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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Embedding Analytics
A description of recent IBM work in embedding analytical methods in decision making. In our own experience it was always a case of how analytical methods could...
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Online Storefronts
Engadget asks what works. We examined this almost a decade ago. I thought about it for a real application. Was there a requirement, or any value in mimic-ing...
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Evernote Acquires Penultimate for Handwriting
I see that the Evernote note-taking company has acquired the Penultimate handwriting capture system. More details here. I have used and enjoyed Evernote on...
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Badgeify Acquires Gamification
An interesting change among gamification vendors and underlying information organization. I have enjoyed and found useful the gamification.org wiki for examples...
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Re-imagining Online Advertising
The documentary. Google re-imagines what online advertising will become in their project Brief. Interesting to see what they are up to, especially considering...
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Google Maps Coordinate
New: Google mapping and location infrastructure, used to manage field crews. An analytics application.
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Crowdsourcing Forest Monitoring
In Google Lat Long: Having been involved in several crowd sourcing efforts, its always good to see further and more complex examples. Mapping would seem to be...
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VSN Strategies
I have just become involved in a new collaboration with James Tenser of VSN Strategies. " ... Consultant to the retail consumer products industry and authorSee...
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Postal Strategy
It has been obvious that the US Postal Service needs to adapt to change. Wharton discusses this in some detail. They have changed considerably, introducing many...
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Degrees of Separation
In CACM: Reexamining the popular meme of tight connectivity of our social network. The small world. In 2000 we visited the Santa Fe Institute for a workshop...
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Greening the Supply Chain
A Wharton special report on practices for sustainability and greening the supply chain. Best practices and future trends.
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Mobility in Healthcare IT
In ComputerWorld: Will health care organizations need what is akin to a Chief Mobility Officer? Mobility is a key to efficient healthcare. Linking together...
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Future Thinking
In Wired: Future thinking relies on out memory of the past. And our memories of the past are not as reliable as we think. They are easily altered and deceived....
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Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
The work of Robert Axelrod and William Poundstone fascinated us in graduate school as we tried to apply AI techniques to decision strategies. I see that The Edge...
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Chemistry of Enthusiasm
Bain Insights: Which makes considerable sense. " ... The revenues and stocks of companies with highly engaged workers outperform those of companies with low engagement...
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Safeway Supports Shopping Research
In Progressive Grocer: Safeway joins with Duke-Ipsos on shopping research. More on that effort. There has been relatively little I have found on this shopping...
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Video Mining
Analyzing raw video from cameras. Videomining, a company we talked to as a potential solution for analyzing retail video lab stores that examined shopping contexts...
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On Universal Remotes
I see in Engadget the military is looking for universal remotes for drone fleets. I was thinking about the general idea of how to make a remote universal the other...
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