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Surveillance State as a Gadget
From The Eponymous Pickle

Surveillance State as a Gadget

Quite an extensive look at how advanced surveillance is now 'affordable':What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget?Maybe it doesn’t...

Promoting Scientific Papers to the Public
From The Eponymous Pickle

Promoting Scientific Papers to the Public

Promoting, and often translating scientific papers and ideas to the more general public.  Its a little like what this kind of blog does.  And what I did in various...

Artificial Intelligence and the Supply Chain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Artificial Intelligence and the Supply Chain

In Financial Experess:   Artificial Intelligence: The next big thing in Supply Chain ManagementImagine the endless possibilities of learning from 2.5 quintillion...

The State of our General Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

The State of our General Assistants

Two major general assistance capabilities for computing platforms, Cortana and Siri continue to improve and expand.  It looks like this kind of voice driven intelligence...

Cisco Service Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco Service Innovation Center

This week’s presenter for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series is Craig Wirkus, Innovation Program Manager, Cisco Services Innovation Excellence Center...

Seymour Papert Dies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seymour Papert Dies

We followed him closely in our AI years.  Also a developer of the Logo language and Lego Mindstorms.  Developed much in the area of technology driven learningSeymour...

Machine Learning and Data Leakage
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning and Data Leakage

Admit I knew the concept, but not the term itself.   Data Leakage.   Using data outside a training set to build a model. Well, surprise, this is in practice always...

What Does it Mean for Everything to be Smart
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does it Mean for Everything to be Smart

What are the challenges for invention on the Internet of Things?  In the early days of our use the only application was an indicator of what a thing was.  So it...

Increased Functions of Mobile Wallets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Increased Functions of Mobile Wallets

And consider also the integration of virtual assistance?How to increase customer engagement with mobile walletsOne method of connecting with users on mobile, which...

Introduction to Graph Databases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introduction to Graph Databases

My latest blog is An Introduction to Graph Databases.   William McKnightAn Introduction to Graph Databases -- UpsideGraph databases are one of the fastest growing...

Cutting a Display for Experimental Packaging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cutting a Display for Experimental Packaging

In Engadget.  An example where you can now cut up a computer display with a pair of scissors. Interesting, once looked at a packaging design project where this...

Procter.  Whats Next in a Club Marketing Era?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter. Whats Next in a Club Marketing Era?

A number of my readers are interested in my former employers activities in marketing and those relationships to technology.  In the latest Cinci Enquirer,  (you...

Capital One Advances Alexa Finance Skills
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capital One Advances Alexa Finance Skills

Always looking for ways to advance the idea of using a virtual assistant.  Here new work by Capital One.  To what is this marketing versus assistance?    What else...

Creating Omni Encounters
From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating Omni Encounters

Its always about creating as many encounters as possible.   In the old days of advertising these were created in your head.  Now there are just many more possibilities...

SAP on Digital Transformation
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP on Digital Transformation

Useful thoughts, always cautious about the hype versus reality view ...  So what does it mean when pushed by a major vendor?   Long term engagement?Digital Transformation...

Interview with Mobileye
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interview with Mobileye

Getting the data right is the most important part.Vision Sensors by Mobileye.     An interview.Though Google has become the US face of the driverless car movement...

A History of Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

A History of Data Mining

In Dataconomy.  Quite a few things left out based on my own experience.  A little too much emphasis paid to neural methods.    Patterns of all sort were being driven...

Towards IoT Standards Alliances
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards IoT Standards Alliances

Towards IoT alliances to create useful standards for the smart home.  Will this lead to improved security as well?    Could also lead to more standardized data...

Bayesian Learning Explained
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bayesian Learning Explained

In KDNuggets.  Good piece on Bayesian learning.  Comparison made to frequentist statistical reasoning.  Could have used this some time ago to explain the idea to...

Combining Human and Machine Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Combining Human and Machine Knowledge

Combining human and machine intelligence, a favorite thought.  People as peripheral.   How do we do it effectively?System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using...
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