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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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Social Computing and Cultural Modeling
In the July /August 2011 IEEE Intelligent Systems. Emphasises Social Computing and Cultural Modeling. Just reviewing. Not all of the content of this publication is...
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P&G North American Planning Service Center
P&G Opens a new North American Planning Service Center in the Cincinnati area today. "The work involves planning the on-time delivery of millions of P&G products ...
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An Overview of Business Intelligence (BI) Technology
In CACM: A very good definition and overview of BI. In my own conversations with executives and other decision makers, I have seen considerable confusion in this...
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What Does G+ Mean for Search Marketing?
Very detailed and interesting look at the apparent behind the scene motives for Google's jumping into Social. And this point, apparently successfully so ... "...
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Kyield and In Memory Databases
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes about HANA and KYield for better outcomes. (HANA is a high performance in-memory database product from SAP. )" ... Data Speed...
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Computable Document Format
Wolfram Research announces a new document called the CDF. In an intriguing development the new document, is computable. I like the general idea. There were...
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Free P&G Virtual Beauty App
This was something we explored a number of times, starting with CD Rom based delivery, then from the Web, then including in-mall camera kiosks. Has the time of...
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Exploring Game Dynamics Talk
Gave a talk at Cincinnati Continuousweb last night to about 50 people. Thanks to all that attended. Nice assortment of startup and corporate types attended. The...
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Google Killing Labs?
I have been impressed with what has come out of Google Labs. True that only 10% is useful to the average user, but that is not a bad percentage. And I am sure...
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A Replacement for Paper
Technology Review reports on a true replacement for paper. Very cheap and disposable too?
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Practical Game Design
An overview of practical game design teaching at Drexel University. Not the kind of game I am particularly interested in, which is not so much the view ... but...
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Food Private Label Continues Rise
Inevitable I think: From Food Processing:" ... The writing is on the wall
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Affective Senses Emotion
We have followed some of the work on measuring emotion from facial expression, here from MIT spin off Affectiva. We tested their methods pioneered at the Media...
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Social Media for Customer Service. Infographic Impression
ReadwriteWeb on the topic via an Infographic. The topic itself is interesting.The infographic use is confusing. At first I thought it was an ad. Then noticed...
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Wal-Mart
Excellent post by MJ Perry about Wal-Mart as the most successful retailer in history. Some fascinating stats on the retailer and its operation.
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Model Based Recommendation Agent
I became interested in a new recommendation smartphone App called Alfred, which recommends restaurants, etc, It is glowingly described and reviewed in ReadwriteWeb...
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Renting Textbooks
Now you can rent textbooks from Amazon via Kindle and Kindle Apps. ReadwriteWeb reports that is not cheaper than buying a used textbook. The market will likely...
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Games Talk: Serious Play
I will be giving a talk this Wednesday July 20, at 6:30 PM in the Cincinnati area on the use of serious game mechanics. Providing details of a number of examples...
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eLearning and Serious Games
Heather Thomas at the Trivantis blog has posted a good article on the use of game mechanics for eLearning. Making learning immediately rewarding and inspiring...
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