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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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3M Tracking and Inventory System
In an interesting development: -- 3M Launches Asset and Inventory Tracking System ... The solution includes 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags, handheld and pad readers...
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Berners-Lee Building Web of Data
Intriguing and a natural expansion on the notion of a semantic web, plus looking at the infrastructure required to deliver it. In ReadWriteWeb: Inventor of the'...
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Procter Opens e-Store Consumer Lab
I mentioned this some time ago, here is more. Via Richard L. James. Procter has run physical store 'sand boxes' of this type for a long time, it is long overdue...
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On Building Distinctive Brand Assets
Via Byron Sharp:Understanding, Identifying and Building Distinctive Brand AssetsThis post is part of a continuing series of guest posts. Jenni Romaniuk is an Associate...
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Simpler Strategy
In Fastcompany: How do you make business strategy easier to understand? Have seen this happen a number of times. Then strategy has to catch up with understanding...
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Is Everything a Game?
Jerry Michalski has an upcoming conference call talk on serious aspects of games, Monday. March 22, 2010, 10:30 PDT, 1:30 EDT, Dial-in: 1-270-400-1500, AccessMore...
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More Followers Does not Prove Influence
Good piece in the NYT: The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter Sign in to Recommend' ... A group of researchers have proven...
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Total Engagement Book
Although published late last year, this book was just brought to my attention: Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and...
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Augmented Reality Windshields
Early work at GM, but I do not expect it t see it available soon.-
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Very Rapid Book Scanning
Have recently taken a look at how to get printed data from books and manuals into a database. There are some new methods that look to make in volume operationsFrom...
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3D Universe
You can experience Hubble's 3D universe in 3D. More background and images here.-
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New Supply Chain Analytics Needed
In Sascom Magazine, at a recent conference of industry practitioners: ' ... Industry incumbents, academia and industry analysts all agreed that in the new-economy...
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SETI at 50 - No Evidence Yet
Searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Despite extensive crowd sourced efforts there has yet to be any evidence of ET. There are some useful comments (and...
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You Are Who You Know
Intriguing paper with privacy implications:You Are Who You Know:Inferring User Profiles in Online Social NetworksIn this paper, we ask the question: given attributes...
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Architecture of Apps
John Battelle makes make the case that the architecture of apps is broken. They do not each rise above the level of a single purpose and do not communicate. -
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Netezza Retail Analytic Appliance
I have had a number of conversations with Netezza in the past. They announced their Retail Analytics Appliance this January. I just got an offer for their white...
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Navigation in Rigorous Environments
Rockwell Collins handheld GPS receivers. ' ... For today's soldiers, handheld navigation is a necessity for situational awareness and surviving the rigorous environments...
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Internet Retailers and Location
More GIS based Business intelligence needed from the Knowledge@Wharton article outlined and linked to below. This also points to the prototyping and development...
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The Operations Room
Wim Vandevelde points me to Northwestern/Kellogg's blog on operations management: The Operations Room. ' ... is a forum for discussing current topics in operations...
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