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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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Global Businesses Align to Provide Accurate Consumer Data
I am surprised this has not been done methodically long ago. It is becoming very important as shoppers need to get accurate data in-store. It is also key for...
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Forbes on R Software
In the Forbes blog. Excellent article on the open source R statistical package. The visualization capabilities are emphasized. I agree that it is the package...
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Digital Coupon Use Soars
In Progressive Grocer, an overview article on the increasing use of digital coupons, with quite a few useful statistics. With the increasing use of smartphones...
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Adjusting Your Google Privacy
In Ars Technica, an article about the many privacy settings available for Google users. I use many Google services and am concerned about the privacy I give up...
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New Standard for Supercomputing
In the CACM: Sandia Labs will be delivering a new proposed set of standards for Supercomputing today which is more closely related to the kinds of tasks that are...
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Brandery Opens New Start-ups
Thr Brandery launches six new startups in Cincinnati. In Dave Knox's blog.
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Japan Inc's Regrowth
Bain Inc writes about the reenergization of Japan Inc. I followed Japan in the 90's in the area of artificial intelligence ... A view of their direction and...
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Curation vs Aggregation
A good piece on the very idea of the human network. Remember us? I think there is much to be said for linking together human and Internets in new ways. There...
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A Robot's Body of Knowledge
An article in IEEE Spectrum showing robots doing common household tasks inspired me to think again about our own experiments with robots in the enterprise. Like...
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Mathematica 8 Allows Natural Language Input
This is a pretty remarkable development: " ... With the release of Mathematica 8 today, the single most dramatic change is that you don
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Tweeting Students Get Higher Grades
In the Chronicle of Higher Education. An interesting study, but this could likely encounter the 'causal fallacy'. It is likely that many other aspects of context...
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Google and Near Field Communications Support
Google announces that versions of the Android mobile operating system will include NFC (Near Field Communications) support. NFC enables short range, about 10...
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Facebook Mail
I have been a user of Gmail for years, and find it very serviceable. When people try to contact me with Mail systems within other packages, Linkedin comes to mind...
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Shopalong by Kroger CEO
Shopalong research consists of a retail and CPG executives visiting a store incognito and seeing their venues the way a shopper sees them. A good AP article on...
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Wikipedia Seeking $16 Million
In Readwriteweb: Wikipedia is seeking $16 Million to remain a free service. Certainly the most successful public wiki service and well worth that amount. That...
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Businesses that Smartphones are Replacing
This list is fairly obvious. It is interesting to think about what markets the smartphone is changing markedly. In the end it is all about have a small, powerful...
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Numbers Rule Your World
A good review of the new book: Numbers Rule Your World: the hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do , by Junk Charts blogger Kaiser...
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On the Santa Fe Institute
I was the enterprise's representative to the well known Santa Fe Institute for several years. Was always interesting, sometimes directly useful. Mark Montgomery...
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Tufte Library being Auctioned
Visual graphic data design guru Edward Tufte's library of design resources is being auctioned by Christies on December 2.
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