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On Worlds of Co-Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Worlds of Co-Innovation

Actually have heard relatively little lately about cooperative innovation lately.  Good to see this from the Cisco blog describing some of their efforts,  withon...

Towards Guidance on Robot Ethics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Guidance on Robot Ethics

Scientists develop official guidance on robot ethics   By Ryan WhitwamIt was decades ago when science fiction great Isaac Asimov imagined a world in which robots...

Connected Consumers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Connected Consumers

Cisco blog on defining the connected ConsumerDefining the Connected CustomerLets take a minute to define what we mean by the connected consumer.First, lets notSecond...

Generalized Dynamical Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generalized Dynamical Machine Learning

Fascinating short piece.  Will this allow us to pay less attention to architecture of neural networks? Technical.   Will take some time to digest. The term 'Generalized'...

Designing Social Interactions in a Teachable Agent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Social Interactions in a Teachable Agent

This a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series this week, Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (9:30am CT, 7:30 am PT).  Our...

Crowdsourcing Science with Foldit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing Science with Foldit

I recall reading about this some time ago, and wondering about the value of such methods.  Our own R&D groups had looked at solving related problems.  Here is an...

D-Wave Quantum Offers 1000X Speedup for Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave Quantum Offers 1000X Speedup for Machine Learning

I Have been following D-Wave Quantum Computing for some time.  And yes, if this plays out, it may well revolutionize aspects of machine learning.   D-Wave has been...

Digital Defining the Shopping Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Defining the Shopping Experience

Discussion of interest regarding a Deloitte study.  In RetailWire:Is digital defining the shopping experience?   by Tom RyanAccording to a new Deloitte study, digital...

Nielsen and Programmatic Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nielsen and Programmatic Advertising

Interesting collaboration of players in advertising, retail, measurement and loyalty systems.Nielsen Partners with I2C on Porgrammatic VentureUK Nielsen is collaborating...

Clark.AI for Taking Call Notes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Clark.AI for Taking Call Notes

An interesting,  relatively focused example,  of an AI assistant capability.    Once a few of these take off, people will expect this kind of assistance.    Have...

Myths About an AI Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Myths About an AI Future

Brought to my attention. Its Going to Kill Us! and Other Myths About the Futureof Artificial Intelligence by Robert D Atkinson.  Information Technology and Innovation...

Debating the Rules of Brainstorming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Debating the Rules of Brainstorming

In Fastcompany:  Still a debate.  The key may be to just do it at all with as many participants as possible.

Assertiveness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Assertiveness

I like this series, which also links to related research.    This Is How To Be More Assertive: 3 Powerful Secrets From Research.  In particular in this edition:...

Apples Continues Moves in VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apples Continues Moves in VR

Continued interest by big players in Virtual and Augmented reality moves.  Lets see the big workplace applications.Apple continues hiring augmented and virtualBy...

Digital Storytelling and Process
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Storytelling and Process

Though I have come from a storytelling (marketing) company, its still rarely thought of in the realm of engineers and analysts.   Because it rises too far apart...

Judging the Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Judging the Algorithm

Excellent piece.    I have been involved in several projects which look at the correctness of algorithmic methods.   One point to make where a distinction is necessary...

Hololens Learns from Google Glass Failure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hololens Learns from Google Glass Failure

Well put.  Gaming will always be there, but real, practical uses will open many more possibilities.  I had two different applications for Glass posed to me, but...

Blockchain Used for Contract Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Used for Contract Management

Interesting use of the smart contract idea by very digital companies.   The example of its use and value is very useful.  Note the Open Source use of Hyperledger...

Getting Visual in the Smart City
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Visual in the Smart City

Analysis of NYC Yellow Cab Taxi data  Posted by SupStaIn DSC, a visualized analysis of Yellow Taxi Cab data about NYC using R.  Gives an example of what can be...

Free Tools for Monte Carlo Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Tools for Monte Carlo Simulation

Via Sam Savage.  Industrial Monte carlo simulation was commonly used in our enterprise as an analytic method. .  It has been a method around for a very long time...
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