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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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Smart Contracts as BlockChains Killer App?
Still quit a bit to achieve to make smart contracts clear and understandable. Smart contracts can be embodied in any code, but code can be prone to error depending...
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Open Source Code to Extract Sensor Insights
Ultimately all analytics and AI is about extracting insights from sensors and productively re-using them. So any way to speed up the prototyping of that process...
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Podcast: Business, Disruption and Technology
Harvard professor Thales Teixeira explains why customer behavior, not technology, ultimately drives disruption.The emergence of a new technology is often citedHis...
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Digital Procurement
A current area I am looking at closely. An area to also make things precise, smart, and predicatively alert. Strategic considerations also make much sense,Digital...
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McKinsey: Global Energy Perspectives
A perspective of energy use, production.From McKinseyGlobal Energy Perspective 2019Energy systems around the world are going through rapid transitions that affect...
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Templates for Alexa in Business
Finally a movement forward here. To date have not seen much useful in this space.Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps ...
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Handle Robot for Warehouses
Looking for an autonomous and adaptable robot for warehouse environments. Some quite impressive examples have now come from Boston Dynamics.Boston Dynamics' new...
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Digital Experience in Retail
Clearly important, but how to effectively use it is the challenge.Digital Experience Matters: Kroger VP In Progressive Grocer By Kat Martin Kroger VP Digital Experience...
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The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
A topic that has long interested me. How biased is the Wikipedia?Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized CrowdsA lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles.ByIn...
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Medical Delivery Drones
Probably most useful for specific and perhaps temporary contexts. But shows how this can be useful.Operator prepares drone to carry medical specimens Hospital Using...
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Walmart Battles Amazon with Jetblack
Mentioned previously here, back to product selection curation. Would be a good place to model the process of consumer interaction with needs. The journey involved...
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Example of Blockchain Use with SAP
An example of secure tracking using Blockchains.Blockchain Is Better Than a Database for Tracking Tuna In Computerworld By Lucas MearianBumble Bee Foods has...
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Augmented Reality Adoption in Retail
I think this still has some way to go, especially with regard to getting consumers comfortable with the idea of using AR publicly. That is why some wearable like...
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AI Neural Pioneers get Highest Tech Award
Appreciate this because we worked with the same tech in the 90s. Laboriously training neural nets to classify brand reactions. Based on that, we thought that...
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McDonald's Acquires Dynamic Yield for Decision Logic
Companies leveraging advanced analytic methods for their data by acquisition. Have recently stood in front of McDonald's store kiosk and after looking for theMcDonald's...
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The Well Connected European Consumer
How does the European consumer differ from other regions in its use of information and communications technology. Infrastructure. Statistics.Europe's Well-Connected...
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Research on Edge Computing
Been following the idea and progress of preforming analytics and AI at the 'edge', or physically close to where it will be used. Here an abstract for an article...
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Analytics for Management
Good piece in the ACM, full text linked to below. And further it is not only about classical analytics but also about the emergence of cognitive aspects of AI in...
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Clippy and Teams
Been using MS Teams, like it. But with such systems the question ultimately arises, should we have a system that tracks our activity and offers to help, assists...
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