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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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Disney Advertising Lab
Roger Dooley on the Disney Advertising and Media Lab. Surprised they were not doing this earlier. " .. As much as we hear about neuro-cinema and neuro-enhanced...
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Science of Business
Evocative piece by always interesting Steve Miller in Information Management:" ... A recent MIT article is making blogger/analyst Steve Miller question whether...
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Tobii Prototype Eye Controlled Laptop
The well known eye-tracking company Tobii is a likely origin to this kind of innovation. I would like to understand how stable the control of a laptop can beTobii...
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Disarming Internet Trolls
A cognitive therapy method to disarming Internet Trolls. A method that differs from the old approach of not feeding them.
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Ted Nelson and Content Syndication
We followed the activities and writing of Ted Nelson since the early days of hyperlinks. Met him at a meeting at the Insititute for the Future. More on his latest...
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Too Much Information, A Brain activity study
Some interesting questions to ask, from an article in Newsweek:I Can
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Literally True
A lovely look at the meaning and uses of the term 'literally' in the Language Log. As usual, the LL is not pedantic as you might think, looking at language as...
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Shortened Links Slowing the Web
Via ACM. Are a number of link-shortening capabilities slowing the web? A strange case of unexpected side-effects of a popular capability.
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Echo Nest
There are 30 million songs stored at the Echo Nest. So what are they good for? Intriguing article at Fast Company.
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New Burden on Retail Infrastructure
A good e-Commerce Times article brings up the issue of how retail infrastructures can be weighted down by any number of new transactions that may be required by...
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Message Minus Meaning
Nick Carr discusses Message Minus Meaning in his review of James Gleick's new book: The Information. We now gather, update, use and mis-use and store more information...
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Dealing with Presentation Nerves
In the Presentation Zen Blog. With some emphasis on Steve Jobs as an example of a casual, conversational approach.
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Bing Aggregates Coupons
Microsoft builds a coupon aggregator into their search engine Bing. ' ... "This is a savvy move on Microsoft's part," said Azita Arvani, principal of the Arvani...
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Conducting a Virtual Choir
The following is pretty remarkable. A virtual choir. Play the video. Now if we could only do the same thing with a conductor/manager performing in front of a...
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Robonaut 2
Launched into space, a humanoid robot. Not sure what the humanoid aspects gets you exactly besides overblown implications about it 'thinking' and being autonomous...
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Post PC World
Engadget editorial about how Apple is creating a post-pc world. They are sure selling a lot of things. And doing that very well. But are they really new ideas? ...
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Four New CIO Types
In Readwriteweb: It is suggested that " ... Chief "Infrastructure" Officers, Chief "Integration" Officers, Chief "Intelligence" Officers, and Chief "Innovation"...
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A New Kind of Consulting
Of interest, related to my recent note on social networks in the enterprise. CapGemini is reorganizing to use social networks to do consulting. Also, consultancy...
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RStudio for R
RStudio: A new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that looks to make coding easier for the open source statistics language R. Much more here.
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