging applications. Related problems like document character recognition have been widely studied by …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

New GAO Reports: Coast Guard, International Climate Change Assessments, Port Security Grant Program

Coast Guard – Security Risk Model Meets DHS Criteria, but More Training Could Enhance Its Use for Managing Programs and Operations, GAO-12-14, Nov 17, 2011 International Climate Change Assessments, Federal Agencies Should Improve Reporting and Oversight of U.S. Funding, GAO-12-43, Nov 17, 2011 Port Security Grant Program – Risk Model, Grant Management, and Effectiveness Measures …

Subjects: Government Documents

CCH Tax Briefing – 2011 Tax Year-in-Review

2011 Lays Groundwork For Tax Reform, Makes Important Changes Impacting 2012: “2011 had been predicted to be a quiet year in federal tax news – as it landed between major tax legislation in 2010 and expected tax reform in 2012 – but the year brought many significant tax developments from the Obama Administration, Congress, the …

Subjects: Congress