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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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Kraft Foods and Business Intelligence
An article in Consumer Goods Technology on Kraft Food's use of Business Intelligence. " ... Kraft Foods discusses its voyage toward information access and analysis...
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Sloppy Arithmetic is Useful
In ACM: Some surprising results regarding the value of imprecise arithmetic and chips that can calculate imprecisely. Good article about potential applications...
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Motorola Splits
The split of the 83 year old company in two pieces is seen in a number of different ways. We worked with them in the early days of RFID and they provided some...
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Linkless Press Releases
Why do many press releases not include links to useful information, in particular to the release itself and the companies involved? Has always mystified me. Here...
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Knowledge Management in Fast Moving Industries
In HBR, a good article that scopes out various approaches for knowledge management. How formal do these approaches have to be? Or can they just observe in the...
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Getting Linked Data to Market
Article about this course is dated, but worth a look as to the direction of this work. I had always seen this as the most immediately useful aspect of the semantic...
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Big Data Scientists
In the Noisy Channel: About data scientists, what they hve been doing lately and their relationships to the increasing amounts of data all of us have been generating...
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Snap a Picture, Save a Stream
Creek Watch. A simple Smart Water effort via IBM uses a mobile phone application to gather data about stream conditions. Simple smart sensor application. It does...
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Earth Project Seeks to Simulate Everything
From the BBC: Quite a huge undertaking. Including always problematic aspects of human behavior ... " ... Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator, the project aims...
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Developing Robots for the Emergency Room
In CACM: Developing Robots for the hospital emergency room. I have worked on simulations of an operating room, which would be a good first step for this.
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What Networks Can Tell us About the World
Good overview video about using networks to understand systems they describe. Talk given at the Santa Fe Institute. The 2010 Ulam LectureNetworks and the World...
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100 Things to Watch
The Global Advertising Agency Jay Walter Thompson has put out a slide show on the 100 things to watch in 2011. Provocative and interesting.
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Custom QR Codes
An explosion of interest in using QR codes this past year. A Mashable piece on how to create your own custom QR codes. In the comment there is a good point about...
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Real Time Analytics Surge
My UK colleague sends along a link to a note about the increasing use of in memory data management, and it's implications to data infrastructure and center design...
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Disney Crowd Control Center
I mentioned the science of queuing theory here recently. In the late 70's I had a chance to meet with scientists at Disney theme parks to talk crowd control. ...
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Kurzweil Evaluates His Predictions
Ray Kurzweil evaluates the predictions he made in his book: The Age of the Spiritual Machine. I like futurist self evaluation, and he does it frankly and well.
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Skype IPhone App Includes Video
Engadget post on the update of Skype App which now includes video interaction in 3G and Wifi. Depending on quality could compete strongly with FaceTime.
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