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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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Decoding Words from Brain Signals
In the ACM and From the University of Utah: Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals. A development that takes the granularity of understanding the brain to...
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Changing Lights Turns off the Lights
Carpe Diem points us to the unintended consequences of green legislation. Incandescent bulbs will no longer be legal by 2014. The replacement CFLs are mostly manufactured...
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Retailnet Group in India
I recently had a conversation with Keith Anderson of the Retailnet Group. We worked with them a few years ago. He is now just back from India where he did an excellent...
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How Many Careers?
Appropriate for post labor day. How many careers does the average person have in a lifetime? Seven is often mentioned, and I have used that approximation in anIn...
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Will the Smartphone be the Computer?
In Gigaohm: A question I have been asking myself for a few years. Will the computer of the future be the little device we carry around today? True, the keyboards...
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Nike IPhone Running App
You may remember much earlier in the days of the Web Nike had experimented with this idea, but without Apps or GPS. Our New Business Deveopment team talked todetailed...
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Review and Advertising Policy
Readers, Publishers, Vendors,I have had an increasing number of requests to have advertising links placed in this blog.In general I do not take advertising that...
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Study Habits
A good piece in the NYT Views on study habits. Are people left brain vs right brain? Visual versus analytical learners? This is important not only for kids in school...
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Robotics Newsletter
NASA has a new robotics newsletter, via IEEE. In the most recent edition they point to a piece by Marvin Minsky on Telepresence. We met with Minsky and read lots...
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IPad Review by Small Biz Labs
The Small Business Labs blog looks at and and reviews the IPad from the perspective of the small business. In particular about its value as a means to consume rather...
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Clean Water for a Billion People
Our enterprise did considerable work in clean water projects, and won an Amex competition on delivering clean water. I acted as an analyst for the World Bank on...
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Debating a Signaling Model of Education
In the enterprise we used to talk about how many people joined our company simply to 'get their ticket punched'. Based on my own conversations with some people...
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Putting People First
A good blog on Futures and Design: Daily Insights on User Experience Design and People Centered Innovation. From Experientia, a global experience design consultancy...
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GS1 Mobile Comm Resource
I have been recommending the GS1 Mobile Comm space and newsletter as an excellent source of information about mobile retail development for some time. We have been...
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Changing Mobile Landscape
Dave Knox shares a presentation via Jim Cuene of General Mills on the changing mobile landscape. Well done. See also: Cuene's blog.
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Dark Silicon and Smartphone Batteries
I have had discussions with several friends lately about the increasing complexity of smartphones and the contribution of that to short battery life. So I bitThe...
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Ingenuity Advisors
A local company of interest that I recently talked to: Ingenuity Advisors. " ... We offer a strategy book honed by decades of experience battling in a myriad of...
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Stephen Few on Bullet Graphs
Stephen Few at the recent Tableau users conference talks about bullet graphs. I have been a user of Tableau systems for years, in and outside of the enterprise....
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