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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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Next Generation Cave
I have seen a number of uses of the CAVE environment, at universities, retail and manufacturing laboratories. And although each has been a very impressive attempt...
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Upcoming Talk on Mashed-up Visualization
On mash-ups for visualization, plan to attendL The Last Mile: Data Visualization in a Mashed-Up World (May 20, at 3PM ET, then archived) Requires minimal registration...
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Comment from Google on Wifi Privacy
Comments from Google on the recent Wifi privacy problems in Europe. Troubling that they seem to be less than completely serious on this topic. Just because no one...
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The Security of Cars as App Platforms
There has been software in cars for a long time, but now that Ford has opened an App store they start looking like a platform for software, networked into the grid...
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Location Apps and Capabilities Competing
AdAge review of location Apps and new competitive capabilities in Facebook. I am not sure I want to have another capability rolled into FB. At least in systems"...
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KYield Diabetes Use Case Scenario
Mark Montgomery of KYield writes: " .. I am pleased to share with you our health care use case, which is an important cornerstone of our series 'Semantic Scenarios...
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TV Apps
In AdAge: The growth of mobile applications that mirror TV productions. Cross platform delivery and advertising. .
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Laser is 50 Years Old
The functional laser is 50 years old in 2010. It was predicted as early as 1917 in a paper by Einstein. A very remarkable achievement with many applications. ...
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Practicing the Google Rule
Michael Schrage asks why many people do not use the information easily available to them. Obvious, but also worth repeating. We were always taught that before...
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Google and the Newspaper Industry
In the Atlantic: Quite interesting detailed article: How to Save the News, by James Fallows: " ... Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business. Few...
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Engaging to Compete
New from the Seriosity blog: Engaging to Compete. Also a link there to a full chapter of the book. I talk about the book at greater length here. Its about using...
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How Iconoclasts Think
A good podcast: Featured Guest: Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals...
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Neural Data and fMRI Scans Confirmed
In Roger Dooley's Neuromarketing Blog: ' ... Now, new research published in Nature has shown that there is indeed a correlation between neuronal activity and what...
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Stengthening Brand America
Edward Burghard, Retired Harley Procter Marketer, Procter & Gamble, has made me aware of the Strengthening Brand America Project. It is focused on catalyzing...
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Soft Reliability
The concept of soft reliability came up again in a recent conversation. Had not brought it up here for more that a year. Good overview site here. If anyone has...
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Faceted Search in Linkedin
I have always thought that Linkedin had a messy user interface. It especially confuses new users, who I heard from in the enterprise. Just read of some changesMore...
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Self Healing Software
From CACM on the idea of self-healing software. Mention of some IBM research in this area. Several years ago I went to a meeting on complexity modeling at IBM...
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What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
On the list, but not on the stack yet. Nicholas Carr's new book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . Look forward to reading it.
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Android Pushes Ahead
I just bought two Android phones for the family. I am still using an IPhone. I have become interested in a comparison of the two options. This post has some...
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