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The article discusses concerts, festivals, and in-person gatherings for 2020, has plenty of pent-up demand for large-scale events as head to 2021. Topics include Algorithm Series delves to the math and workflow decisioning used to finetune live video event delivery at scale; and live-streaming solutions focus on unicast delivery, in a single connection between the video streaming server and the end user's streaming player.

The article presents the discussion on digital rights management (DRM). Topics include other form of rights management impeding their ability for pacifying the children; protecting content licensors' rights while giving purchasers, renters, and subscribers flexible and fair options for watching content; and containing content encryption and license generation.

The article reports that Libraries face an existential crisis as discussed at Internet Librarian (IL22) conference held in October 2022, librarians gathered uncertainties about the future of libraries. Topics include concerns noted in categories such as people's ability to pay attention, access to technology and information, and the role of artificial intelligence; and role of physical space emerged as the pointed concern, and various forms of political concerns libraries.

The article focuses on finding community news in the algorithmic era. Topics inlcude the researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism decided to study the exact penetration of news deserts in the U.S., the loss of community information a dearth of local news coverage can lead to dire consequences, and the result was that some of the most-affected counties, which represent some of the most rural and economically has depressed areas in the U.S. INSETS: WHO OWNS ALGORITHMIC NEWS?;CANARIES IN THE AI COAL MINE.

The article discusses that the first age of IP (internet protocol), both TCP (transmission control protocol) and UDP (user datagram protocol) found favor with IP architects everywhere, and they were declared effective as transport protocols to carry IP. It mentions that the Streaming grew in popularity, and hundreds of millions of consumers were able to view on-demand content thanks to the combination of HTTP and TCP known as HTTP/2.

The article explores While virtual assistants have yet to become a fixture on the reference desk, machine learning and other AI applications are becoming more prevalent across industries. Recommendation systems are seamlessly integrated into nearly all of the platforms we use to access content online.

The article offers information on the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) hosting meetings held at Washington, D.C venue on June 2019. It mentions the Cleveland Convention Center provided a spacious exhibit area for the INFO-EXPO, with the session rooms which made for a convenient and easily navigable space.

The article offers information on ethical aspects and uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in different industries. Topics discussed include the use of AI in court sentencing, AI principles and biases, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Union for regulation of personal information collection, use and storage.

The article discusses the delivery portion of the streaming equation, CDNs using refined content caching and content replication, optimized network paths including ingress, egress, and midgress data transport. Topics include the key CDN components have a number of fundamental algorithms using to balance strategic core and edge architecture demands; and "Consistent Hashing and Random Trees Distributed Caching Protocols for Relieving Hot Spots on the World Wide Web".

The article offers information related to the beginning of digital revolution as Second Gilded Age. It mentions benefits from Algorithmic Society as services, resources, opportunities, knowledge and social relations are migrating into the digital realm; development of systems beginning of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to quickly connect user activity or characteristics and use purposes that incriminate, discriminate, or harm innocent people who are unaware of any connections that may be created.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the authors experience of being ChatGPT better understandable as a pseudo-sentient writer.

The article discusses the role of search and discovery engine algorithms of cognitive computing and big data paradigms to overcome human cognitive bias and organizational dogma. Also includes information on machine learning fact checkers opted by search engine to avoid fake news and algorithms related to query rules and knowledge organization systems (KOS).

The article discusses the post-processing approach to improving the optical character recognition (OCR) output. It mentions the algorithm in the approach tries combining it with following sequences of letters, testing whether they combine to make a word. It adds the issue is which sequences are accepted as an English word.

the article offers information on the Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia from April 17–19, 2018. Topics include role of libraries in digital communities; community impact of digital transformation; and trend in web search. It featured professionals from the industry including Greg Notess, Jeanne Holm and Rick Huijbregts.

The article discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of algorithms and Big Data in libraries. Topics covered include information on the use of an open metadata server to easily catalog information available at the Library Innovation Lab of Harvard University. Also mentioned is the description of StackLife software that helps users easily browse resources.

The author explores the concept of Singularity or superhuman intelligence. She points out that the rise of Singularity is expected to mark the end of biological humans, caused by digital inventions. Inventor Ray Kurzweil used his Law of Accelerating Returns to demonstrate evidence of Singularity and promoted his prediction in three books including "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology." She cites symptoms of Singularity in the financial market including the use of algorithms for trading shares.

Provides information on the mathematical ranking and selection formulas used by the University of Michigan (UM), the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and the Google Web search engine. Basis for the algorithm used by the BCS to rank the best college football teams in the U.S.; Formula of the UM for its undegraduate admissions process; Mathematical system used by Google to choose the top ten or so We pages to present to users.

The article discusses issues related to electronic signatures. According to Richard Hansberger, director of eNotarization at the National Notaries Association (NNA), more than 900 million transactions are notarized in the U.S. annually. To accommodate the increasing number of digital transactions, the NNA created an electronic notary seal (ENS). Security features such as biometrics, public-key interfaces, third-party time stamps and hash algorithms can be integrated into the electronic document process to prevent misuse.