event stream

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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An event stream is where a series of related events follow after one another and are treated as a time varying unit by the system. For example, we might think about the stream of touch events from a smartphone screen, or the stream of readings from a temperature sensor.

Used in Chap. 8: pages 107, 115; Chap. 14: page 219