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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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Enhanced EBooks
Have been looking at how HTML5 will ultimately influence publishing online. A friend sent me this O'Reilly piece on EPUB3, which is worth looking at. We needEPUB3...
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Customer Loyalty Programs
HBS Working Knowledge on Customer Loyalty Programs that Work. " ... The customer rewards cards that clutter wallets and clog key chains of many a shopper may soon...
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Restaurants Using Google Places
An interesting example of how location based systems like Google Places can be used for franchise restaurants.
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On the Experience of Learning
From Experientia. A review of what learning is all about. " ... Learning is a complex process with distinct stages, each with corresponding tasks and emotions....
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Wal-Mart Movie Streams
After a considerable delay Wal-Mart is integrating its purchased movie streaming service Vudu into Walmart.com. Reported in some detail in e-Commerce Times. "...
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Robot Film Festival
IEEE Spectrum presents: A Robot Film Festival. Nice selection that gives some hint at the future of robotics.
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On the Rise of Self Checkouts
A non technical article from Today. About the rise of self checkouts in retail. Also discusses the surprising removal of them from Albertsons stores, which I...
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HTML5 is Coming Fast
Most interesting, will it make Adobe's Flash irrelevant?" ,,, The tech industry
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Grapheur
Just taking a look at this relatively new data mining tool: Grapheur" ... The flexible and powerful Data Mining and Interactive Visualization tool. Import,...
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Best in Class: Cincinnati Consulting Consortium
Dick Bruder, of the CCC sends the following. I know a number of the executives who work for the CCC, impressive group:Did You Know?? ?P&G is consistently ranked...
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Examples of Wearable Video
Here some examples of wearable video technology in Amazon. We looked at this for applications in retail.
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The Paradox of Common Sense
Another inspiration from SFI, Duncan Watts, who led us indirectly to things like Tremor. Here a new article leading to his forthcoming book on the connections...
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Swarm Intelligence
We were introduced to the concept of swarm intelligence by the Santa Fe Institute. Here they link to a video using the common example of ants. Individually simple...
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Skin as an Interactive Canvas
In CACM: Had seen some related examples of this. An on-skin body input and display system. Very clever thought. Skin as an interactive canvas. Abstract...
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Changing the Rules of Education
In Wired. With the Kahn Academy. At first I thought of this as a sort of home schooling for motivated people of any age. But based on this article it seems...
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Packaging and Neuromarketing
Roger Dooley on packaging and the use of neuromarketing techniques, with some useful examples.
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Apple Prospers for US While Assembly Happens Overseas
Good article in Mike Perry's blog on the value of overseas assembly for a US company like Apple. Making the case that globalization has real benefits. They comments...
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Seeking Smartphone Moms
Important demographic. In my own observations it appears that more women are using smartphones now and the understanding of this is key. Manufacturers aremy recent...
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iPad University
USC tries to set up a complete University interface based on a tablet. I just saw the movie 'The Social Network', and apparently the players there just not think...
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