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Flu Prediction Cognitive System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flu Prediction Cognitive System

Using Watson, Twitter and CDC Data for predicting flu epidemics. Modeling under specific contexts. By Prof. Dr. Gordon Pipa, University of Osnabrueck  Embeddedin...

Future of Food Supply in the Hands of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Food Supply in the Hands of AI

Any complex system that requires the direction and interaction of many people and machines. And whose output also depends on many uncontrollable external variables...

Detecting Bias in Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Bias in Algorithms

In Engadget:   Pointers to a paper from Carnegie.  Though a quick read would say that this would address only certain kinds of algorithmic bias.  Technical.  Worth...

Talk On Cognitive Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk On Cognitive Computing

" ... Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday May 26, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT US and 4:30 pm in Germany).  Our presenter this week...

Games that Teach Coding
From The Eponymous Pickle

Games that Teach Coding

In the CACM:   Games that teach coding. ' ... "Research with computer programming interventions in early childhood settings has shown that children as young asGames...

Getting from Labs to Reality in Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting from Labs to Reality in Innovation

Was part of a retail innovation lab for years. So this is very interesting.  We tried, but did not make the transition from lab to reality very well.  Were more...

Sales and High Growth Companies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sales and High Growth Companies

From McKinsey: The Sales Secrets of High-Growth Companies ... The authors of Sales Growth reveal five actions that distinguish sales organizations at fast-growing...

European Commision on Digital Platforms
From The Eponymous Pickle

European Commision on Digital Platforms

In the Economist (registration required) on pricing and Google in the online world.   Are Google (and other large digital platform holders) preventing competition...

Reshaping Open Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reshaping Open Science

Opening science and the data always involved.A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open ScienceTo get a sense of just how important arXiv is,...

Ahold Optimizes Customer Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ahold Optimizes Customer Data

How Ahold USA Optimizes Customer dataCollecting customer data and figuring out how to use it is a challenge for all retailers, one that Ahold USA has met by managing...

Learning with Less Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning with Less Data

In Technology Review: Learning things with far fewer examples.    Pushes at the edges of what is meant by learning,  and varying kinds of errors that define success...

Augmenting Work with VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmenting Work with VR

Related to recent thoughts.  MIT Sloan on the relevance of reinventing work with Virtual Reality, Need some more good examples.   If anyone has some, especially...

Head Mounted Displays and Knowing Your Space
From The Eponymous Pickle

Head Mounted Displays and Knowing Your Space

In VR Focus, an overview of current announcements in head mounted displays and also notably Project Tango.  Advertisers and marketers have taken notice, but I have...

Balancing Automation and People
From The Eponymous Pickle

Balancing Automation and People

Finding the right balance between automation and peopleThis talks about fast food, primarily McDonald's, but the breadth of the problem in retail is considerable...

Scientific American Looks at Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scientific American Looks at Deep Learning

A good introduction.  But still a narrow view. Unveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep LearningInteractive neural network “playground” visualization offers insights...

Scalable Database Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scalable Database Design

Had not heard of the specific concept, but make sense.  ....What Makes a Scalable Database?Database scalability is a concept in database design that emphasizes...

Data Science and Machine Learning Online Encyclopedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science and Machine Learning Online Encyclopedia

Another in process development from DSC.  Exploring, but it will take some time.  Bravo DSC." .... This is one of the first comprehensive machine learning, data...

IOT Central Biweekly Digest
From The Eponymous Pickle

IOT Central Biweekly Digest

With coverage of a recent conference.  Interesting articles.  Am a  member and actively following.  " ... We went to IoT World last week in Santa Clara, California...

Autonomous Corporations Predicted
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autonomous Corporations Predicted

I remember making a presentation in the late 1980s that implied we would soon have portions of our enterprise running autonomously.  The term "lights out" manufacturing...

A Condensed Guide to Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Condensed Guide to Data Science

Nicely done introduction by Vincent Granville of DSC,  links to many useful resources.  Good list, condensed, but still lots there, and considerable variability...
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