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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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Bradley Efron Says it Simply
A very good interview with Stanford statistics prof Bradley Efron in Significance Magazine. I was sent a PDF, but I see it is regrettably behind a pay wall. There...
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Procter Focus on Sales and Innovation
In the Cincinnati Enquirer: P&G outlines focus on sales and innovation at the Wall Street Meeting in Cincinnati yesterday. A good outline of company direction...
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Mechanical Turk Challenged by Spam
We used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to successfuly solve several human intelligence tasks in the enterprise. Unfortunately it is now reported that a large percentage...
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Retailers and In Store Smart Phones
A very good article in the WSJ about the increasing use of smartphones in stores to compare prices and other information about products via search and barcode scanning...
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Blogging has Peaked Says Pew Report
In ReadwriteWeb: It importantly varies by demographic, but the Pew Internet Report appears to indicate that the frequency of Blogging appears to have peaked on...
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NGram Visualization Tool
New from Google Labs, the ability to plot the usage of words or phrases in Google's huge and growing scanned corpora of text. Easy to use and simple to applyThe...
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Geo-Fenced Advertising in Test
Intriguing direction that could provide better shopper behavior and location understanding. For example this could be used to understand when a shopper enters...
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Humans vs Computers in Jeopardy
An interesting artificial intelligence challenge. This has been planned for a few years now, here is new information about an IBM computer challenging a human...
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Procter Move to Social Media
ReadwriteWeb posts about P&G's move from Soap Operas to Social Media. This is a very thin article, but worth a scan. Wish they had looked for and provided more...
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Future of Neuromarketing
Some interesting points on the changes in market research and how neuroscience will effect the industry:Market Research Industry Continues Transformation as Business...
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Dole and Price Chopper Use QR
There has been much in the news lately about the use of QR codes in Grocery. In this latest example, covered briefly in Supermarket News, Dole and Price Chopper...
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mCosm Facebook Page
I see that mCosm, who worked with us in the enterprise and innovation centers and has been written about a number of times in this blog, now has a Facebook page...
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Visualizing 500 Million Facebook Members
In the BBC, an article on visualizing all of the world facebook connections. What is driven home here is the impressive density of the connections world-wide. ...
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Maps for That: Crowdsourcing Your Mind
Mindjet a vendor of mind mapping software that I have successfully used in the past, has come out with a map sharing site called Maps-for-that. Nice idea. The...
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Library Science Blogs
Brought to my attention for some work I am doing regarding cataloging and classification: 50 Excellent Library Science Blogs Worth Reading.
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iPads and Archaeology
Doug Lautzenheiser gives another example of iPad usage, in one of my favorite areas of interests, Archaeology. As a means of simply gathering information as one...
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Vinimaya Introduces New Capabilities
I have mentioned the Vinimaya virtual marketplace package in this blog a number of times. Talked to them about their system. A number of new capabilities have...
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Google Latitude App
Introduced for the IPhone, the Google Latitude App. What this does is share information about the locations of friends that permit it. Obvious applications for...
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