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Dynamical Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dynamical Machine Learning

Good piece, which combines process and sensors and IoT. Much more detail at the link. Reminds me comments made here before, about how we used classic process control...

Solid State Cooling from SRI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solid State Cooling from SRI

Fascinating development reported in IEEE Spectrum.  Have long been a minor student of the physics of refrigeration,  will this development be practical for cooling...

Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes

A natural step forward, and a place to connect beyond entertainment.  Selection, design, installation, training, security ....  services come into play with devices...

Machines Learn to be Curious
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines Learn to be Curious

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious Quanta Magazine  by John PavlusIn Quanta.  Machines Learn to be Curious.The University of California, Berkeley's Pulkit...

AI Joins the Meeting
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Joins the Meeting

Attentive systems for meeting enhancements.When AI Joins Your MeetingBy Rowan Trollope  One of the best things about working at a company with Cisco’s resources...

Coca Cola, AI and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coca Cola, AI and Big Data

The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success    By Bernard Marr " ... In fact, Coca Cola was one of the first globally-recognized...

Foot Traffic Counting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foot Traffic Counting

This company called Density was brought back to my attention for possible analysis.  we did this kind of analysis in the retail aisle.  (Their site at Density.io...

Amazon Looking at Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Looking at Smart Glasses

Ultimately there will be non obtrusive, wearable communications devices in common use.Report: Amazon is working on smart glasses powered by Alexa   in FastCompany...

Digital Factory Showing an Agile Way
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Factory Showing an Agile Way

Podcast on Digital Factory ModelCompanies are beginning to use digital factories as incubators of more agile ways of working, often filtering the best attributes...

Alexa Powered Lamp by GE
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Powered Lamp by GE

Had heard of this late last year, it is here:GE's Sol lamp is the world's first Alexa-powered desk lamp, and it's brilliant  ... "Amazon's Alexa voice assistant...

AI is Marketing Hype?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI is Marketing Hype?

My team and I were involved in the last big hype cycle of AI.  We lost a large chunk of investment in the space.   So the question is a reasonable one.   What should...

Emergence of Practical Augmented Reality (AR)
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergence of Practical Augmented Reality (AR)

I am a long time experimenter with the concept of AR in Business.  We experimented with very early (1980s) applications with specialized hardware.  For things like...

Wal-Mart and in Aisle Checkout
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart and in Aisle Checkout

Continue to follow the idea of in-aisle checkout, see my tag below.Walmart deploying tech that lets in-store shoppers check out — on their own    By Deena M. Amano...

Constructing an Amazon Echo Skill via Java
From The Eponymous Pickle

Constructing an Amazon Echo Skill via Java

How to construct an Amazon Echo Skill using Java    An introduction in Github.

Nike Customizing Sneakers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nike Customizing Sneakers

Customization or perhaps late stage differentiation.  But note only for a limited time and place.  Plays to the current craze for fast delivery.  Adds a level of...

Amazon, Robotics and Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon, Robotics and Jobs

Amazon Just Showed Us What Really Happens When Robots Replace JobsThey've already got 100,000 robots and are adding (a lot) more.   By Lisa Calhoun   in Inc.  Video...

Open AI Framework by Microsoft and Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open AI Framework by Microsoft and Facebook

From the Facebook research blog.  A further indication of the progress in standardizing how such systems should be built and maintained.   Would be useful to now...

Quartz Guide to AI
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Quartz Guide to AI

 Appears to be a guide useful for the non technical executive.   Good definition of terms at the end.  Intriguing view of the recent progress of AI and why companies...

Getting Design Tips from the Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Design Tips from the Brain

Always interested in the choices made in bio mimicry of any kind.   The architecture will be key. Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains The New York...

Interiew with Mobileye for Driverless
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interiew with Mobileye for Driverless

Getting the data right is the most important part.Vision Sensors by Mobileye.     An interview." ... Though Google has become the US face of the driverless car...
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