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Pingpad Building onto Slack for Knowledge Sharing
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Pingpad Building onto Slack for Knowledge Sharing

I see that long time connection Ross Mayfield, who we worked on in early corporate wiki days with Socialtext, is building onto Slack,   He writes:  "  .... We are...

Random but with Geometric Order
From The Eponymous Pickle

Random but with Geometric Order

A mathematical, but but not very technical article, but the implications are not easily thought about. The non-order called randomness has a remarkable number of...

Predictive Analytics Interview
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Predictive Analytics Interview

Good piece, non technical, relatively little about how results will be integrated with the decision process.Talk with Eric Siegel on predictive analytics.  Good...

Psychology of Loyalty Programs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Psychology of Loyalty Programs

In CustomerThink.   by David Feldman of Catchit Loyalty.   Straightforward overview.

Deep Dive on Consumer Product Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Dive on Consumer Product Innovation

From Deloitte.   Good overview ..Consumer product companies face ongoing challenges from slowing industry growth to declining brand loyalty and the rise of unconventional...

Looking for Sarcasm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking for Sarcasm

Have been looking at the general problem of how to detect demographic and personality indicators via twitter streams.  Here is an example described of detecting...

Wearable, IOT Memory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearable, IOT Memory

In CWorld: New kinds of very low power memory for Wearables and IoT by Samsung and IBM.  I am thinking that building simplicity will be particularly useful for...

Skype to Translate Business Meetings
From The Eponymous Pickle

Skype to Translate Business Meetings

Imagine your conferencing systems translating all the interactions.   Trouble is, translation is still not perfect, so be cautious about this.  In CWorld, 

Considering Elements of an AI Revolution
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Considering Elements of an AI Revolution

Nicely done piece.  As a practitioner in the space, long ago and now, I like the thoughts.AI Revolution 101  by Pawel SysiakOur last invention, greatest nightmare...

Foundational  Course for Statistical Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foundational Course for Statistical Thinking

My interaction with Columbia University led me to the following course.  This is meant as a preparatory foundation course for those taking graduate professional...

Open Connectivity Foundation
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Open Connectivity Foundation

Just brought to my attention,  The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF). The breadth of corporate support does look to be good." ... Efforts led by ARRIS, CableLabs...

Voice and Next Generation Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Voice and Next Generation Search

A now long term test of voice interaction with the Amazon Echo and increased use of Siri  has led me to rethink voice use in other environments.     Where can it...

Cortana for the Smart Home
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Cortana for the Smart Home

Long ago we met with MS Research about their approaches to the smart home.  Seems they had dropped that approach since then. .  Are they back again pushing standards...

IFTTT Connects to Skype
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IFTTT Connects to Skype

IFTTT, a means to create simplified bots based on channels of information, has now been attached to Skype. It is already attached to many other social streams....

Brain and Plans Behind Google's AI
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Brain and Plans Behind Google's AI

Seems somewhat limited comparing this to general cognitive AI.   Also note that the proposal needs some semantic web of knowledge relating to the context of the...

Shoe Recognition by Disney
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Shoe Recognition by Disney

How much better is this than face recognition?    Positioned as less personal I assume.  Link to demographics and style.Disney may track park visitors using shoe...

Baidu AI, Augmented Reality and The Du Series
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Baidu AI, Augmented Reality and The Du Series

Note also Baidu's work on Virtual Assistants.   Its a natural connection to AR, since the augmentation can include required levels of assistance.  Don't see why...

Future of Work: Riding the Wave of Change
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Future of Work: Riding the Wave of Change

Precisely this question came up during a recent look at how you should prepare for an AI and Data Analytics Driven future.   Well done, non technical piece.  Its...

Flower and Plant  Recognition
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Flower and Plant Recognition

As a Botanist of sorts, always of interest.   And how it differs from face recognition.Machine Learning Researchers Team Up With Chinese Botanists on Flower-Recognition...

A History of E-Mail
From The Eponymous Pickle

A History of E-Mail

An interesting detailed history of e-mail.   Remember parts of it that I played with on the Arpanet.  It remains surprising how 'recently' some of this was created...
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