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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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Keep Your Home Devices from Being Hacked
Apparently yesterday's denial of service attack that brought down a number of key services on the Internet was caused by a distributed denial of services (DDOS)...
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Machine for all Trades
Watson as a machine of all trades. Or at least some trades for now. A good view of where IBM has been applying cognitive applications based on the Watson model...
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Beginners Guide to Convolutional Neural Nets
A beginners intro by a student, about how they work, how they are used and the data required. Nicely explained.
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Consumer Brands Using Chatbots
I have in the talked some of our efforts about using chatbots for consumer brands. FastCompany more generally has an examination of current brands that use chatbots...
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Stephen Hawking Opens British AI Hub
Will be interesting to see the varying views of Hawking and colleagues on different aspects of AI. Building these 'Centers' for studying complex and disruptive...
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Sal Kahn on Mastery Based Learning
Sal speaks at TED about mastery-based learningWould you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students...
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Autonomic Platforms Evolving
I had not used this precise tag 'Autonomic' before, but it is understandable: How do you fully or partially automate systems that support business process? The...
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Macy's to RFID Tag Everything
We were early innovators in the RFID tagging space. Saw it expand widely at the case level. I now see this as an area where you can use some of the same learning...
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Amazon's Bezos: Echo and AI for Health Care
Had brainstormed some possibilities here, but still felt the devices had not evolved enough in terms of accuracy and dependability. Will be watching Amazon Echo...
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Quantum Dot Energy Extraction
In IEEE Spectrum. Quantum dot research at Los Alamos points to efficient window coatings that can extract useful energy.
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Sailfish Suite
Just recently saw this: Big Data Analytics using the Sailfish Suite. " ... MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An algorithm that predicts consumer retail trends down...
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Shopper Marketing Blog
Just discovered this blog 'for practical shopper marketing'. Some useful thoughts about the topic. We did not agree with the premise, but treated the problem as...
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Neural Networks and Complex Reasoning
Beyond just recognition, on to recognizing and reasoning. Like to see this in a business context that includes complex quant optimization. Some of our own experiences...
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Executives and Behavioral Science
Good post, makes sense, but always test the assumptions and the operational results.Why executives should be interested in behavioural science by John Aves In...
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Dealing with Very Large Networks
Architectures and size. With some lessons from Google:" ... I’m pretty sure that you would agree with me if I told you that your enterprise network will just...
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Salesforce Acquisitions for Data and Analytics
Interesting list, speculation of course, but the whys are interesting. In particular for companies that already deal with large amounts of data, its acquisition...
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Changes in the Rules of Retailing
In Knowledge@Wharton:How Target and Amazon Are Changing the Rules of RetailingWharton's Peter Fader and Syracuse's Amanda Nicholson discuss recent moves by Target...
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Omnidirectional Mobile Robotics
On the Ball: Omnidirectional Mobile Robot has just two moving parts. Good play for simplicity.From CMU:Spherical Induction Motor Eliminates Robot’s MechanicalBy...
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Microsoft Slack Competitor via Skype?
A Microsoft Slack Competitor via Skype?Might Microsoft show off its Slack competitor at November 2 event?Microsoft is planning to talk up team collaboration technologies...
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