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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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The Permanence of Social Data
How much should social network based strategies depend on data from the behavior of those sites? Evan Schuman writes about this in StoreFrontBacktalk. Most social...
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Carr vs Pinker
In Slashdot: Another look at the disagreement between the two Harvard associated thinkers Steven Pinker and David Carr. Does the availability of the Internet hurt...
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Who Owns the Data Model?
This topic recently came up in a meeting/ From Information Management.
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Pepsico Makes a Call for Innovation
In Consumer Goods Technology:" ... A new program welcomes outside innovation into the organization to push its marketing and communications expertise to new levels...
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Mind Over Mass Media
Always interesting Steven Pinker writes an opinion piece in the NYT entitled Mind over Mass Media. ' ... NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the...
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How Blind to Change are We?
From the BBC, via Richard James. A good piece about how neuroscience and artificial intelligence have been exploring how our filters work and don't work when we...
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Auctioning History Update
Based on messages received I know that some of you have been following my auction technology thread. I wrote about the Cowan auction of Lincoln history. That auction...
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Future of Education
Does this mean the commoditization of higher education? Once you have lots of training courses online, and a way to rate them AND a means to pay the teachers, will...
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Software Cost in Cars
Even our locomotion is getting more complex:How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars?by Sebastian Blanco Back...
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Whats Next for Publishing? Conference Report
Special report from Knowledge@Wharton: Turn the Page: What's Next for Publishing?. Excellent."Emerging technologies and strategies to reach new audiences are changing...
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Choice: Semantic Structure or Systemic Crises
Mark Montgomery of Kyields's blog post on the Gulf spill and the need for polymath perspective/philosophy for overcoming challenges.
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Laptops of the Future
Computerworld looks at some of the early prototypes of laptops from a number of vendors. Most of what we see are multiple screens that can be used independently...
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Voice Driven Web
From the CACM:" ... IBM Exploring voice-driven methods for the third-world webIBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones,...
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AI and Stock Picking
In Technology Review: Text analytics method that picks stocks better than the pros. Which pro? Any pros? I have seen such methodologies of various stripes. My questions...
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Second Life Downsizes
Second Life, the well known virtual world that attracted large investments in time and money from companies like IBM, Kraft and Circuit City, announced a 30% downsizing...
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Kraft, Procter and J&J Talk Marketing
Great article fronm CGT overviewing the Marketing Summit this week: " ... Kraft, P&G, J&J Unite to Share Sales & Marketing Insights June 9, 2010 - More than 200...
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New Media Actionable? A Good Idea.
Some useful ideas in really undertanding new media. Although I thought we always did this, I do have examples where it did not work out that way. ' ... While...
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Models of the Imagination
Some implications for advertising? Mindhacks on the power of fictional plots and stories.Psychologist Paul Bloom considers why imaginary characters and fictional...
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Unilever Strikes iAD Deal with Apple
Apple plans to start it's iAD on July 1:" ... a little over one week after iOS 4 becomes available to the general public. The iOS 4 update allows developers toBeyond...
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