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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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Foursquare and Newspapers
In Gigaom: Will the Foursquare location and reward idea help newspapers? ' ... The Journal announced today that readers can get news and reviews about local spots...
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Martin Gardner Dies
Its rare that I do an obituary here, but a particularly inspirational figure to me, Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, has died at the age of 95. His NYT obituary...
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Location Based Services Revenue
Good piece in E-Commerce Times on charting a revenue stream for location based services. A place I have been examining.
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Print Ad Database
A new research database that looks at the relationship of what was done in print and what it achieved based on specific variables. Though this is old tech, print...
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Supermarket Space Allocation
In Progressive Grocer: An old problem that we started to look at in terms of optimization starting in the 70s. In recent years increased computing power and better...
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Social Media for Product Launch
The use of social media for new initiatives. Brand Week has a list of a number of recent examples. To this I say, why not do this in addition to other methods?...
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Collective Intelligence by Retailers
Retailers sharing their collective intelligence. ' ... Gartner analysts Mick MacComascaigh and Whit Andrews recently released a study, "Leading Websites Will Use...
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Beautiful BI on the IPad
An interesting post on 'beautiful mobile BI'. Next Doug Lautzenheiser on using RoamBI and other IPad BI methods. I have also experimented with the RoamBI App...
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Computers Making Better Drugs
From the CACM, good overview on computer drug design. Another example of intelligence via directed simulation. The power of abduction.
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Sarcasm Recognition
A paper on a method of sarcasm recognition. I use emoticons sometimes in personal communications to make it clear I am being humorous, or at least not completely...
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Seeding a Startup Culture
What should a startup culture look like? Have been involved with a number now, both independent and within a much larger organization. They look similar, but are...
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Psychologists View of User Experience
In UX Magazine, A simple short useful article on the topic of design for user experience. From the psychologists viewpoint. These are the kinds of things that seem...
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Wal-Mart Supports Smart Card Payments
This could result in considerable changes in US retail payment systems. The commonly used 'signature-based' methods were cited as a waste of time. Wal-Mart to...
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On Biosimilars
Bain writes on Biosimilars, a term I have not heard for a while, though it came up in research work.Biosimilars: A marathon, not a sprint for pharmaby Bain partners...
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New Open Innovation Strategy at Kraft
In Consumergoods Technology: New open innovation strategy at Kraft.
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Procter Online Store Open to Public
After months of testing P&G's online store is now open to the public. ' ... Procter & Gamble Co. said Wednesday the "eStore" is up and running for the generalYou...
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Data Diving with Mathematica
Short article from the Wolfram blog about doing data analysis and visualization using Mathematica. The wealth of capabilities in Mathematica are considerable,...
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Wal-Mart Virtual Mirror
In StoreFrontBackTalk: Evan Schuman on Wal-Mart's virtual makeover effort. We experimented with this concept in-store and in-home for a dozen years, in a number...
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