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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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Jumping the Shark
I had not known the origin of the term 'jumping the shark', a perceived instantaneous loss of significance, which has been increasingly used of late. Discovered...
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New World of Vending
In USA Today: Good overview look at how vending is changing with the increasing use of alternative methods of payment beyond coins and bills. Broad phone-as-wallet...
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Blogs Bringing in Investors and Clients
There has been some writing about how blogging is dead. I disagree, I often read company or analyst blogs to better understand their methods and directions. It...
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TagWhat Launched
Tagwhat has been launched. Tagwhat Publishing at Places is here. We're excited to announce Tagwhat location-based publishing! Beginning today, you can easily...
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Social Manufacturing
When I saw this term I did not understand what it was about. Check out this post for more about the details, players in the space and what it is meant to do. Kenandy...
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WellPoint Meet Watson
More on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques for medical diagnosis. I happen to be visiting the offices of WellPoint this afternoon. Note the mention...
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On Marketing Automation
In E-Commerce Times: " ... There is a lot of hype around marketing automation, and it's for good reason. An effective marketing automation strategy and implementation...
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More Efficient Crowdsourcing Models
In the ACM:" ... In recent years, crowdsourcing has gained more adherents as governments, businesses, and others aim to tap into the collective wisdom of crowds...
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Master Class on the Science of Human Nature
In The Edge: This looks very good. " ... Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman on the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking; Harvard mathematical biologist...
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Crowd Sourcing Open Innovation with Lego
From Innovation Excellence: " ... Yes, you gotta love Lego! Not only is the company doing amazingly well during this
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Cosmetics of Youth
A piece in the local paper about a scientist at P&G that is working on Olay solutions." ... As a senior scientist at P&G's Miami Valley labs, her work won't even...
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Google Changes their Algorithm
Algorithmic improvements at Google. Its good to watch what Google is doing to know what you are getting. Are you getting more quality sites today? I find myself...
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OneRiot Joins WalMart Labs
In a new development., in Techcrunch. Also see OneRiot's Blog. " ... Walmart has acquired OneRiot, a mobile and social ad targeting startup. Financial terms...
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Designing Products for an Internet of Things
In GigaOM. I have observed quite a bit of product design, and except for slapping a standard bar code on an item, and testing that code with a number of hand scanners...
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Predictive Perspectives Seminar
I attended the IBM/SPSS seminar today. Jason Verlen, Director of IBM/SPSS gave the keynote address that well positioned the use of predictive techniques in business...
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SAP and Specialized Analytics Appliances
An interesting development. A number of such applications are addressing real time applications that gather large amounts of information.SAP rolls out new in-memory...
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How Many Pages on the Internet
I like numbers. Have heard many estimates over the years. Billions at first. Trillions some say. Now a new effort is underway to estimate the size of the net...
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IBM's Watson Does Diagnoses
Another piece about uses for the IBM Watson Computer. Once again, patient diagnosis was an early application for artificial intelligence. In particular pulmonary...
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9/11 Myths
A few years ago I had the displeasure of talking to a person who was absolutely convinced of and promoting several of the prominent 9/11 myths. Damaging and disturbing...
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