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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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Breakthrough Innovations in Technology
Fairly well known. A good reminder of some hot areas. In particular the medical records area.
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Royal Society Opens Archives
Just announced. " .... The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive
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SIRI vs Clippy
I remember taking a close look at Microsoft's Clippy assistant interface as a replacement for some kinds of software support. It actually did a fairly good job...
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Decision Support
It is really all about decision support. Beyond that it is about decision process improvement. " ... We struggle with questions on supporting decisions, yetSome...
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Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A well put caution, it can hamper innovation, but I think there is still value in using strategic planning as an infrastructure for...
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Simulating the Brain
An interesting suggestion that IBM can now simulate 4.5% of the human brain. It is always dangerous to compare brains and computing machines. Still not a...
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Executable English
Interacting with databases via English. Semantic interpretation of social media and execution:" .... It could become a next big thing after Twitter and Facebook...
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Pushing Your Wikipedia Location Information
A nice, simple idea. Push information based on your current location. A simple layer includes information contained in Wikipedia: New Wikipedia Layer on Geoloqi...
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World Changing Games HQ
I missed this when it first came out: Gameful: An HQ for world changing games. Posited, it appears, by game promoter Jane McGonigal. Ideas to use game dynamics...
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Curating Conversations with Storify
Just brought to my attention. I examined Storify quickly a while back, but this puts a new spin on using it that is worth examining.
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Eliminating the Checkout Line
Not really a self-checkout. And not an item-tagged RFID enabled checkout, which we also tested. But here something completely different. A checkout based onDescribed...
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Retaining Retired Expertise
As we continue to move through the Baby Boomer bubble, companies understand that they are losing key expertise. I looked at this problem for the enterprise, seeking...
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Coke Freeestyle Launches
The Coke Freestyle machine is coming to Firehouse Subs. An advance in vending. The link includes a location map.There are several of these in our area and will...
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Heathcare Analytics and Intelligence
Healthcare is probably one of the best areas of opportunity to apply these technologies. it is also one of the most complex, requiring the involvement of manyIBM...
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Productivity via the Interface
Microsoft presents some views of new interface concepts. Concepts only at this time, but some impressive examples. Towards more productivity.
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Improving Engagement in Saas Applications
Fairly obvious, but useful reminder of the basics in engagements of any kind.
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Is the Moore Party Over?
A short post in CACM on the slowdown of computing. Or can we await quantum computing to save the day. There are still good problems out there to address with...
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Technology is Too Distracting
More on the distracting aspects of technology, and yes technology can be very distracting. For we that tend to diverge in attention that can be satisfying. But...
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New Frameworks for Optimization
I was recently reminded of Charlotte Software Systems, which is in part comprised of parts of several companies I had worked with in the past. They had all been...
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