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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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Adknowledge Moves Facebook Games to Web Portals
Interesting development includes monetization, which will probably see some more games appearing on sites. Is that good?
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Solving Food Deserts with WalMart
Mark Perry posts about the potential for companies like WalMart to address such problems as the recently coined 'food desert' issue, using Washington DC as an example...
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DemandTec and Dollar General
It has been a long time since I took a look at DemandTec for deep analytical applications like revenue management, promotion and assortment optimization. We looked...
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Enabling a Musem with Augmented Reality
An excellent example of augmented reality, enabling the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to use Google Goggles to get more information about the museum's holdings...
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Art of Game Design
In Process: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell. Have made my way through the introductory parts of the book. Very well done overview of...
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P&G Contributes Manufacturing Models
In the local press: Procter & Gamble has said they will contribute at no cost 3D process modeling programs to help create a ' manufacturing renaissance' in the...
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GeoIQ: Visualize and Analyze Real-Time Geo Data
I had the opportunity to look at a relatively new Geographical Information System: GeoIQ. Have worked on a number of company GIS projects and this looks to be...
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E-Books and Libraries
Good overview in ReadwriteWeb: More indications of if libraries will survive and what form they will take. Will they be in the Cloud with the rest of us? Or...
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Can Computers Communicate Visually?
Visualization Viewpoint in IEEE Computing Now, If they can, can we do the same working with them?Can Computers Master the Art of Communication? A Focus on Visual...
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Biologically Inspired Visual Search
And more about visual search. I worked on several projects in this area, and it is a difficult problem, though there have been advances in recent years." ... The...
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Similar Image Search
A good introduction to similar image search in Google, here applied to specific sites.
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Shopper Engagement Study
I am late to this but see the POPAI Shopper Engagement Study." ... Nearly 95% of decisions are made by the subconscious mind. Yet when it comes to understanding...
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Chrome Book: Future or the Past
I asked for a review copy of the Google Chromebook. Still waiting. A sleek new concept of a laptop, which contains no disk drive and little memory. Supportin...
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Stupidity is Contageous
In the WSJ: People feel and act smart if the are shown examples of intelligence. If they can identify or compare themselves to the examples they see. But as...
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All Passwords Are Weak
Depressing thoughts in this Tech Review article. Only one-time generated passwords are particularly strong. Will we all be condemned to remember all those passwords...
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Advertising Value Equivalents
In the WSJ blog: The Numbers Guy, by Carl Bialik: Now Much is this Blog Post Worth? Addressing how in the rush to measure things, quantitative measures are often...
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QR Codes
Doing some experiments with QR codes and their use in publications. Also the recognition of their use by the average consumer and their ability to use them. I...
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Ad Targeting via Social
This sounds scary to me. Targeting via what my network looks like.
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