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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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Comments
Comments here are moderated. I usually get to them very quickly, but depending on my schedule may take up to a day or two. Comments also need to be on relevant....
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Investment in Suppy Chain Management
E-Commerce Times article. Suggests based on Gartner and other reports that investment has flatlined in SCM. Somewhat difficult to believe, given increasing cost...
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Trouble in Social Networks
Brand damaging activities in social networks. An update in Computerworld with a number of useful examples.
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Touchless 3D Fingerprinting
Can we replace an old system with a much faster and reliable one? Good overview, with a number of advantages over the old fingerprinting method. Some start upsFlashscan...
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IFoundry
About IFoundry:' ... The Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education (iFoundry) is transforming engineering education for the 21st century. Specifically...
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Life Blogging Camera to be Produced
It was implied in a previous post that Microsoft did not intend to have the life blogging camera Sensecam produced. It was just reported that the camera will be...
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Customer Centricity at Kraft
In Consumer Goods Technology:Kraft, Harvard Business School Talk Customer CentricityAlarice Padilla October 5, 2009 - In today's challenging economy with unprecedented...
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Google Selling Online Books
Forthcoming: Google Editions. Now that Google has been given the open ability to scan books in the public domain, it is only natural that they are looking at ways...
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Experimenting With Mechanical Turk
A very good how-to article about the process of experimenting with Amazon's Mechanical Turk system. If you don't know about Mechanical Turk, it is one of the longest...
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A Remarkable Wind Story
Richard James sends this along: "...The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is...
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Tesco's Wireless Item Finder
Storefrontbacktalk reports that Tesco has a system to let shoppers find items in its 3700 plus stores using their IPhones. But they are not providing local WiFi...
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Responding to Social Media : Sidewiki
Google has recently added a toolbar capability called Sidewiki, which allows anyone to add comments, information or respond to any site. Previous attempts to do...
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TDWI: Business Intelligence as a Service
I see that TDWI has added a number of new white papers, case studies and other resources on Business Intelligence as a service, have not begun to tap their sources...
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Average Consumer is Gone
From Jeff Mills, VP of Client Marketing and Client Management at Thinkvine. If the average consumer does not exist, and is continually evolving, we need solutions...
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Linkedin APIs
I still recommend Linkedin first for people that are new to the use of social networking in business. Yet it is not open in the sense of being able to easily get...
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Data Mining Group
The Data Mining Group, based on recent experiences, this is a very good idea: ' ... The Data Mining Group (DMG) is an independent, vendor led consortium thatPredictive...
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Viewing Product Placement
The Times of London looks at Martin Lindstrom's view of how to do product placement right. American Idol used as an example for the application of neuroscience...
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Wristband Location Tags
I see that Ekahau, whose specialty has been WiFi based location methods, has come out with a wristband format tag that has meter and less accuracy. We looked at...
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Bar Code Scanning for the iPhone
I finally took a look at the Redlaser barcode scanner from Occipital for the IPhone, released earlier this year. It is a $1.99 application that downloads quickly...
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