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Tracking Diamond Provenance with TrustChain
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Tracking Diamond Provenance with TrustChain

Readily understandable proposition in Fortune.IBM Blockchain Is Tracking Diamond Rings Across the Globe By Jeff  John Roberts in Fortune Couples who pick out an...

CEOs and Machine Learning
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CEOs and Machine Learning

Good piece, wordy but useful description. A set of charts or infograpics might be better.How CEOs Can Decode The Alphabet Soup Of Machine Learning  By Mike Salvino...

Supply Chain Enterprise Blockchain
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Supply Chain Enterprise Blockchain

Nicely done, well-explained, non-technical.Supply ChainEnterprise-ready blockchain brings transparency to supply chainsWritten by: Todd ScottCategorized: Blockchain...

Self Folding Origami
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Self Folding Origami

Consider the materials implications.CMU Researchers Create Self-Folding Origami, Try for Pasta That Shapes as it Cooks Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewBY Aaron Aupperlee...

Google Assistant Providing How-tos
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Google Assistant Providing How-tos

Visual how-to videos, to be delivered by a number of small screen devices.   Similar and competing with the Amazon Show.  Have been testing the Show, Google Home...

New Research
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New Research

Pointed out to me from HWKWorking KnowledgeBusiness Research for Business LeadersOf special interest among new research papers, case studies, articles, and books...

Maersk Shipping on Blockchain
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Maersk Shipping on Blockchain

More on this example, previously reported:Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry   By BloombergMaersk, APL, Hyundai race to build paperlessAdoption...

Routines for Process
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Routines for Process

Have now created a few.  The basic idea is good. You don't invoke one thing, but give an assistant a stream of things to do, but only their things.    So a  bunch...

Alexa to Sport a Bigger, more Conversational Brain
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Alexa to Sport a Bigger, more Conversational Brain

A good direction, needs to be continued.   Some very interesting details in the blog post.Alexa’s bigger ‘brain’ is getting new skills, natural conversation, and...

Where IFTTT is Going
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Where IFTTT is Going

Looking for a business model, and things to attract businesses.   I suggest that they think of how they can introduce business rules and machine learning to add...

Individualization vs Personalization
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Individualization vs Personalization

Will Gen Zers push personalization toward individualization?     by Tom Ryan in RetailwireAccording to a study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, Gen Zers...

Giant Touchpads
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Giant Touchpads

Talked to office furniture manufactures about some of these methods.A coat of conductive paint can transform regular walls into giant touchpads   In Digital Trends...

Freeing Your Metadata
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Freeing Your Metadata

Late reported to me, but of interest.  An area I worked on in the enterprise.  Needs more application of analytical methods.26 April 2018 noon US Eastern for 60...

Microsoft Tests Productivity Bot
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Microsoft Tests Productivity Bot

Another example of augmenting work, the paper mentionedMicrosoft looks to bots to make employees more productiveMicrosoft is continuing its quest to try to make...

AI for Material Science
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AI for Material Science

More about augmenting experimentation.  In a predictively generate plus test kind of approach. How AI is helping us discover materials faster than everWe can predict...

Functional Programming
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Functional Programming

Had not heard of this in a long time.  We examined the possibilities.  But is it enough?  Isn't it time to take a greater leap ahead to real intelligence-task level...

Speech Emotion Recognition
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Speech Emotion Recognition

Björn Schuller discusses "Speech Emotion Recognition: Two Decades in a Nutshell, Benchmarks, and Ongoing Trends," a Review Article in the May 2018 CACM.  https:...

Control Drones with a FlyJacket
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Control Drones with a FlyJacket

In IEEE Spectrum.  With Images and video.  Impressive, integration with virtual reality?FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your BodyEPFL's FlyJacket exosuit...

Robots Do their own Experiments
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Robots Do their own Experiments

There are robots as we typically interpret that term.  There is also robotic process automation (RPA).  Which does not have to look anything like a 'robot'.   And...

Talk on Use of Machine Learning in Retail
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Talk on Use of Machine Learning in Retail

Informative piece.[WEBINAR ON-DEMAND] Machine Learning: The Differentiator Retailers Have Been SeekingIt’s virtually impossible for retailers of any size to compete...
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