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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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Great Mancession
Economist Mark J Perry makes the case that there is a great mancession going on. The WSJ interactive graphs show it. Yet we dare not mention it out loud.
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World Without E-Mail
One man's vision, a world without e-mail. Replacing 90% of your email with social software. Would that work for the typical person online?
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Household Robotics in Japan
An area we looked at closely. Aiming to include in home-of-the-future applications. An aging population may need many help-mate robots in the future. Japan is...
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Creating Knowledge from Incident Reports
Creating knowledge from events. It is like fitting a line through a number of points. Very valuable, but needs to be carefully done. We experimented with after-action...
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Future Internet Architecture
From the CACM: On the future architecture of the Internet. Should it evolve or should we wipe the slate clean?
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Flying Drones into a Hurricane
We are gaining an increasing knowledge of 3D Space. The obvious examples are military, but I am glad to see that drones are starting to be applied in the air to...
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NCR Deli Ordering Systems at Big Y
We experimented with kiosk based deli ordering systems in our store innovation spaces. It's an obvious application rather than having people stand in line. IBMHere...
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Smart Postage Stamp
In the UK the Royal Mail has launched the first 'smart stamp'. More at the BBC. It utilizes the Junaio system on a smartphone (which is required to see the effect)...
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SAS Predictive Analytics
SAS has rolled out predictive analytics for business users. " ... a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics....
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Tesco Trials Drive Through Supermarket
Long time readers of this blog will remember that we examined this topic sometime ago and talked to the group building a system in the US: Autocart. Now Tesco announces...
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MHealth Summit
Upcoming, the summit on Mobile health, it turns out that Mobile health means two different things:" ... The National Institutes of Health to Lead 2 of 7 Concurrent...
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Outdoor Augmented Reality
On augmented reality in the outdoors. Makes sense to use it to understand your broader environment. In ReadWriteWeb: " ... How many times have you been driving...
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Myers-Briggs Skeptically Viewed
In my years at the big enterprise I took the Myers-Briggs test at least a half dozen times. The results always interesting, largely self-affirming. I always had...
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MacroWikinomics
I see that Don Tapscott's new book: MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World is about to come out. We were interviewed for his previous book Wikinomics...
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K-Anonymity Privacy Models
In CACM: Privacy protection models for large databases. " ... The "K-anonymity" method of providing anonymity to large data sets has raised excitement in realms...
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AisleBuyer on CNBC
Andrew Paradise has sent along a link about his Aislebuyer venture in the news on CNBC. A great example of in-store shopper convenience and engagement via smartphones...
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Hannaford's Site
In Progressive Grocer: Hannaford grocer revamps their site to include a number of mobile friendly ideas. Another example of mobile to retail plays. Expect to see...
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Yield Management of Knowledge
Mark Montgomery of KYield posts about Realizing the Theory: Yield Management of Knowledge. He defines it as: " ... Yield Management of Knowledge: The process by...
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Managing Social Media Presence
A short article on how to manage time for social media presence. Mostly common sense, but also worth a look.
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