Author Sieuwert van Otterloo

Dr. Sieuwert van Otterloo is a court-certified IT expert with interests in agile, security, software research and IT-contracts.

Comparing cloud AI services against open source libraries for face detection
The three large cloud companies Google, Microsoft and Amazon offer cloud services for many AI tasks. Using these services has practical benefits but also strategic risks: when using a service, you have less control over your AI use. In order to gain insight into the pros and cons of AI services, Elif Kalkan has done…
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Legocolor: a computer vision dataset for learning datascience
The Legocolor dataset is a new dataset designed to test common data science techniques such as k-nearest neighbour and decision trees. The dataset consists of color samples (red, green and blue value) from real world images of Lego and the official lego color of the brick, and the goal is to train a model to…
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Staying up to date with python – research survey
Python is one of the most used programming languages: thousands of developers use the language and its frameworks of libraries for new IT systems. The language itself and the various libraries and frameworks are frequently updated and this causes legacy issues: Systems must be changed to work with the latest frameworks,or become vulnerable to security…
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The ICTI list of influential computer scientists
Computer, science, AI and privacy-law are often described as new fields of research. This maybe was the case in 1990, but as of now these fields are old: The solutions to most current problems in society are already invented years ago, but not well-remembered. To help ourselves and other people remember all the work, we…
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Technology risk assessment 2023: what programming language (versions) to use
It is important for companies to choose future proof technology: if not you may have to switch technology at great cost, or run security risks. In our technology reviews, we therefore assess the risk of all modern software languages and frameworks. In this article we explain what we look at and provide a summary of the…
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