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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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Bluemix Supports Hangout Analytics
Nice to see some now sevices in Bluemix Cloud that support real time stream analytics. This is notably of interest to applications like Retail. Updates in their...
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A Virtual Reality Department Store
Hardly first. What this is depends in part on the definition of VR. I have seen and even helped build virtual stores in virtual worlds and in laboratory settings...
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Mixed Reality in Windows Holographic Announced
Microsoft announces to 'insiders' the availability of Windows Holographic to partners. Hardware and software costs are still high for the individual. Callingsee...
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Wal-Mart Competing with Amazon on Delivery
Wal-Mart is starting to experiment with using Uber and Lyft services for delivery. Driectly competing with the delivery expertise of Amazon. In Mashable.
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AI, Cognition and Creativity
"AI, Cognition, and Creativity", talk by - by Prof Dr Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück,Germany ... More on his research here. Slides. Recording...
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Walmart Develops a Drone
Like this application, we examined a number for warehouse applications. Simple, cheap, readily manipulable sensors that move to check inventory. We did not considered...
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Watson Delivers Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Ads
A new automation play in the works with a number of participants. Note also the natural language and voice interaction components. New channels of automatedWeather...
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Marketing Automation Animation
Marketing automation defined in a 60 second animation. Well done, but simplistic and fairly obvious. Still a good starting point for thinking about automation...
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Alteryx and Tableau Guide
Used Tableau for years in the enterprise, mostly known for data visualization. here a 'definitive guide' for using it with Alteryx, which is known for data preparation...
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True Omnichannel Retailing
Amazon being Omnichannel. In Retailwire. Discussion prompted by Amazon recently opening physical locations. Of course one way to look at this is the scale...
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Wages and Jobs, a Future with More Robotics
Consider the interaction between, wages, jobs and getting things done. Starting to see more robotics in kiosks to replace labor in additional contexts. Implications...
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A Disturbing Loss of Linkedin Security Most of You Should Still Care About
A few days ago I got a message from Linkedin. You know them, the near-monopoly of professional credential information for many millions of people? They saidmy...
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German Manufacturing Revolution
In the HBR:" ... Germany’s automakers, auto suppliers, machinery companies, and machine tool builders have long been considered the world’s leaders in manufacturing...
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Urban Intelligence
A system called Placemeter takes as input video feeds and analyzes images to determine what is going on outside your doors. Possible retail measures? Video ...
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IOT Failure Prediction
Attended this webinar of interest, with a largely nontechnical approach, other parts will follow: " Industrial IoT and Failure Prediction on event signals | Part...
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Helping Humans Work Better with Smart Machines
Useful thoughts, because we will have to deal with increasingly smarter machines.How to Help Humans work Better with Smart Machinesby Thomas H Davenport, It’s...
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Curriculum for Cognitive Science
Fascinating new discussion I am participating in is underway. Follow along. Will pass along excerpts here.A New “Science of Cognitive Computing” CurriculumPosted...
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Giving your Assistant a Personality
How much personality does a virtual assistant need to get acceptance from the public? At what point is it entertainment, engagement .. even trust? Usually'Google...
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Will A Robot Be Your Boss?
Inevitably. Maybe not your next boss. But soon. Also depends upon the definition of boss and robot ... but machine learning systems will be tracking what is...
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