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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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Counting Unknown Hierarchical Kinds
A discovered technical paper just published in Language Log. About how to estimate kinds of things that exist in a hierarchical organizations. The initial posed...
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How Algorithms Shape Our World
Interesting TED video on the advance of algorithms. A very skeptical view of their value. As someone who has dealt with them for a long time I see much misunderstanding...
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The Athena Project
I just discovered Christian Renaud's Athena Project: " ... The Athena Project is being developed to engage 21stCentury students using virtual learning environments...
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Public Domain Review
So with all the knowledge out there on the Web, what is really out there in the public domain? Copyright laws continue to extend the extent of protection. Ororphaned...
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The Future of Tablets
A ComputerWorld look at a number of innovations that will lead to changes in tablet design and function.
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AI Patent For Data Optimization in Workplace
Great to hear, congratulations to Mark Montgomery, who I have corresponded with for years. Read the whole thing on the link below. See also theKYield site. ...
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Promoting Creativity
In the Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge: All about promoting creativity. " ... We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and...
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Using Badges in Games
Properly Using Badges To Engage Customers. Some good thoughts on how to use the concept of 'badges' when doing gamification. I still have my doubts about using...
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Harvard Innovation Lab
Harvard starts a technology lab. There was an IBM ad some time ago which made fun of having to set aside a place to do innovation. Certainly it can be done...
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We Are the Web
Are we the web? In GigaOm. " ... Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged
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Chiquita Rio Gamification Case Study
Met recently with Nancy Koors at Empower and she pointed me to this video case study of the Chiquita Rio gamification example that they created. Note the movie...
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Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Transcript: ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support ...
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Google Effects on Memory
It has been debated now for some time. It reminds me of the debate when calculators first became common. Will we forget how to perform arithmetic functions if...
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Contemporary Bayes
New on a favorite topic: 'The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two...
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Airlines Testing Tablets as Flight Bags
Delta and other are looking at tablets as a means to deliver knowledge to pilots. More fragile than paper, need to be charged, probably lighter net than a stack...
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Machine Learning Development Kits
More biologically inspired Intelligence, recently saw this. Have not looked at it in any detail but the idea of plug in machine learning is something we alsoai...
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A Colleague Mentions the Hapax Legomenon
The dreaded Hapax Legomenon is mentioned and I have to look it up. Nothing to do with children's building blogs or Greek Gods. Its a kind of 'black swan' of literature...
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P&G Using Consumer Generated Media
This has not happened very often: P&G leverages consumer-generated media "Life Opens Up," a Procter & Gamble campaign for Crest and Oral-B, uses consumer-generated...
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Patient Navigators
And if needed, the patient circle can be choreographed by the patient navigator, something I am thinking about now.
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