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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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Algorithms That Changed the Future
Being a long time practitioner of the practice of developing and applying algorithms, I found this book to be very interesting: Nine Algorithms that Changed. ...
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Turbo Tax Goes Mobile
Intuit reports that their flagship Turbo Tax package, which I have used for years, is now available on iPhone, iPad and Android. The package can be used to both...
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Odor Destroying Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: An interesting idea. Deoderants for the home applied by autonomous agents? Over complicating the idea, but worth understanding. Perhaps...
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Managing Brand and Corporate Reputation
A conversation reminded me again of the company Neputation, who's technical people I had the chance to talk to recently. Impressive methods being used to address...
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Air Force Social Radar
The idea of air force social radar sounds much like neuromarketing efforts underway today, but some more seriousness involved. Reading minds all the way down...
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Wolfram Educational Portal
The Beta of the Wolfram Educational Portal has been released. Great effort. " ... We are happy to announce the launch of the free Beta version of the Wolfram...
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Cool BI Innovations
In TDWI: Some expected examples that are worth reviewing. I think much more can be said here. Some of the innovations will take considerable evolving to be...
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AI Past and Future
Some notes on AI, Past and Future, in the ACM. Another favorite topic. Most recently I have seen some of the IBM Watson work, which nicely brings expertise based...
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Future of Gaming
I continue to be intrigued by the use of game dynamics as part of user engagement. Did a number of related projects in the enterprise: Here some further thoughts...
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Disjunctive Mapping of Consumers
From Informs: A presentation on Advances in understanding human behavior: Disjunctive mapping. Exploring further.
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Gap Analysis
Good post on the topic by the Burghard Group. " ... Gap Analysis is an assessment tool to help a place (community, region, state) compare its current economic...
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Consumers Want More Communications from Retailers
Not that much of a surprise, providing the communication is truly useful. " ... according to the IBM Institute for Business Value 2011 Retail Industry Study, released...
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Marketing via a Virtual Pinboard
A simple and clever approach. Using a virtual pinboard metaphor to market and promote a site. The enabling site is called Pinterest, which I had not heard of...
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Software Quality in the Global Supply Chain
In ECommerce Times: Part of a conversation I have been having recently on supply chain design. How is the right data brought together in the quantities required...
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Accurate Robot Essay Graders
an interesting effort. . As the article asks, the end of multiple choice questions? This does delve into the nature of semantic meaning. A friend suggests it...
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Visualization of the History of Personal Computing
A visualization of personal computing via graphs of units shipped, from 75 to the present. From lumbering desktops to the very fast emergence of tablets.
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Branding Chatter
See Ed Burghard's paper.li online paper Branding Chatter. He is a former Harley Procter Marketer at Procter & Gamble who has lots of insightful things to say on...
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Developing Successful Brands about Places
Ed Burghard sends along his blog post on developing brands about places. Thoughtful. " ... I started the article off with a definition of place branding. At the...
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One Bit Can be Stored in 12 Atoms
A report on research at IBM that has decreased the number of material atoms required to store a single bit of information from about a million iron atoms to only...
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