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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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Wolfram Alpha and the IPhone 5
Some interesting speculation that the IPhone 5 will contain several AI capabilities, including the Wolfram Alpha natural language data reasoning application.
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Smartphone as a Dangerous Possession
In CNN Money, Your Smartphone as your most dangerous posssesson. Overplayed, yes, but each of the cautions about the security of your data and devices is worth...
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Looking at Business Intelligence
I continue to enjoy Doug Lautzenheiser's blog: Business Intelligence Software, where he provides his insightful " ... personal opinions on the Business Intelligence...
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Effectiveness of Distributed Teams
This is something we wrestled with a number of times. Experience did seem to show that a team should be co located to achieve the best effectiveness. Though the...
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Literary Allusion and Google
In Roughtype, a good piece on literary allusion and the effect of things like Google Search on communicating. We live in a world where fewer and fewer of the classics...
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Cellular Automata
New book on a favorite topic, Cellular Automata, by Thomas M. Li The paradigm was used in the enterprise. Too expensive to assure that I will acquire this,...
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Private Data Analysis
In the CACM: A Firm Foundation for Private Data Analysis. What does it mean to preserve privacy? There is lots to do here.
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Sell to Your Customer's Buying Process
Another book added to the stack: Slow Down, Sell Faster!: Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales, by Kevin Davis. We always tried...
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Why of Buy, How of Buy
IMedia Connections interviews Donna Sturgess of Buyology Inc. about what her company does to understand the non conscious interactions of consumer to media and...
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Global Economy in 2011
A good piece in Knowledge at Wharton about key aspects and directions of of the global economy in countries such as India and China. Particularly useful for...
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Social Media Field Guide
I see that former colleague Krista Neher's new book: The Social Media Field Guide, is now out. Much more here and ordering information. Also see her excellent...
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Locating and Engaging the In-Store Shopper
Newly alerted to ZuluTime, they have an online video that is worth looking at, more exploration and comments to follow: " ... Locate and Engage the In-Store Shopper...
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New Tools for Understanding the Brain
In Science Daily via Stan Dyck: " ... UCLA neuroscientists have now collaborated with physicists to develop a non-invasive, ultra-high-speed microscope that can...
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Smart Fabrics are Now Washable
Baseline article on the washability of smart fabrics. This had always been a barrier for the broader us of this technology.
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Innovation Speed Dating at Kimberly Clark
In Consumer Goods Technology (CGT): A major competitor of my former enterprise is doing some intriguing innovative work: " ... Kimberly-Clark recently used an...
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Exploring Intersections Between Semantics and the Cloud
Forging an interesting relationship between an SAP supported research institute and semantic data management and search. How the Cloud is specifically brought...
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Retail and Smartphones
Short local piece on the increasing use of linking smartphone Apps and coupons in retail. Nothing new here, except that people and the press are starting to take...
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Sell to Their Shopping Lists
Good piece from Herb Sorensen's Views site. Read the whole thing.Sell to Their "Shopping Lists" (Tell'em Which to Buy!)December 20, 2010 - by Herb Sorensen, Ph...
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Wharton Consumer Analytics Initiative
This is good news, I was impressed by what I saw the Interactive Media Initiative doing. Very empirically data based. They ask for the data! Certainly the previous...
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