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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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Quantum Transmission from ETH
This, from ETH, seems quite the breakthrough. What will this ultimately mean for computing, encryption, combinatorial computation? Beam me up?Quantum Transfer...
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Watson Knowledge Catalog
During our earliest look at Watson, we asked, how do we get our knowledge into the system? Update it? Set up maintenance? Obvious question. Too hard, expensive...
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Surveillance Cameras Talking to Smartphones
Interesting, but perhaps spooky application. Your smart city talking to you individually. Advertising next?System Allows Surveillance Cameras to 'Talk' to the...
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RFID Tags as Sensors
MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors MIT NewsBy Jennifer ChuResearchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Lab have developed...
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On Company Towns
Been a follower of the topic. Starting with towns built around railroads and their workers. The technology of past days.Silicon Valley’s company towns are doomed...
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Detemining the Cause of War
In my early days at the Pentagon, working for the Joint Chiefs, we built and ran conflict simulations. But we were less interested in causes than we were in outcomes...
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Rise of the Financial Robo Advisor
Much interested in the dynamics of how systems will dynamically and perceptively give advice. In this blog have called them 'Assistants'. How will they disrupt...
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Top 20 Python Data Science Libraries from DSC
Extensive sets with good descriptions. Top 20 Python libraries for data science in 2018Posted by Igor Bobriakov Python continues to take leading positions in solving...
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More on the Autonomous Store
More complete piece by Jon Stine on Amazon Go, and the more general topic of autonomous stores. In US and China. In the Intel IT Peer NetworkLots of comment about...
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Signals of Disruption
Have been involved in several meetings to determine and evaluate such signals. See below a bare outline from MIT/Sloan. May sound simplistic but there is muchThree...
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Cisco Guide to Smart Manufacturing
Downloadable at the link:ManufacturingHow to Evolve your Manufacturing Environment to an Ultimate StateBy Eric Ehlers - Cisco Live just wrapped this week, and we...
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Levels of Customer Engagement with Retail IOT
I see that Intel Director Jon Stine, who we worked with at innovation centers, comments on Amazon Go and IoT in retail.IoT Is Building Higher Levels Of Customer...
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Imagine a World Based on a Picture
Applications? Imagining this. Maybe a new kind of creativity?DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single pictureArtificial intelligence can now putGiven...
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Internet Intelligence Map Shows Live Attacks
Interesting visual, to what degree can it be used to plan for and address possible attacks?Oracle’s Internet Intelligence Map presents a real-time view of online...
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MIT on EOS Blockchain
MIT Technology Review now has an excellent newsletter that touches on many emergent technology topics, most recently the topic was a blockchain called EOS , more...
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Amazon Ships DeepLens
This intrigues me. A means to get data for prototype vision-centric machine learning. A way to generate test data that will be needed. The article includesAmazon...
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Who Builds Big Recommendation Engines
Breadth and particular participants were surprising. How these operate essentially acts as the 'algorithm' for suggestion based upon data. How well they work...
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Microsoft Trying Cashierless
Another company trying the space, Will it be a common thing very soon? I recall seeing an example at Microsoft's retail innovation space, but did not know they...
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Complexity of Taste Expertise
Learned the complexity of this in the favor space for roasted coffee. Some people just cannot do it. How do you make machines do it?Learning to Become a Taste...
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