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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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More Personal Mobility
Honda has a Segway-like, unicycle form personal mobility device called the U-3X in the works that is more remarkable looking than the Segway. No specific dates...
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Brand Retail as Theater
This reminds me of the work of Brenda Laurel, game developer and systems theorist, who wrote about computers and theater. The theater of the brand: Building entertainment...
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Computer Crime Legislation
Volokh posts on recently passed computer crime legislation. He quotes the entire act so that you can read it yourself. True it is legally cryptic, but you can get...
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Stephen Wolfram Talk
Stepehen Wolfram talks and does a Q&A on WolframAlpha and related topics they are working on. I need to get back to WolframAlpha to see how it is progressing. As...
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Meijers Opens Online Shopping Concept
An interesting idea in these tighter times, a convenience-based personal shopper concept by Meijer in the Chicago area. Shoppers pick up their own orders hand delivered...
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IBM Global CIO Study Promotes Analytics
Here is the place to download the study. Standardization, Security and analytics are emphasized. Requires a minimal registration.' .. A new global study of more...
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More Machine Vision
Machine vision has been around for a long time. For example systems in manufacturing lines that easily detect varying quality. Once you take such system in a human...
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Decline of Cursive
On the decline of cursive handwriting, in a recent article.I had discussions about this with a K-12 teacher relative, confirming the article. Little time is spent...
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Qwaq Becomes Teleplace
I recently brought up Qwaq, which we looked at for remote visual, avatar-enabled collaboration. They announced today that they have become Teleplace. Good nameTeleplace...
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IFTF on Future Knowledge Ecosystems
I worked with Institute for the Future for years, and blogged for them as well. A new interesting report from them: Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty...
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Atlas - Modeling Shopper Behavior : Paper
I recently posted about a shopper modeling system from TNS - Sorensen called Atlas, at that link you will find more information about the method and how it is evolving...
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Measuring Social ROI
Measuring social network ROI, fairly obvious, but with some useful examples.
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The Face of Data
Akin to Chernoff faces, but univariate. You can generate a smiley face in Excel that displays a range of emotions. Fun and perhaps useful if you can stand a smiley...
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Procter Store Back Idea
Ad Age details Procter's idea of 'store back', which they consider essential to improvement of sales competing with private label as we emerge from a recession....
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SAS JMP Tool Founder
Nice piece about SAS JMP tool developer John Sall, who I met years ago. Used JMP in the enterprise, but no longer have access. Was quite well done, it introduced...
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Human Level AI by When?
The World Future Society suggests we will have Human level AI by 2025. The Foresight Institute blog says it depends what the tasks are. Of course if you could...
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Product Innovation Site
Dr. Robert Cooper and Dr. Scott Edgett's Product Innovation site, best known for their Stage-Gate idea-to-launch method which we used in the enterprise.
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Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ... Hanlon's razor was commonly brought up in the enterprise, this is the first...
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Shopping Behavior Decision Trees
Videomining has applied for a patent that uses shopper behavior to develop consumer decision trees. We talked to Videomining some time ago, they have developed...
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