Melvin's digital garden

Smart systems enable liveable cities panel discussion

[2017-01-19 Thu 18:58:42] event: SMU Panel

Centralization vs decentralization

  • LTA requires bus operators to provide bus timings
  • waze is a central system but it helps people make better decisions in a decentralized way

Butler Lampson

  • Machine learning systems should be limited by a monitoring program that can enforce safety requirements

Challenging to get good programmers to developer the critial programs

  • Cerf: programmers should have a license
  • Butler: out source the development to a reputable company

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