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How Will Robotics Alter Staffing Models in Retail?
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How Will Robotics Alter Staffing Models in Retail?

Have been following how robotics will interact with in-store retail personnel.  Lowe's is an interesting example to follow.  How will this alter staffing models...

AI in the Everyday Enterprise
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AI in the Everyday Enterprise

Always interested in how AI will be inserted into the enterprise.  We made early, simplistic attempts that were highly focused, very successful at times, but not...

RFID Enabled Packaging
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RFID Enabled Packaging

Continue to follow RFID solutions.  We tested many alternatives in our labs.Prime Vision to Offer RFID-enabled Packaging SystemThe solution provider hopes to improve...

Complexity and Interaction
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Complexity and Interaction

Interesting thoughts about the complexity of conversation.Caring Cyborgs   Asian Scientist (01/03/17)  Social robots designed to interact with people could act...

Harnessing Automation
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Harnessing Automation

In McKinsey.  Ultimately we will have to deal with this.   To me this will mean better collaboration between humans, machines and evolving tacit knowledge.   The...

Talk: Cyber Social Learning Systems
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Talk: Cyber Social Learning Systems

Good talk today, looking at the complexity of delivering learning to health care systems.  The integration of control systems, machine learning and AI with human...

Linear Regression Visual Geometry
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Linear Regression Visual Geometry

Nice piece in DSC.  Technical, but visually enlightening, about our most used analytical technique.   Good way to understand it and its components.   Posted by ...

SoundHound
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SoundHound

Had heard of these folks, in particular of their work with Samsung.   Potentially drives voice to assistants and chatbot capabilities.    Competitive to Alexa and...

Dashboards and Analytics
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Dashboards and Analytics

Brought to my attention LogiAnalyticsCreating Genius AppsLogi helps you seamlessly embed custom analytics in your apps—empowering your customers and employees with...

AI: Getting Closer to Customers at Scale
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AI: Getting Closer to Customers at Scale

In Linkedin.  Good thoughts, the integration of Cloud and AI ....AI: Getting Closer to Customers at ScalePublished on January 31, 2017by Steve Turner Introduction...

Cyber Social Learning Systems
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Cyber Social Learning Systems

  " ... Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on Thursday, February 2, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT).  Our speaker is Kevin Sullivan from University,...

Towards an Assistant Powered Smart Home
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Towards an Assistant Powered Smart Home

It always struck me that the smart home would never build momentum unless it were professionally integrated into home building and renovation.    Smarthome enthusiasts...

Amazon's Air Hub Takes Off
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Amazon's Air Hub Takes Off

A major retailer goes to the air for supply chain efficiencies.   A first I believe.  Implications? In ChainstoreAge ...   Amazon's air cargo hub takes off    by...

Textile Muscles
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Textile Muscles

Textile Muscles Could Power ClothingTextile Muscles Could Power Clothing ...   In IdeaConnection.Textile muscles made of flexible polymers could open the door to...

Alexa Anywhere
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Alexa Anywhere

A set of headphones lets you talk to Amazon echo anywhere.  Not sure why I might want to do this, but might have a hands-free business application.  Does add to...

AI Newsletter
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AI Newsletter

O'Reilly's latest AI Newsletter.  Usually informative.  Often linking to their books and related materials and webcasts.  Worth a follow.

Why Should Algorithms Explain themselves?
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Why Should Algorithms Explain themselves?

Some of our earliest work in delivering expertise via AI to the enterprise failed because the system could not explain its reasoning to its users.   The systemIn...

MS Buys Deep Learning Company
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MS Buys Deep Learning Company

Continuing to be interested in what 'conversation' means for AI.    For humans it is a key part of sharing, delivering, learning and developing expertise.  HowDeep...

Apple Making Smart Glasses
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Apple Making Smart Glasses

Now back to the idea of augmented reality glasses, where Google glass failed, though is apparently still being worked.  Do we want fashion, or actual value, orWhy...

Salespeople and Executives
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Salespeople and Executives

Worked on executive information systems that linked sales people and executive decisions.Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are CostlyFrank...
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