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Finnair Approach to Data as an Asset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finnair Approach to Data as an Asset

Part of a recent scan of how companies are looking at data as an assetFinnair Unlocks the Business Value of Data with Data Catalogby Ron Powell in b-eye Network...

AI Framework for Driverless Cars
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Framework for Driverless Cars

Late to this, but a question about driver-less had someone send this to me.    Useful thoughts about the how and what kind of data is being gathered.Framework for...

ACM and Their Learning Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

ACM and Their Learning Center

It has been a while since I have promotionally mentioned the ACM:Association for Computing MachineryAdvancing Computing as a Science & Profession.    (and as avid...

Update on North's Focals Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Update on North's Focals Smart Glasses

More updates on North's Focals Smart Glasses.  Now more closely connected to typical smart phone OS.  At this only to the Android.   Will this mean that we will...

Simulating Softness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating Softness

We were in a consumer space that had as one of it measures softness.   So the measurement and creation of softness was key.How to simulate softness    by University...

Waterloo Develops Faster 5G for IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Waterloo Develops Faster 5G for IOT

Implications of 5G for broader more effective IOT?Waterloo Researchers Develop 200X Faster, Low-Cost Network for 5G Connectivity International Business TimesSoorya...

Amazon Putting Alexa in the Car Seriously Now
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Putting Alexa in the Car Seriously Now

Just put one in my own car and am starting to understand how it interacts with the smart home experience.   Its started to roll more broadly now as I hear colleagues...

Influencers and Beauty Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Influencers and Beauty Marketing

Beauty Marketing taken over by influencersLipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing   by Dina Gerdeman in HBS Influencer marketing has quickly...

Robot Morning For Aerospace Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Morning For Aerospace Supply Chain

Just brought to my attention:Robot MorningBuilding the automated aerospace supply chainRobot Morning creates software that automates and analyzes the data exchanged...

Wal-Mart, Facebook  and Digital Tokens for Inclusion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart, Facebook and Digital Tokens for Inclusion

Fascinating piece on the notion of 'Financial Inclusion' and its use by retailers of both products and of marketing data,  like Wal-Mart and Facebook.    Meaning...

Collecting Soil Samples
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collecting Soil Samples

More autonomous, continuous and precise means of gathering data to make decisions.Autonomous robots collect precise soil samples, help farmers improve yields, reduce...

Webinar: Mixed Integer Programming plus Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Webinar: Mixed Integer Programming plus Machine Learning

Highly recommended!   We used Mixed Integer Programming optimization methods for many years in the enterprise.  Used it every day to solve tough problems.  It was...

Ring/Amazon Reveals How its working with Police in the US
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ring/Amazon Reveals How its working with Police in the US

Been a member since the network has been established, great idea. Working Together for Safer Neighborhoods: Introducing the Neighbors Active Law Enforcement Map...

More Very Small Healthcare Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Very Small Healthcare Robotics

More MIT robotics advances, with very clear potential healthcare applications.Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vesselsMagnetically controlled...

Computational Sustainability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computational Sustainability

A new subfield of using computer based modeling and methods.Video introduction:   https://vimeo.com/351182289Carla Gomes of Cornell, discusses "Computational Sustainability"...

Reality of Data Privacy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reality of Data Privacy

Long known that this is a difficult problem.  Here a considerable piece on the subject:Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on ItAug 23, 2019 North America in Knowledge...

Software Architecture to Watch
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Software Architecture to Watch

Notable piece by O'Reilly on expanding and emergent software architecture methods:The topics to watch in software architectureMicroservices, serverless, AI, ML,...

Linkedin Recruiting Spies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Recruiting Spies

As might be expected, as a vast public collection of detailed HR data, with the ability to follow through with extended communication, it could be used to recruit...

Machine Learning Astonishes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Astonishes

Free at the link, a short non-technical article in the latest Communications of the ACM, which describes how machine learning is taking over computing.  And how...

Body Sensors Use Gathered Power
From The Eponymous Pickle

Body Sensors Use Gathered Power

Another example of the use of body gathered power.Sticker sensor monitors your body using wireless powerIt wouldn't interfere with your behavior.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas...
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