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Armpit Sniffing Sensors with AI
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Armpit Sniffing Sensors with AI

Because of the products we made, for many years we used human sensory labs to address anti-odorant efficacy.  So this digitizing of the sensory process is veryArm...

Human Presence Sensing for Smart Buildings
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Human Presence Sensing for Smart Buildings

In  RDMag.NSF Grant Awarded for Smart-building Sensor Research  by University of Hawai’iThe National Science Foundation has awarded University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa...

Being More Open Minded
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Being More Open Minded

Good piece, one of those fundamental things, and I think fairly rarely done in the enterprise.  Ultimately its a human resource issue.   Will the integration of...

Customer Experience Tools and Trends
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Customer Experience Tools and Trends

Good point about tool use.  As long as the few tools you use cover what you need.   Good to have a mix of generalists available that can help you choose,  and then...

Teaching Machines like Children
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Teaching Machines like Children

A long known approach and goal.   Allow machines to have very basic learning capabilities, let them experience the world,  and result in general intelligence. MIT...

Food Safety Detection by Consumers
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Food Safety Detection by Consumers

Clever use of RFID tags to detect and evaluate contaminantsPutting Food-Safety Detection in the Hands of Consumers MIT Media LabBy Rob Matheson MIT Lab NewsMassachusetts...

Kroger to Build Robotic Warehouse for Home Delivery
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Kroger to Build Robotic Warehouse for Home Delivery

Kroger continues to advance.   Now testing home delivery robotic warehouses.   Also direct robotic delivery testing in Arizona. The latter being a particularlyKroger...

ASK Toolkit for Visual Studio
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ASK Toolkit for Visual Studio

Nice to see continued development for skills.New methods for easier Alexa Skill development  (Technical) OverviewASK Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (Beta) is an...

Easily Model your Knowledge:  Jerry's Brain
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Easily Model your Knowledge: Jerry's Brain

Do you have a map of what all you have done, written, researched?   Jerry Michalski has one.  See:  https://www.jerrysbrain.com/  We looked at this as a possible...

Sliding Microbots at Microscale
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Sliding Microbots at Microscale

Things happen differently at small scales.Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motionMicrohydraulic actuators, thinner than...

Implantable ID Cards
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Implantable ID Cards

Not new, back again, surveys indicating we are very willing to have them done.Would you swap your keycard for a microchip implant? For many, the answer is yesTwenty...

Microsoft Adds AI to PowerBI and Azure for Business
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Microsoft Adds AI to PowerBI and Azure for Business

Interesting to see how, for the AI is often in the details.  Make the point of de emphasizing coding skills and thus automating some of the process.  'Containerized...

Microsoft is Selling Alexas
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Microsoft is Selling Alexas

Just started looking at updated Cortana and how it integrates with Echo. Still minimally.  Makes sense for Cortana to be the ecosystem wing to best support Office...

Use Weight Regularization to Reduce Overfitting of Deep Learning Models
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Use Weight Regularization to Reduce Overfitting of Deep Learning Models

Overfitting is a classic problem with all models.  It means you are finding the solution to a particular set of data, rather than a generalized problem.  This should...

McKinsey on Digital Strategy
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McKinsey on Digital Strategy

Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win  By Tanguy Catlin, Laura LaBerge, and Shannon Varney   in McKinseyYesterday’s tentative approaches won’t deliver...

Smart Cities and Blockchains
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Smart Cities and Blockchains

Never thought of this particular kind of approach.  Security of Why versus good database architectures?     Intriguing  thought. 10 Ways Blockchain Is Revolutionizing...

Chemical Reaction Predictions using AI
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Chemical Reaction Predictions using AI

Missed this, well worth a lookTalk by Teodoro Laino (Technical) "Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Reaction Predictions: IBM RXN for Chemistry”   from IBMExploring...

Mindmap for Managers about Data Science
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Mindmap for Managers about Data Science

Nicely done,   Though would have liked more connection from the map to details.  But worth a scan.Intro to Data Science for Managers [Mindmap]  Posted by Igor Bobriakov...

Predicting Crime
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Predicting Crime

Course we have long been able to predict likelihood,  its very close, but when does it flip over to making a decision, what are the broader implications of that...

Autonomous Cars will Upend Transportation
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Autonomous Cars will Upend Transportation

A podcast and transcript at the big question:  What will our personal transportation look like in a decade or less?Podcast:How Autonomous Vehicles Will Upend Transportation...
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