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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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Fighting for the Fifth Screen
It is a challenge. With tablets and phones, and now watches and even goggle-glasses, added to all the screens popping up everywhere, there is real motion toThis...
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Gamification for Fitness and Wellness
An example of how gamification and social networking can be used for fitness and wellness programs. " ... A major West Coast health plan has jumped on the social...
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Quantification of Social Behavior
Averages are wrong. " ... The key here is the word "average." This is quite likely the wrong way to think about social behavior. This is actually quite common...
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Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising
An article from a while back on the phenomenon of 'uncanny valley' in targeted advertising. The emotional experience of knowing you are being watched. Noticed...
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Integrated Insights
Clorox and Roundy's develop a collaborative shopping program. More here. Identifying gaps between beliefs and behaviors.
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On Retooling for the Social Era
Video. Everyone is including strong social elements in their systems, but search is still a big element in getting to focused results. Portals are still essential...
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Robotics Challenge for Disaster Response
A very detailed DARPA challenge for robotics in the area of disaster response. In IEEE spectrum. I have been surprised that more has not been done in this context...
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Computers and Society
See correspondent Lisa Kaczmarczyk's book:Computers and Society: Computing for Good contains in-depth case studies with extensive, thought provoking end of chapter...
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Delivering Analytics
In E-Commerce Times: Some useful thoughts about the process and the needs for expertise. Its never all about the tools:" ... Considering the large number of...
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Electronic Laboratory Notebook Management
Rescentris just brought to my attention. We worked on Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) systems that could be signed and witnessed some time ago. Most recently...
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Aimia Loyalty Analytics
I have been following the Aimia group for a while now. More news. " ... Self Serve, a proprietary program through Sobeys' partnership with analytics firm Aimia...
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Shopper Marketing
New book: Shopper Marketing: How to Increase Purchase Decisions at the Point of Sale, by Markus Stahlberg. On my list to read. Contains a chapterHerb Sorensen...
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Visualizing Risk
A study in visualizing risk, from Forbes. Very complex dashboards of data are shown. This gets back to using the human visual system as a trend and outlier recognition...
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P&G Razor Innovation
In the HBR Blog. How consumer innovation for Gillette is moving to the far east. Matches some other speculation I have heard about how other innovation work...
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Struggling to Collaborate
Baseline Slideshow: On the issues of inter-enterprise collaboration. Somewhat useful, again, for a project I am working, but could use more depth than they claim...
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Managing a Portfolio of Innovations
From Forrester: We also worked on a closely related project. how do you get the right information, especially about the technical risk involved, to the decision...
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Retail Work Force Dropping
In the Atlantic: Why the future of retail doesn't need workers. Partially agree. It still needs workers, just a reapportionment of them. New skills. More innovation...
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Terry Jones on Breakthrough Innovation
A keynote presentation on regarding breaking through corporate organizational barriers to innovation.
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Global Leadership Lessons from Unilever
Global leadership lessons from Unilever:" ... Kruythoff was appointed president of Unilever's North American cluster in September 2011. Based in the United States...
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