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Brick and Mortar Making a Comeback
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brick and Mortar Making a Comeback

I have my doubts,  but there will always be specialty examples, new kinds of channels.Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback in HBS Working KnowledgeLeft...

Cardboard VR is Open Sourced
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cardboard VR is Open Sourced

Played with Cardboard VR early on.  Surprised a bit that Google has backed off the idea, an indication that they don't believe the process is currently viable? ...

Why Tokens Matter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Tokens Matter

Whats a token?  Why should we use it as a means of payment.  How does it change how we do business?Is it inevitable we will tokenize?     Dr Rijmenam writes about...

Tableau Conference Nov 13-15
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau Conference Nov 13-15

Particularly interested in seeing how they are integrating with Salesforce, providing new AI methods,  New kinds of data handling, Better visualization and prescriptive...

Touchless plus Tactile Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Touchless plus Tactile Interaction

Quite unusual combination, can it greatly improve interaction in new ways?Intuitive in the Virtual RealityHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-RossendorfBy Simon Schmitt,Researchers...

Applause for Automated AI Testing and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Applause for Automated AI Testing and More

Was just pointed to Applause, a means to  expert-crowdsource and manage complex projects.    We had similar capabilities in the enterprise.  Interesting that these...

Supply Chain: IBM adds Assistant Based Methods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Chain: IBM adds Assistant Based Methods

Combining Assistant oriented methods and algorithmic prescriptive solutions makes much more sense.   One way to combine human and autonomous solutions effectively...

Da Vinci's Robot Lions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Da Vinci's Robot Lions

Have a long time interest in Leonardo Da Vinci, and came upon some of his work in 'Robotics'.  He was a person well ahead of his time with the concept, but sadly...

Robots in the Boardroom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots in the Boardroom

A place we experimented with, see a number of tags below for more.Research by HBS, with a number of related topics, some examples:Robots in the Boardroom    by ...

US Patent Office to Leverage AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

US Patent Office to Leverage AI

US Patent office to use AI MethodsPatent Office Seeks Help From AI   By The Wall Street JournalThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is expanding its use of artificial...

Bridging the AI Gaps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bridging the AI Gaps

There are AI gaps, huge gaps.  Just like my very modern, effective, correct and powerful smartphone.  With special purpose Apps, loaded up and many more available...

Hitching a Ride
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hitching a Ride

An interesting idea.Delivery Drones Could Land on Public Transport to Extend Their RangeNew ScientistEdd GentOctober 31, 2019Researchers at Stanford University...

Building a Better Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building a Better Blockchain

Thoughtful piece.These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain in WiredBy Gregory Barber Blockchain tech enables systems where no one is in charge,...

Listening for Indicators of Failure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Listening for Indicators of Failure

Not an uncommon thing that is done by human engineers responsible for maintenance.  Now proposed to be more autonomous.'Listening' to Engine Blades to Stop Failures...

Whats a 5G World Look Like
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats a 5G World Look Like

Useful examples of where the new technology will be relevant:A First Look at What a 5G-Enabled World Looks Like, Courtesy of Samsung and IBM Written by: Steve Canepa...

Navigating via
From The Eponymous Pickle

Navigating via

More work on Robot navigation.   But where do the clues come from?  We already navigate from things like addresses.  But to get there precisely may need more than...

Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

From what we know how the brain works to artificial neural nets (ANN), which we know are very simplistic neural models, then back to the actual operation of the...

Cognitive Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Automation

Augmentation is the near term approach here, but I expect augmentation to become more automated over time.    Checking, validation and  Numbers presented here are...

AI Heading off a Cliff?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Heading off a Cliff?

Thoughts from a well known AI and Computing expert.Warning! AI Is Heading for a Cliff   By California Magazine via CACMAsked if the race to achieve superhuman artificial...

Considering Unforseen Circumstances
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Unforseen Circumstances

Are always an issue, and not considered carefully enough.  Surely should be talked about in an analytical effort.  Nice space by Peter Bruce that is worth following...
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