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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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Obituary: Robert Taylor, Computing Pioneer
I never met Computing Innovator Robert Taylor, but through connections at the Pentagon, ARPA and PARC heard of his innovative management that led to advanced computing...
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Robots and Surveillance Teams
Researchers link robots into surveillance team By Bill SteeleRod Kurcoba, Cornell Engineering CommunicationsSeeing many possible views of the same area from fixed...
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Passive RFID Detects Cracks
A kind of sensor we examined for a packaging quality control application, continues to evolve.Passive RFID Tracks Changes in Structural Micro-CracksDai Nippon Printing...
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Virtualitics: Immersing Yourself in Data
Have been taking a look at Virtualitics, a means to immerse yourself with and collaborate with complex data using VR. Clever idea we experimented with before VR...
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Amazon Go
Has been a while since I have heard much about Amazon Go, which is a very limited test to create no-checkout retail. This was one of the top of mind approaches...
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An Omni Channel Data-Driven Retailer
Interesting retail from Ronald van Loon ... Red through for the suggestions.How to Become an Omni-Channel Data-Driven RetailerEveryone's Blog Posts - DSC....
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Proposed, An AI Index to Track Automation
See some of our previous look at Job and task analysis. See the O*Net tag below, and the associated online resource here. A place to start for this kind of analysis...
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Collaborative Machine Learning Training
In CACM. A kind of crowd sourcing of training.Google Tests New Approach to Training Machine Learning Models in eWeek Google is testing a new collaborative machine...
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Predicting Epidemics from Cell Data
If you have followed this blog for a long time, we looked at how to predict epidemics through OTC drug purchase data. Here is a related idea that might be combined...
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Uber and Behavioral Economics
Fascinating piece about behavioral economics. Behavioral economics seems to be OK when everyone agrees that it is good and fair, by their definition. Back...
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Closer Look at Facebook M
Technology Review takes a close and an insightful look at the Facebook M assistant. Long awaited and in broad test. Though I am not a fan of Facebook in general...
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Face to Face Better than an EMail
Not sure of the 34x difference, quite a bit of context involved. But some motivation as to why face to face is better.A Face-to-Face Request Is 34 Times MoreVanessa...
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Semantic Document Processing
Today's call was of interest, and showed how complex document understanding can be:" ... Today ... Our speaker was Sridhar Iyengar, IBM Distinguished Engineer at...
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Augmented Reality Guidelines
Not exactly standards, and more details would be very useful.New guidelines point to an augmented futureLockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble and Caterpillar joined...
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Beyond, to a VR Facemask
Reading emotions was one of our early efforts to understand consumer interactions with products. This seems to take it beyond that. For what applications? In...
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P&G and Amex, Building AI Past and Present
Tom Davenport mentioned some of our past AI work at P&G in his recent HBR article. Below an introductory excerpt, much more detail at the link. While considerable...
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Examples of AI and Machine Learning in Industry
From O'Reilly: Some intriguing examples.Free: AI and Machine Learning in IndustryIn Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industry: Perspectives from...
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Manufacturing Needs Digital Ready Infrastructure
In the Cisco Blog. Makes sense. Note the mention of VR, which led me to this in a search for practical examples. Why Do Factories Need a Digital-Ready Infrastructure...
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Creating a Happy Workplace
Podcast: On creating a happy workplace. In Knowledge@Wharton. A study done with firefighters. Perhaps an unusual context to map against the typical office?...
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