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O'Reilly Newsletter on AI
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O'Reilly Newsletter on AI

O'Reilly piece on AI value  hype.  Good overview of the topic with links to some key indicators and topics.  Positive and negative.  When will the disruption occur...

Understanding How Neurons Compute
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding How Neurons Compute

In CACM:  We still don't understand fully how the activity of neurons cause our brain to work.   New work gathers data that may give us a better understanding,In...

Holacracy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Holacracy

Had heard this term before, but forgotten its exact meaning, seems this is still very uncommon.  I wonder what VCs think about this approach to managing their money...

NodeXL: Creating Network Graphs from Excel
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NodeXL: Creating Network Graphs from Excel

Simple, clever idea.These are network graphs created with NodeXL, a template for graphing network data in Excel® (2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016).NodeXL is a template...

How Amazon Prime Day Links to Amazon Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Amazon Prime Day Links to Amazon Technology

Extract from a much longer CGT article.   Indication of percent changes from last year and rankings versus exact numbers of interactions.  Since most of the technologies...

Value of Functional Packaging
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Value of Functional Packaging

Always an interesting idea, and augmented reality and smartphones bring new capabilities forward. When will they actually create engagement, provide value?    To...

Google Starts to Allow Forgetting
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Google Starts to Allow Forgetting

Have not heard about this anywhere else, but has some fascinating implications.  In the past we always assumed that knowledge would persist.  May that be a thing...

Retail Cyber Scams Advance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Cyber Scams Advance

In Knowledge@Wharton.  A forward looking piece on the current and coming waves of cyber scams in retail.   Good thing to watch as we continue to add new channels...

Amazon Echo and Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Echo and Business Intelligence

Been looking at potential business applications of the Amazon Echo.  Like many virtual advisory applications, you can think of potential 'hands free'  scenarios...

Data World Provides Data Resources
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Data World Provides Data Resources

Activity in the semantic data world,   Dean Allemang mentioned and quoted.   Toward an improvement of the use of data assets.    An indication of increased open...

Pokemon Go Explodes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pokemon Go Explodes

Pokemon has been around for a long time.   We examined the brand long ago.   The idea of using augmented reality to create games that overlapped the real worldSee...

Mistakes Managers Make with Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mistakes Managers Make with Analytics

In the HBR:  Good points, mostly about process and application, rather than technology.   Worth a look.    Obvious to any manager, if they don't buy the hype, and...

Archetypes and Branding
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Archetypes and Branding

Thinking about the brand personality.  I have never seen this done particularly well. Does it end up  constricting, decreasing innovative channels?  Here is...

Is Machine Learning Driving AI?
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Is Machine Learning Driving AI?

Always thought ML was part of AI.   In Datanami: An interesting distinguishing point is made" .... The authors quotes Jaime Carbonell, a professor of computer science...

Free eBook: 23 Reasons to Get Excited About Data
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Free eBook: 23 Reasons to Get Excited About Data

Below, links to a free eBook that covers a number of practical and exciting applications of data analytics. Nicely done,  selected from our collegial group on the...

Design Museum Foundation
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Design Museum Foundation

Of interest, on design museums.  In a sense some of our innovation spaces were aimed at showing evolving design.    So interested in the concept." ... Hope youSam...

Building Information Systems
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Building Information Systems

In VRFocus:  On the obvious connections of virtual reality to Building information Models  (BIM).   Had examined this some years ago in firefighting and first respondent...

Robotic Ships
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Robotic Ships

Creating robotic ships.  Rolls Royce experiments with augmented reality to control and deploy the idea.  Implications for efficient future supply chains.

Bot Functionality in Skype Conversation
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Bot Functionality in Skype Conversation

MS appears to be serious in augmenting conversations through new levels of intelligence.  Still primitive, but the direction is interesting ...  Ultimately adding...

Cisco on Connectivity, IOT and  Innovation
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Cisco on Connectivity, IOT and Innovation

Innovation in the Age of Hyper-ConnectivityAndreas Mai, Director Smart Connected Vehicles at Cisco SystemsAn interview
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