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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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Super Passwords
On creating super passwords. Work ongoing at Georgia Tech.
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Groupon Goes National
Continued emergence of online couponing. This and increasing mobile interaction with stores and other locations is clearly our future. Get ready. Follow Frenda's...
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Steering by Sniffing
New, to my knowledge, In the CACM:Device Lets Disabled Steer Wheelchair, Communicate by SniffingWeizmann Institute of ScienceA unique device based on sniffing
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Microindustries Checkout Director
MicroIndustries on their touch&Go Digital Signage. A classic problem. Including this new development: " ... Here at Micro Industries, we offer retailers one of...
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FM Radios Mandatory on Cells?
The buzz is out that there may be US laws enacted that require an FM receiver on ever cellphone. Essentially another subsidization of an industry, the broadcasting...
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Tom Peter's Slides
Sort of a Friday's assortment of things for contemplation. Tom Peters shares some of the slides he uses for presentations. Some interesting, some confusing, some...
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Developing Software for Digital Cameras
Open source software development for digital cameras. Great direction." ... "My hope is that this will shift the camera industry," says Stanford's Marc Levoy,...
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Railfax Data
A good example of using Tableau systems online, by Drew Robertson Summary of Rail Freight Traffic from Atlantic Systems Inc.Data through July 31, 2010 -- 30 W...
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Procter Future Friendly
Press Release: P&G Future Friendly Joins National Geographic Society, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD to Launch Interactive School Conservation Program...
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A First Look at Facebook Places
I downloaded the new Facebook IPhone App that includes the Places locational capability. It took about 24 hours before Places was implemented 'for my area'. It...
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Tags in Ducts
A curious little discovery about passive RFID tags, their read range can be extended by placing them in metal ducts. The ducts act as wave guides for the RF transmission...
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Jim Stengel's Blog
Was just reminded of the blog of Jim Stengel, former CMO of Procter & Gamble. Lot of useful thoughts there. Recent post " .... working as a consultant with Luxottica...
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On the Power of Choice
Marketing and merchandising are about choice. Is there too much or too little? How do we make the consumers choice the choice of our product? What separates one...
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Complex Adaptive Healthcare
Colleague Mark Montgomery posts in his Kyield blog about complex adaptive healthcare. Inspired by a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute. I was an enterprise representative...
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Utilizing Facebook's Public Data
Very interesting guest column in Readwriteweb on the leveraging of Facebook's Public data. Here on the eve of Facebook starting to gather location-based data and...
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The Truth About Wal-Mart RFID Plans
Nice piece in CGT. Worth reading. I find nothing very surprising here. Just that the latest writings indicated a specific set of plans, while previously only...
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Change Your Name to Avoid Cyber-Past
Eye opening, given that they are the enablers ... : Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt ... The private lives of...
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Airline Traffic Data
Have been following airline network traffic for some time. Fascinating compendium of May 2010 Airline Traffic Data. Via Mark Perry's blog, who has some comments...
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Simpler Solar
In the NYT ... a simpler, plug and play solar array system under development. Like to see these kinds of things.
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