acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Blogroll


bg-corner

Limiting the Right to be Forgotten
From The Eponymous Pickle

Limiting the Right to be Forgotten

Been intrigued by the EU  'right to be forgotten'  laws a means to say you can have information about you scrubbed from the web.    Increasing your privacy at least...

Interpreting and Securely Using Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interpreting and Securely Using Machine Learning

 Good piece here, which discusses the nature of Trust, Causality, Transferability, Informativeness,....Yes to that, but ultimately is how you can link, and useI...

Exoskeleton Enhancement Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exoskeleton Enhancement Robotics

Some useful solutions, with images at the link:GEMS (Gait Enhancing and Motivating System)  in CNetHelping you walk " .... While the Samsung Bot Air looks likeThe...

Feedback and Blacker Boxes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feedback and Blacker Boxes

Thoughts on the topic of complexity and understanding the operational specifics of what we have done.The Blacker the Box  By Michael KaminskyThere has been a lot...

About Pypestream
From The Eponymous Pickle

About Pypestream

Took another look, follows some of my own ideas about linking process models to solution methods, like RPA and Deep Learning ....About Pypestream:Pypestream, the...

Creating Books from Wikipedia with Wiki-Book Bot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating Books from Wikipedia with Wiki-Book Bot

We tested a similar approach in-house, meant to combine public and internal knowledge.   There were of course gripes about both the reliability, completeness of...

Echo Auto Ships to High Demand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Echo Auto Ships to High Demand

Apparently there is considerable interest and even demand to get the Echo Auto into cars.   Even though later model cars today can already be fitted with Alexa,...

Long Term Vision for European Automotive Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Long Term Vision for European Automotive Industry

In McKinsey.  Not too much unexpected.  Useful view.A long-term vision for the European automotive industryTechnological disruption is redefining mobility globally...

Telepresence for the Home with Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Telepresence for the Home with Assistant

We examined a number of telepresence solutions for office environments,  trying to allow people to casually inhabit new environments,  office or business, or industrial...

Fingernail Sensor to Monitor Disease Progression
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fingernail Sensor to Monitor Disease Progression

New kinds of sensors, measurement and then prediction.IBM Research Develops Fingernail Sensor to Monitor Disease Progression   in TechCrunch  By Frederic Lardinois...

Amazon Go Could be $4 Billion Physical Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Go Could be $4 Billion Physical Retail

A push towards advanced checkout tech.Report: Amazon Go could become $4 billion businessAnalyst says cashierless retail concept “could be a game changer”By Russell...

P&G Launching 6 Connected Products At CES
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Launching 6 Connected Products At CES

Good to see interesting moves here.P&G Launching 6 Connected Products At CES by Chuck Martin  AI & IOT DAILYProcter and Gamble is launching six new connected products...

Intent, Devices and Marketing Funnels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intent, Devices and Marketing Funnels

In Think with Google. Nothing is linear anymore.  Our devices can change our intent, based on changing context, anytime.    So how do we use this?Intent and Marketing...

Amazon and Telenav
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon and Telenav

More new on how Amazon plans to place their systems n cars and connect retail channels. Broadening the idea of an assistant.Amazon is getting more serious about...

Offices Getting Smarter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Offices Getting Smarter

We looked at this, not enough mentioned here about how direct assistance can be inserted.Offices Grow 'Brains' as Companies Seek to Attract Smarter Workers Reuters...

Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Stores

Making Shelves, store and consumer fulfillment smarter.Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Grocery Store. Amazon, Take NoteThe supermarket chain and technologyBy...

Amoeba Solves the TSP
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amoeba Solves the TSP

A classic, iconic problem, often mentioned in analytics texts.   Often use as a classic optimization problem that gets very hard, very fast for digital computers...

Downloading the Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Downloading the Wikipedia

Since I am always connected, and have been technical since you had to solder things together,  I was unaware you could do this.   The further question is why would...

Neutrogena scans Faces,  Builds Masks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neutrogena scans Faces, Builds Masks

Clever idea,  using smartphone as a sensor, other applications?Neutrogena app 3D scans your face to create perfect-fit sheet masksBecause there's no one-size-fits...

Use of Weather App Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Use of Weather App Data

On the alleged gathering of data and how it is used.  Leads to further consideration about how the data is used now and in the future.   Future intent of data use...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account