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Procter Singapore Supply Chain Center
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Procter Singapore Supply Chain Center

In Business Journal, about Procter&Gamble:" ... The Singapore E-Center will be the Cincinnati-based company’s (NYSE: PG) first of its kind outside the U.S. and...

Microsoft Expands Cognitive Services
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Microsoft Expands Cognitive Services

I remain disappointed by the integration level of Cortana assistant with other MS services, but at least now Microsoft seems to be advancing on cognitive services...

End of Brand Loyalty?
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End of Brand Loyalty?

Of much importance to my former employer and all of CPG.  Still don't see its involved with culture. just the channels that cultures currently use for information...

Oracle and Moat for Measurement and Analytics
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Oracle and Moat for Measurement and Analytics

Its all about accurate and universal measurement, directly and indirectly through the results of analytics.  So this is not surprising.Oracle buys MoatCreates the...

Facebook using Augmented Reality
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Facebook using Augmented Reality

Zuckerberg talking how AR will play in Facebook.    And suggests that it will first play through the cameras in people's phones.   Less cumbersome than a headset...

Talk: Artificial Intelligence in the Car
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Talk: Artificial Intelligence in the Car

Upcoming CSIG Talk this week.  " ... This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, April 20, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am...

Microsoft Flow and Buttons
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Microsoft Flow and Buttons

In SiliconAngle: " ... (Microsoft) The company has also introduced something it calls Flow-compatible hardware buttons. They’re somewhat reminiscent of Amazon.com...

Using AR To Transfer Images
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Using AR To Transfer Images

If you can't draw well, or precisely, perhaps you can trace images from a phone App using Augmented Reality.   Clever idea for the right kind of application.  Warns...

Simplified Hearth Rate Sensor Tech
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Simplified Hearth Rate Sensor Tech

In Engadget.   Another interesting breakthrough in health sensor technology.  Possible use for other emotion sensing applications.Panasonic can read your heartThe...

How to Mislead with Data
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How to Mislead with Data

Misleading most often.  I have seen it often in the enterprise and elsewhere.  Good points made in article below, and always worth repeating.    But missing isTell...

DeepMind Outsources Sonnet
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DeepMind Outsources Sonnet

DeepMind, now part of Alphabet, has outsourced Sonnet, a TensorFlow library for constructing neural network modules that allows variable sharing.  Another win for...

Microsoft Updates Flow and PowerApps
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Microsoft Updates Flow and PowerApps

Been waiting for more about this.   This interests me because it addresses workflow and thus business process.  IFTTT does that as well, but in a somewhat restricted...

Shrinking Deep Learning Neural Networks
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Shrinking Deep Learning Neural Networks

Via O'Reilly.  As these tasks take on tougher problems,  efficient architecture will be important.   Even more important as these tasks become real-time.Excerpt...

Learning by Sketching with CogSketch
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Learning by Sketching with CogSketch

Quite interesting idea.  I remember looking at the CogSketch platform.  Had not of thought of it as a learning method.  But many of us do learn visually, can this...

Chrome Secure by Default?
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Chrome Secure by Default?

Recently pointed to this in the Google blog.  Which claims that Chrome is secure by default.  Is this a reasonable claim?   Am a long time Chrome browser user.deceptive...

Resolving Conflict in Self-Managed Teams
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Resolving Conflict in Self-Managed Teams

Further, perhaps more important, when should a team be self managed?   In the HBR:How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict   by Amit MaimonIn a traditional team...

Competing Neural Nets Getting Smarter
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Competing Neural Nets Getting Smarter

We experimented with a similar ideas, using simulation and evolutionary methods to rate alternate neural network designs.  Considerable improvements since then....

BBC Looks at Robots and Workers
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BBC Looks at Robots and Workers

Rise of the robots: What advances mean for workers  By Tim Harford .... No details here, but an interesting set of examples from the BBC.  

Count Down to Jambaar Time
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Count Down to Jambaar Time

Jambaar.com:  The Video-as-a-Service Platform for Data & Technology-Enabled Business Growth   (4 Days from Today)    @JambaarCom

An Immersive Star Wars Land
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An Immersive Star Wars Land

Been reading Brian Jay Jones biography of George Lucas: A Life.  I am  a long time fan of digital cinema and further how it can be made more immersive, so seeing...
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