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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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Piggly Wiggly 100th Anniversary
The US grocery chain Piggly Wiggly, is said to be the creator of the modern model grocery store, where the customers walk the aisles doing self service. They celebrate...
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Gartner Technological Hype Cycle
I was sent Baseline Magazines's summary commentary on the Gartner Hype Cycle report and asked to comment on it. As usual an interesting document. Reasonable forecasts...
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Movidius Acquired by Intel
Autonomous devices will require vision as their most important sense. In January, 2016 the company announced a partnership with Google. Movidius has been active...
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Robots in the Retail Aisle at Lowe's
Lowes has long been a great experimenter in technology space. But what has lasted? Naturally, since it needs expertise to be delivered in a very complex aisle...
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MIT on Data Science and Statistics
Have been involved in something similar, so this is an interesting approach. I like the emphasis on decisions as opposed to broad scoping on the alleged 'magic'...
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Most Important Skill: Problem Solving
Not know the latest code or algorithms, just solve the problem. In the simplest way possible. If you can just test solution X easily, just test X! So true....
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Deep Learning for Chatbots Part II
More about Chatbots in KDNuggets. " .... Check out part 2 of this tutorial on building chatbots with deep neural networks. This part gets practical, and using...
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Mapbox Intelligent Geospatial
Yes, can see this as a considerable leverage point. That companies like Twitter and Google are already reaping. Discussion in Linkedin.With Mapbox Deal, IBM...
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Service Innovation Professionals
Lots of good information coming out of this group. See the link to their archive of talks. Innovation and delivering the details is key:The International Society...
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Medical Sensing from Smartphones
Good overview of the current state of technology using smartphones for medical sensing. In Technology Review. Adaptable with current tech, odd-ons and remote...
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September/October 2016 Analytics Magazine
The cover story of the September/October issue of Analytics magazine focuses on the threat to Cybersecurity and using better metrics and measurement to addressLead...
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Sensors as Awareness of Things
CWorld writes about what they call 'Awareness of Things' gadgets. I mentioned one of them, the 'Dot' recently. A kind of cheap primitive beacon that can can...
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Future of Automated Work
Good piece on the topic in IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog:A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology...
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Text Summarization with Tensorflow
Quite a considerable effort. Depends on the quality and consistency of the results. Also the domain of language being summarized. Similarities to language translation...
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Where are the Users? in Apps. Fascinating Stats
In Inc. Overall stats were not surprising to me, the details are fascinating, at the link. Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Search lead.People Now Spend...
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Cognitive Computing Consortium
Very nicely done presentation we sponsored by Sue Feldman of the Cognitive Computing Consortium. In particular broadly covering what Cognitive Computing is,Their...
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Data Exhaust
Relatively new term as it relates to the data lake " ... There are no standard definitions or schemas for data exhaust, which tends to be raw and unstructured,...
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Kalman Filter Co-Inventor
Rudolf Kalman, inventor of the ubiquitous filter of the same name, died recently at the age of 86. Out of MIT and Columbia. Impressive work whose value was...
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Smaller and More Flexible Tracking Motes
RFID, AIDC, and IoT News: Intel Demonstrates New Mote that Can Track Parcel Handling HistoryIdea Not New, but Approach Is, with Tiny Mote Powered by Wi-Fi Networks...
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