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UN: Global Computer Simulation Tool
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UN: Global Computer Simulation Tool

Quite a considerable simulation is proposed.    Would be difficult to do, depending on the breadth and context involved.   Perhaps a realm where agent based modeling...

Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise AI
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Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise AI

This was needed to provide easier to use capabilities in the enterprise.Anaconda and IBM Watson Team to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of AI Open-Source Technologies...

Customer Thermal Imaging as Security
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Customer Thermal Imaging as Security

I was asked last week to explore the efficacy of using thermal imagery to determine if someone had increased body temperature and could that be used as indicative...

Very Small Robots
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Very Small Robots

Small task specific robotics are a long time interest.  With clear application for pharma delivery and other healthcare sensor and related work.Introducing theThis...

Multifunction E-Glasses Track the Brain, Eyes, and More
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Multifunction E-Glasses Track the Brain, Eyes, and More

Claim to considerable advances in sensor interfaces through a 'glasses style' interface.   Consder how combining brain and vision sensor data  would provide adaptive...

Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable Tech
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Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable Tech

Ultimately measurement of value.Verifying, Validating the Clinical Usefulness of Wearable TechnologyBy Duke University Pratt School of EngineeringMay 28, 2020Duke...

Virtual Care Services
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Virtual Care Services

Experienced this recently, was nicely done.   Though I would require at least some face to face and visual analysis as part of the care.   Might this be done by...

Virus UnCertainty
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Virus UnCertainty

McKinsey piece on restart, watching local businesses closely.Crushing coronavirus uncertainty: The big ‘unlock’ for our economiesTo safeguard lives and livelihoods...

Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills
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Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills

Nice idea, have often found myself groping for some skill name.  Should have been done sooner.Amazon Streamlines Building Smart Home Alexa Skills by Eric Hal Schwartz...

Lowe's Goes Virtual for Pro Home Improvement
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Lowe's Goes Virtual for Pro Home Improvement

Most intrigued about how the knowledge is being stored, delivered,utilized.      There are different levels of expertise embedded in 'Pro', so will this context...

AR and Improved Online Shopping
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AR and Improved Online Shopping

We spent some time examining this proposition, but did not find that AR provided significant results in engagement and sales, except in very narrow domains. Here...

CVS Health Testing Nuro Delivery
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CVS Health Testing Nuro Delivery

This particular Nuro delivery systems is being tested by a number of companies.  See a number of images at the tag.CVS Health Tests Self-Driving Vehicle Prescription...

Systems of Insight, Analytics in Context
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Systems of Insight, Analytics in Context

Precisely what I have been suggesting for some time. The results of analytics need to be plugged into business need.    As the Computerworld Article states it:"...

Simulating the Market
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Simulating the Market

Quite a claim, often mentioned in early AI 'tests'?  Can it work?   Is simulation sufficiently complex proxy for the market?AI stock trading experiment beats market...

Alexa now has a Everywhere Intercom Feature
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Alexa now has a Everywhere Intercom Feature

Been a long-time user of Alexa as an intercom, but you had to select a destination.   Now this new capability is nice, specially useful if you have a large multi...

Leveraging Unlabeled Data
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Leveraging Unlabeled Data

The first step in using data is to make sure we know what the data is.   Surprisingly this can often be an issue.   Seen it a number of times in the real world....

Research on Human - AI Teaming
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Research on Human - AI Teaming

Good piece on the topic.    Not too different from teaming with other methods, like analytics   But here there may be higher expectations and hints of expectedTeaming...

Astronomy Methods for Business Analytics?
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Astronomy Methods for Business Analytics?

Brought to attention by some of my astro colleagues, the effort is considerable.  Could businesses also construct such a 'survey' of how they operate?   Which could...

State of China AI
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State of China AI

ACM OPINIONThe Art of AIBy Project SyndicateKai-Fu Lee.Sinovation CEO and chairman Kai-Fu Lee says the best role for artificial intelligence in the future is to...

On Technology Adoption
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On Technology Adoption

On tech adoption, measurement and useful stage models of prediction diffusion.Technology AdoptionBy Peter J. Denning, Ted G. LewisCommunications of the ACM, June...
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