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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's Evolution in the Enterprise
In Computerworld - Social computing is among the most disruptive technologies making their way into the enterprise. The ever-growing number of users in social networks...
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Wikipedia: Good Faith Collaboration?
Cory Doctorow review of Joseph Reagle Jr's Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Many people now depend on Wikipedia for better or worse. How does...
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Group Dynamics Killing Innovation
Provocative thoughts, from Knowledge@Wharton: " ... To come up with the next iPad or Amazon, the pacesetters of the future need solitary brainstorming time, according...
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Wal-Mart and Teradata
Wal-Mart enhances its data warehouse agreement with Teradata. In Consumer Goods Technology.
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Value Creation
From Bain & Company's newsletter: Value creation becomes more important than ever by Bain partners Alan Hirzel, Charles Tillen and senior director of Bain's private...
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Robotics Improving Egg Safety
A short piece on the increasing use of robotics for egg handling and examination, leading to fewer damage problems.
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Music as a Gateway to AI
Does avant garde music provide a gateway to artificial intelligence?
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IBM Touts Predictive Analytics
Having worked in this area for years, I have to agree. The emergence of search has sometimes inappropriately substituted fast and easy for 'right'. Good article...
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Facebook vs Twitter Infographic
Colleague Stan Dyck sends along an infographic from digital surgeons of statistics about Facebbok versus Twitter in 2010. Nicely done. It catches your attention...
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Nestle's Lok towards Health
Nestle looks at deeper, health related aspects of food science. Good detailed article in the WSJ.
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On the Failure of Social Media
GigaOm on the failure of social media campaigns. I agree that it is far to early to predict when these campaigns will succeed or fail. Some good directional thoughts...
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Sharing Your Car
In another innovative personal transportation market, reported in Wired, you can share your car for cash. : " ... RelayRides lets car owners set their own rates...
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An App for an Airport
I reported previsously on developing specialized Apps for conferences. Here is another example of something similar: A specialized App for an airport, here San...
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Ontoprise
Brought to my attention and reviewing: Ontoprise. " ... is a leading independent software vendor for industry-proven Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and...
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Body Browser
Just took a look at the Google Body Browser Beta. It requires WebGL, such as that included in the new Chrome Beta. Other options at the link. Nicely done ......
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Private Car Networks
In MF Perry's blog on the natural emergence of markets: A car network that works from a smartphone: " ... "Request a car by telling Uber where you are. Text us...
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Ad Injection for Mobile Advertising
Recently in the Metaio Newsletter: " .... San Francisco / Munich, December 9th, 2010 - junaio, currently seen by many experts as the most advanced mobile Augmented...
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Imaginary Dieting
Thinking about eating can be filling? Research ongoing in this space: In the NYT: Real Evidence for Diets That Are Just Imaginary
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Word Lens Translation App
I have worked with machine translation in Google and also with high end translation systems. The result is never perfect. They can often but not always give you...
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