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Digital Transformation
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Digital Transformation

And I had just posted about Predictive maintenance.   Here elevator maker Thyssenkrupp AG talks about the technology and how it links to their own experience in...

Nissan to invite Google onto Car Dashboards
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Nissan to invite Google onto Car Dashboards

A step forward on automotive driver/occupant interaction.   The rolling channel.  Closer than this, I think.   How will driverless vehicles effect/change this?Nissan...

Can AI Fix Disaster Relief?
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Can AI Fix Disaster Relief?

Visuals are interesting here in the linked article below.  Another example of where there needs to be strong, real-time collaboration with human interactions.Disaster...

Which Data Science Project?
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Which Data Science Project?

We  dealt with exactly this, with AI projects and with and any new tech projects.    Below article very nicely put piece worth reading.    Even more straight forwardly...

Digital Health Ecosystems in Japan
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Digital Health Ecosystems in Japan

We spent sometime trying to understand Japan's needs, and noted their particular emphasis on eldercare solutions.  Impressive work in robotic solutions:Building...

Smart Connected Consumer Products
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Smart Connected Consumer Products

A topic we often worked on in in the innovation center, excellent infographic overview when connected to the smart city.  Smart at all sorts of levels.  (full clickable...

Reducing Customer Friction
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Reducing Customer Friction

Nicely put.   Would add, personalized for this particular customer ....  Read the whole thingHow to Reduce Friction    By Shep Hyken - As most of you (hopefully...

Benford's Law and Data Science
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Benford's Law and Data Science

Used it from the very beginning in enterprise data science.  well worth understanding,  especially for anomaly cases in finance or research fraud.   Even in finance...

Bob Herbold on Tech Talent
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Bob Herbold on Tech Talent

My former boss makes the case about retaining tech talent.  Link to interviewFormer Microsoft COO Concerned About US Universities vs. China: ‘The Big Risk for Tech...

Shared Machine Learning Mistakes
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Shared Machine Learning Mistakes

You can always learn from mistakes.   Especially in the case of technologies where the methods are still evolving.   And what is the inherent risk involved in wrong...

Ford Working on Robot Delivery
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Ford Working on Robot Delivery

More self driving delivery.   Ford it seems is a new player.  The customer process of retrieving goods from a driverless vehicle should be interesting.  But likely...

New Technology Enabling Alibaba to Sell $30.8 Billion
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New Technology Enabling Alibaba to Sell $30.8 Billion

Impressive combination of tech being used to provide sales volume.   AI, Blockchain, Cloud,  Cooling, Supply Chain, Energy consumption  ...  So leading edge tech...

Here Come the New Neural Stick
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Here Come the New Neural Stick

This was brought up before, but the idea seems to have advanced.    A trained 'stick' that contains the AI needed for Edge applications.   Faster now it implies...

Report on Watson Health
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Report on Watson Health

Did IBM overhype Watson Health's AI promise?IBM's Watson Health division has been under fire for not delivering on its promise to use AI to enable smarter, more...

Microsoft Buys XOXCO for Chatbot Design
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Microsoft Buys XOXCO for Chatbot Design

Last year saw a live demo of Microsoft quickly building a chatbot from the framework of a FAQ data base in Azure.  Was impressive.  But of course doing this well...

Overview of Google Home Assistant Ecosystem
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Overview of Google Home Assistant Ecosystem

Good overview, largely non technical.   Good point about motivation of the typical consumer.  But it may ultimately lead to expectations that this is now a common...

Statistics for Machine Learning Models
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Statistics for Machine Learning Models

Nicely done look at the problem, by the always  useful Jason Brownlee.   Follow his writing subscribe to his tutorials. Statistics for Evaluating Machine Learning...

Wal-Mart's In-store AI Lab
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Wal-Mart's In-store AI Lab

Useful to do this in a real operating store.   Many of details of  technology and analytics delivery are best seen in the messy operating world of retail.  We tried...

Coaching Networks: Humanity's Fighting Chance
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Coaching Networks: Humanity's Fighting Chance

The recent look at the concept of the Nudge Theory and Nudge Engines led me to a reference about 'Coaching Networks'.  Term was new to me.   Can it be that AI itself...

Watson and VMWare
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Watson and VMWare

Some really technical points being made about the ease of constructing and maintaining virtual architectures. How much does this contribute to architectures for...
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