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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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Bored in Space
You would not think it was possible. To be bored while in space, with all the tasks to do and the stars and earth to look at. But apparently it is, and games...
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Hadoop and IBM do Big Data in the Cloud
I have just started to look at Hadoop, which " ... enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired byGoogle'sIBM...
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Launching Ketchup on Facebook
For their most avid fans, Heinz is launching some new flavors of Ketchup on Facebook. An interesting example or relatively low involvement products. But they...
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Short History of the Web at Work
How the web has powered work for 20 years. A brief view of the history and its implications. It seems like it has been much longer. What is next?
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Changing How Doctors and Patients Interact
I have been examining exactly this question recently. Is it as simple as SMS messages? My doctor has a problem with the privacy issue.
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Procter & Gamble's Pixel Visualization Room
From the SAS ComBlog: A description of an effort at Procter & Gamble to provide data visualization and analytics support: "... P&G colleagues collaborate in what...
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Predictive Analytics Resources
I attended an IBM seminar on predictive methods a few weeks ago. I thought it was well constructed and worth while. In reviewing some of their material I seePrediction...
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Future of Privacy in a GPS World
With GPS attached to phone and cars and even simpler devices, what is the future of locational privacy? What are the privacy implications? By Orin Kerr and others...
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IBM Free Big Data Tablet Tool
IBM Offers Free Big Data Analysis Tool for iPads. I have recently been looking at tools for tablets that make data easy to visualize quickly. Will take a look...
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Zakta as a Social Curation Platform
I have mentioned Zakta a number of times here, I have communicated with some of the founders of the idea from inside and outside the enterprise for years. They...
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Natural User Search Interfaces
In CACM: On 'Natural' Search User Interfaces: Users will speak rather than type, watch video rather than read, and use technology socially rather than alone...
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John McCarthy, Father of AI and Lisp Dies
We met John McCarthy at Stanford University, sometime in the 1980s. He was a very enthusiastic promoter of AI and in particular the use of game playing systems...
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Your Business Channel
Newly brought to my attention YourBusiness Channel. See also their blog.A hub for business expertise ... yourBusinessChannel produces and distributes TV quality...
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Pharma Effects Data Sourcing
In Fastcompany: Adverse Events: Why Big Pharma Is Scared Of This Startup. " ... AdverseEvents, Inc. (AEI) is the first service provider to deliver accurate, real...
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Symphony IRI Group
I was recently reminded of Symphony IRI Group. " ... Helping the world
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Decision Management Systems: Rules and Analytics
Business Rules and Predictive analytics from SAP. Link to an excerpt from a forthcoming book that I am looking at now. This topic has been much in my mind of...
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Patents Emerge As Significant Tech Strategy
I have see some evidence of this recently. Even among the smaller players. Good review of recent big company patent related events ... " ... Several experts say...
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Deploying Cloud Computing
On deploying cloud computing. I had always thought this was easy, just point to other places for your data and services. But it is not really quite that simple...
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Lateral Marketing
Philip Kotler speaks about Lateral Marketing. In Innovation Excellence. Good thoughts.
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