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Impact of Innovation from Surveyed Execs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Impact of Innovation from Surveyed Execs

From former correspondent Paul Gillin, always a good writer.  Not sure there is a sharp divide though,  it's more the how and when this will happen.  And how much...

Marketing and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing and AI

Non Technical look at what is happening in marketing.   Lots of places for augmentation in marketing activities.  All this is not new, were doing it in the very...

Intel Builds Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Builds Smart Glasses

Still waiting for workable examples.  Ultimately how AR will be delivered  A little surprise to see Intel in this space.  We looked at a number of applicationsIntel...

Innovation Vision of the Cognitive Era
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Vision of the Cognitive Era

This recorded session presents a complete innovative vision to the cognitive era ...By Hesham Soultan,  Senior IT Architect at IBMFurther discussion at the Linkedin...

Privacy and Data Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Privacy and Data Use

  Leveraging the use (or threatening the use) of user data.    Its not clear if the tweet referenced below went just to the people referred to.   If not is it just...

MIT Intelligence Quest
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Intelligence Quest

Quite a challenge.  The ultimate goal of what we agree is collective intelligence.  Much more at the MIT IQ  link below, than at the Boston Globe article.MIT Enlisting...

Predicting Perfectly with Machine Learning?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Perfectly with Machine Learning?

Been in the forecasting business for a long time.   Taught it, used it, made excuses for it.   So always skeptical about perfect forecasting.   It does not exist...

Integrated Work System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Integrated Work System

A conversation with former enterprise colleagues led me to this piece on reliability innovation I had a small part in.    See the tag links to Los Alamos Labs,the...

Barriers to Smartphone Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Barriers to Smartphone Checkout

A major them in our retail tech innovation center.How steep are the barriers to smartphone checkout?"To improve conversion retailers should improve their UX but...

Autonomy Ecosystems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomy Ecosystems

A conversation yesterday led to the problem, challenges  and opportunity of planning for value ecosystems:In Addreessen:The Autonomy Ecosystem: From Self-Driving...

Human Team Collaboration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human Team Collaboration

U.S. Army Scientists Improve Human-Agent Teaming by Making AI Agents More TransparentARL NewsResearchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have developed...

Facial Recognition Beyond the Human
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facial Recognition Beyond the Human

Will this work for any animal?  Plants?  What are the needed characteristics of something living that would allow this to consistently work over a period of growth...

Misuses of Statistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Misuses of Statistics

Nicely done, sign up with DSC, always useful.Misuses of Statistics: Examples and Solutions  by Vincent Granville  in DSCThis resource is part of a series on specific...

Robots Patrolling Walmart Aisles
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots Patrolling Walmart Aisles

More on Wal-Mart's Bossa Nova Robotics.  Value and customer impact.  Once again out of stock transparency leads the march for such technology.    We examined many...

Last Place Aversion in a Queue
From The Eponymous Pickle

Last Place Aversion in a Queue

While everyone quickly understands this situation,  and I have taken formal queuing classes, I don't remember it being covered specifically.  Balking is the action...

Enterra Aila Cognitive Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterra Aila Cognitive Assistant

Another assistant from a company we talked to regarding enterprise supply chain solutions, with some unique technical solutions.The Future belongs those who Get...

Cortana Intelligence Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cortana Intelligence Institute

Cortana still exists, though its seen heavy competition in recent days.   Finally some significant response, but still more research than delivery?  Impressed by...

Amazon Announces Improved Skill Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Announces Improved Skill Development

Alexa Skill Management API and Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface Enables Faster, More Automated Skill Management : Alexa Blogs   by Shiraz DattaToday we are...

Shimmer Does Biometric Sensing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shimmer Does Biometric Sensing

Used to be on a cognitive and sensing team at Procter, but lately a bit out of the biometrics space, but still following.  A note from Len Stein at  Ipsos points...

Microsoft Teams vs Slack
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Teams vs Slack

Almost everyone I now talk to now is setting up a Slack channel.  Microsoft Teams is now happening, but still don't see it mentioned by clients.   Has to be a viable...
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