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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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Visionaries Spot the Future
In Wired: Several notable visionaries describe how they spot the future. Including several we worked with. It is always about a context. Notably Paul Saffo...
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Cray Urika
Taking a look at Cray Computer. Years ago, in 1996, when they had just combined with Silicon Graphics, also an early platform we used, I gave a talk to their...
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If You Like Will You Buy?
From the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative:Intriguing data and behavior analysis opportunity:IF YOU "LIKE" WILL YOU BUY? NEW DATA ON SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSUREA...
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Health Care Supply Chain Solutions
Just had an enlightening discussion with Dave Swart, of Health Chain Solutions Ltd. They address the question of how you utilize increasingly available health...
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Fujitsu enters Big Data
In a recent interesting development, Japanese hardware and software giant has proposed a software suite that addresses big data. " ... The company announced server...
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Technology and Its Use Continue to Speed up
A graph displays the penetration of many common technologies into US households. Source at the link and larger graph at the link. See the comments in the link...
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Transforming the Front End of Innovation
Intriguing webinar case study of work by Kimberly-Clark. I plan to attend. The idea of using concept development is something we are using effectively to this...
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Introverts and Innovation
In the HBR Blogs: Although Myers Briggs tests are not technically meant to label introvert-extrovert, we did experiment with it broadly to help people understand...
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Social Media Advertising Exploding
In AdAge: A good opinion piece predicting the continuing increase of using social media to engage. Suggestion is that a battle will ensue between digital media...
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Dissolvable Packaging
An experimental topic for some time. It always requires a second protective layer for making sure that encounters with water or high moisture don't cause problems...
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Future of Data Visualization
From the Tableau Software Blog: On the future of data visualization. Well put, but in addition being able to interact with a visualization so it can fit both...
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Microsoft Mood Analysis
In GeekWire: Microsoft research proposes a search that uses mood, interests and education from Facebook activity. Non conscious and inferred information is always...
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Classic Nintendo Games are Hard
NP-Hard to be exact. A specific form of problem that has many examples, the traveling salesman problem is known to be NP-Hard, that cannot be solved by a cadre...
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Synthetic Environments
Simulations are synthetic environment. It has been a long time since I too a look at Purdue's Simulex Inc. which creates macroeconomic and agent oriented environments...
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Nanotech Revolution
Was pointed to this series of articles by Gwyneth K Shaw on nanotechnology news and tech. Largely non technical and readable. That led me to a series of articles...
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Digitization of Manufacturing
In the Economist: Is this the third industrial revolution? They do a good job of providing an overview of technologies that are prompting this, but not necessarily...
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Kimberly-Clark on Mobile and Social
An interview with Kimberly Clark on the future of mobile and social: " ... Jeff Jarrett, vice president for global digital marketing at Kimberly-Clark, said the...
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Segmentation plus Merchandising
Merchandising has been around for a long time. We did lots of experimentation trying to understand the specific behavior of consumers in laboratory, virtual and...
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