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Data Science for an Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science for an Internet of Things

More extracts form the Open Gardens blog by Ajit.   Following now.Creating an open methodology for Internet of Things (IoT) Analytics: Data science for Internet...

Target to Test Vertical Farms in Stores
From The Eponymous Pickle

Target to Test Vertical Farms in Stores

Interesting play that uses existing real estate footprints.  Attract new consumers.  Place to test other technologies like drones and robotics to test sensor and...

McKinsey Surveys the Gig Economy
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey Surveys the Gig Economy

McKinsey via surveys and useful interpretation and advice for our 'industry'.Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economyBy James Manyika, Susan Lund...

Evolving CRISP-DM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolving CRISP-DM

We examined, but never formally used Crisp-DM.  ( Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining ) Even if you do not use it formally, its worth looking at asIn...

Quantum Problems and Grocery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Problems and Grocery

Interesting because we looked at potential problems for quantum, and very combinatorial problems are there.  But not, practically,  delivery routing.   Which by...

AI That Turns a Body into a Digital Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI That Turns a Body into a Digital Platform

Quite fascinating approach related in engineering.com, with multiple and unexpected uses.Meet the AI That Turns a Body into a Digital PlatformMichael Molitch-Hou...

Meaning of Life without Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Meaning of Life without Work

The Singularity University Asks:   What Is the Meaning of Life If Society Doesn’t Need You to Work Anymore?    by David J. Hill   With several people involved that...

Lists in the Virtual Assistant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lists in the Virtual Assistant

In general have found the management of shopping, to-do and related lists in virtual assistants to be too primitive for general use.  People naturally think using...

Google's Daydream VR Examined
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Daydream VR Examined

Hand on look in Engadget.  Indxpensive,.Field of view claimed to be good.  Emerging content.  Only one compatible phone at this time, a key issue? Google's Daydream...

The Asimov Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Asimov Institute

Brought to my attention:Asimov Institute: Machine CreativityWe are an artificial intelligence research company that utilizes deep learning technology to develop...

Robotics Everywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotics Everywhere

Because the seas are much less crowded than the streets, robotics are taking over oceans for a number of purposes.   The air will soon be next.  In Technology Review...

Dishwasher Things Ordering Their Own Detergent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dishwasher Things Ordering Their Own Detergent

A long time idea often discussed in the enterprise.   And another spin of the IOT.  In Business Insider:  by Leanna Garfield:  GE's new $1,500 dishwasher automatically...

Blockchain Reinventing Organizations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Reinventing Organizations

When I first read about these methods, was not expecting that  Blockchain Will Transform And Reinvent Organizations, Ecosystems And Economies - in Forbes  By Shanker...

Amazon Streams New Engagement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Streams New Engagement

Despite all the other aspects of the Amazon Echo,   I believe delivering music easily by voice command is the thing that gets most people interested.   It has flipped...

VR and Mental Health Care
From The Eponymous Pickle

VR and Mental Health Care

Saw this suggested a number of times a decade plus ago.  Can you set up environments to 'train' way issues like these?  It did not seem to gain traction then,  Does...

Towards Multi-Step Expert Advice for Cognitive Computing.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Multi-Step Expert Advice for Cognitive Computing.

Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series this week, Thursday, October 13, 2016 at...

Material Science Trivia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Material Science Trivia

This bit of material science trivia would have been useful in a problem from long ago.   What force does it take to push an object through muddy or sandy material...

Sirens and Geofeedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sirens and Geofeedia

Had not heard of the Geofeedia system.  Previously wrote about Siren approaches to detecting unrest.  Had heard of the growing centralized systems that integrate...

Most Innovative Spaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Most Innovative Spaces

In the building of our innovation centers we took early looks at what it meant to be innovative.  I was in particular about what it took to be interactive withFastCoDesign...

Smartphone Changing Home Shopping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone Changing Home Shopping

Well, yes, Smartphones already change the way most people behave in many spaces.  So its natural that once they strongly embed the behavior, it will change howIn...
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