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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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Digital Media Measurement
Accurate measurement is important:Why Measurement Is Still Screwing Up the Online Ad Business " ... Digital media measurement is a mess, and we're all responsible...
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Human Centric Analysis
Well known visualization guru Stephen Few on human centric analysis." ... All of the traditional BI software vendors and most of the industry
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Data Storm in mHealth
Mark Montgomery of KYield continues his insightful writing about issues in mHealth. Make sure to read the whole thing: " ... Imagine the gasp from the family physician...
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Keeping Retiree Knowledge in the Game
Keeping knowledge in the company is an increasingly difficult task. It is a key part of the whole process called knowledge management. Where is the knowledge...
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Capturing the Biometrics of Motion
In the RFID Journal, a development with a number of interesting applications. Michigan Researchers Develop RFID-based Sensors to Measure Physical ActivityThe system...
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More on IBM and Netezza
O'Reilly has more on the acquisition of Netezza by IBM. In particular about the implications of its use for big data. " ... t's not just the marketers that are...
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Procter Unveils New Drinking Water Effort
Announcement below, see also the Children's Safe Drinking Water Program site:"Procter & Gamble unveils global drinking water effortProcter & Gamble Co. is expanding...
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On Localization and Globalization
Colleague Donna Sturgess in Am Marketing Assoc Journal, Via Melissa Hobley at Buyology Inc: " .... a great article attached in the new Amerian Marketing Association...
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Bunchball Nitro: A Gamification example
In my recent Gamification post I received a comment from Rajat Paharia, the founder of Bunchball. He recently gave a talk on Gamification and Behavioral Economics...
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WiFi vs 3G at Panera Bread
This GigaOM article answered some questions I have had about how people access their increasingly large datastream. I always use WiFi at home and have helped several...
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IBM Acquires Netezza
We see that IBM has acquired the database appliance maker Netezza. You may recall I have a short engagement with Netezza last year. Here is what I have written....
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Devine Employee Behavioral Assessment
Had a meeting with an interesting company, Devine Group, that links potential employees to what they can really do best. Have always been interested in the modeling...
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Xerox Parc Turns 40
A good CW piece on the innovation that has come out of Xerox Parc. We visited them a number of times and were always impressed by what we saw. Sometimes they are...
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Visualizing Big Data
The Wikibon Blog, fifteen examples of visualizing big data. Some interesting examples here that are worth looking at. Some beautiful graphics. Yet here I protest...
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GIS and Agent Based Modeling
An article from a while back that addresses how virtual worlds and agent based modeling can be linked together for research applications. Via Dave Cohen. This blog...
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Grasp Lab at Penn
I don't remember Penn being particularly well known for robotics work. Yet their Grasp lab (general robotics, automation, sensing and perception) around since 1979...
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Carrefour Reinventing the Hypermarket
An interesting piece that seems to indicate that Carrefour is taking a more revolutionary that evolutionary approach in design. Nice to see this direction. Considerable...
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Gamification!
It has been called 'serious games', 'total engagement', and collaborative competition. Now Russell Brumfield, who we worked with on a scent branding project, has...
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New Category Management Paradigm
Interbrand top 100 brand brand report and a new approach to category management. " .... Now, in 2010, we are seeing the starts and stops of a recovery coupled...
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