Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creation Spaces Exchange Tacit Knowledge
Video from HBR on the Nokia Ideas project. This was something we explicitly intended to do with the creation of innovation centers. First to read realistic contexts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Book Sales Exceed Hardcover
Amazon reports in the NYT that E-book sales for books have exceeded hardcover sales. To be clear E-books sales have not exceeded all book sales, which include softcover...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Rx Database
Have followed WolframAlpha for a while. Key is having the right data to support a query. Sometimes it is there an sometimes not. the new introduction of Data for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking into States of Mind
I like Batelle's point about checking into things other than just location. Advertisers infer this today, does it make sense to make it more explicit? He writes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crash Course in Google Analytics
Though I have now used Google Analytics for years, I have not spent enough time understanding it and its value and limitations in depth. Here is a pointer to more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Manufacturers Private
So is this a bow to private label? Will they become a developer-manufacturer-marketer of many goods for retailers?Procter & Gamble boosts bet on exclusive brands...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brains as Game Controllers
In the BBC: This idea has been around for some time, but does not appear to have taken hold. Here Emotiv claims to have developed neural game control headsets that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center
This is new. I had thought there would be some complaints in self checkout, but the you always have to lift the heavy bags charcoal, or 24 packs of drnk out of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking Around in Proteins
Walking inside your data. I had a conversation with a guy from IBM about this kind of approach. He implemented a data walkaround in Second Life.Virtual Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buys Metaweb
In GigaOM: Google makes a big semantic acquisiton, buys Metaweb. " ... San Francisco-based Metaweb was founded by the widely admired Thinking Machines founder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Momentum Builds
I have now used Tableau Software's easy to use data visualization system for several years for a number of projects. It's a good approach to explore if you plan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Symbol for the Rupee
Mark Perry reports on the development of a symbol for the Indian Rupee, from a competitive market for currency design.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michael Osofsky on Innovation
Just brought to my attention: Michael Osofsky's blog musings on innovation, practice and theory. It is on my read.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ESRI BAO Demographic App
I am a big proponent of delivering visualizations of complex data on mobile devices. Why not have it on hand where you need it? Likely fully armed with data about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Behavior in Social Media
Blinq Media white paper executive outline and email request for the whole thing: User Behaviors in Online Social Network Applications Present Untapped Marketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Virtual Human
In the BBC: All sorts of interesting implications in cinema, storytelling, marketing and games. We will soon be at a place where the real and artificial are no...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Announces Free BI Tool
Clever marketing approach from Tibco, maker of Spotfire. Have not taken a look yet at exactly what it is yet. In ReadwriteWeb: " ... Tibco has launched a business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones as Checkouts
Very likely I think, it simplifies a number of things, and creates a new channel to the shopper. What are the implications for manufacturer and retailer?Smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle