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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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Identifiying Plant Disease
Out of the fall garden and back to the possibilities of pattern recognition. Back to my alternate botanic tech universe. Penn State work using deep learning to...
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3D Printing Human Body Parts
3D-Printing Human Body Parts By Keith Kirkpatrick Communications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 10, Pages 15-17 The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing is already...
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Field Farmed by Drones
A Field Farmed only by DronesThe experience of the Hands Free Hectare team suggests that drone agriculture offers some substantial benefits. ... Across the United...
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Millennial Attitudes
Millennials' Attitudes Toward IT Consumerization in the WorkplaceBy Heiko Gewald, Xuequn Wang, Andy Weeger, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Gerald Grant, Otavio Sanchez...
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D-Wave and Quantum Computers
Have followed D-Wave systems for years. Quite a good and detailed piece about what they are doing, their clients and direction.Is Quantum Computing for Real?An...
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Ubiquity Blog from the ACM
New blog by the ACM. The digitally connected world has become a large, swirling sea of information stripped of context. We help our readers make sense of it, find...
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Microsoft Seeking to Dominate VR
Technology Review reports on Microsoft's view. Again, lets see examples beyond gaming. There is real value here.Microsoft Is Going All-in on Virtual and Augmented...
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Explaining Smart Contracts
Have worked with companies that set simple alarms to warn them of renewal dates and expiration of contracts. This takes it much further. Good simplified view....
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Google Releases the Teachable Machine
From the Official Google Blog. No coding. Quite a thought. Exploring.Now anyone can explore machine learning, no coding requiredFrom helping you find your favorite...
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Redesigning Voice and Scanning Shopping Lists
We spent much time looking at ease of use and psych of the shopping list. Often mentioned here (see the tag below). Here is a unitasking solution to groceryAlexa...
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Why we are Social
Something to think about whenever we do Social. I note Davis mentions Byron Reeves, who we used as the basis for some of our work with consumer facing chatbots...
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Wal-Mart Buys Parcel to Compete with Amazon
Walmart buys Parcel in latest attempt to battle Amazon delivery machine by Valentina Palladino in ArsTechnicaWalmart comes to New York in the most Amazon-likeWalmart...
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Deep Learning's Advance
Why did these methods not work in the late 80s? We used them, but could only get them to replicate the performance of classic statistical techniques, to analyze...
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TensorFlow Tutorial
Mostly non technical, useful for non tech exec introduction. Needs more comparative implications to other approaches. Why use it as opposed to other open methods...
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GigaOm Provides Voices in AI
GigaOM has put together a series of at least 7 interviews about AI by practitioners. Note these are not about 'Voice', but about what AI is, as it is definedVoices...
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Samsung Teams with ADT
No mention of Voice or Bixby here. Connection with a major security system provider is important.Samsung teams up with ADT for new SmartThings-powered home security...
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Solver Methods Improved by Frontline
Was an early user of Solver. Should not be forgotten given all the new claims out there today. Solver works directly as an add-on to Excel 365. And as mentioned...
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Future is Now
Gartner looks at futurology:The Future is Here. The Future is Now. by Frank Buytendijk We’re getting a bit tired of all the future hype. Don’t we?In the future...
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Oracle Uses AI to Self Heal, Adapt
Have heard relatively little about Oracle and AI. Useful to look at more examples of internal uses of technologies to maintain and deliver value. Intrigued about...
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