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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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Webcams and Maps
My writing about the famous coffee pot Webcam, and its internet of things implications, reminded me of work we did looking at the output of public webcams as data...
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Augmented Beauty
Another look at an old idea. Been connected with a half dozen attempts. Will augmented reality tech finally make this work? See my tags below for more examples...
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Faces of Customer Education
So what is the best way? Advertisements? Blogs? Twitter Streams? Have been operating with all of these for some time, but what is engaging and efficient?The...
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Overcome Resistance to Change by Enlisting the Right People
Just completed teaching a course at Columbia University on Change Management in Analytics. Used some thoughts from this article. Good thoughts.Overcome Resistance...
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AI, Robots Won't Try To Kill Us
I mentioned this Stanford study when it came out. Worth the read. Now Fast Company takes a closer look. 'Try' is the operative word. Long view is right, with...
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Minds, Machines, Precision and the Internet of Things
Timothy Chou writes:" ... On the heels of the successful Minds+Machines 2016, the IoT Institute has launched a class, which uses my new book, Precision, as the...
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Paro Therapeutic Robot
A friend, who works in home health care, sent me a note about the Paro Therapeutic Robot. She saw it live and was impressed. Comes out of work in Japan, where...
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Recommender Systems Beyond Matrix Completion
Recommender Systems: Beyond Matrix Completion/AbstractBy Dietmar Jannach, Paul Resnick, Alexander Tuzhilin, Markus ZankerCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 59 No.Abstract...
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New Chip Usage to Power AI
Re-using chip designs to perform the methods used for AI applications. Now new chip designs are in play.Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI...
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Putting Coffee Machines on the IOT
It has long been a challenge to connect coffee machines to the internet. Something comfortable.about making coffee available reliably at all times and letting...
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New Products for a CPG Giant
I no longer work for consumer product CPG Giant Procter & Gamble. I did analytics and competitive analysis innovation work for them for years. I still haveLysol...
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Gartner on Augmented Marketing Reality
In the Gartner Marketing Blog. Good piece, See my posted piece yesterday on an impressive Hololens demo. The idea is a decade old, we tested it then, but the...
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What Does it Mean to be Digital?
Some good ongoing posts on the process of digitization in the Cisco blog. Asks 'So what are you trying to do? The ultimate business process question. And...
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Teaching Algorithms Right vs Wrong
Do we know what is right and wrong? In obvious cases, yes, but am starting to wonder if the label can be much abused. And the underlying mechanism, hidden in...
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AT&T Offers Limited Text Chat via Alexa
A first, integrating multiple communications channels via Alexa. Here from AT&T. Still quite limited, 10 contacts only, but I like the direction. Closer toAmazon...
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Bots in the Azure Cloud
More capabilities for building Bots. I think the definition is still too loose. Microsoft launches Azure Bot Service to bring more bots and AI into the cloud by...
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Hololens Moving Towards Real World Applications Beyond Games
Saw today a video demo from a Dutch company called Wortell, which is a Microsoft partner developing 'practical' applications of the Hololens. Using head mounted...
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Turning Data into Leverage
You have data, there is pressure to gather and archive more. What is its value?Turning data into leverageOzan Turgut discusses how to use visualization and analytics...
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Medical Device Security
In the CACM: Was brought directly to my attention recently. This is video history, but useful as an introduction as well. Covers well beyond data security,...
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