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Burberry Using IOT
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Burberry Using IOT

Wooing millennial shoppers with Internet of things." ... As an early adopter of IoT and connected digital technologies Burberry has successfully blended both physical...

May-June 2016 Issue of Analytics Magazine
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May-June 2016 Issue of Analytics Magazine

Informs May/June issue of Analytics Magazine focuses on getting the most out of big data & analytics with both mankind and machines.Lead StoryFulfilling the Promise...

Supermarket of the Future: Coop Italia
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Supermarket of the Future: Coop Italia

Akin to our own smart retail laboratory work.  Much more in the tabs below.  Quite a bit of detail and video:   This is from Microsoft:The supermarket of the future...

Google's Cloud Machine Learning in the Mainstream
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Google's Cloud Machine Learning in the Mainstream

In Techexplore:" .... The move is all about taking Cloud Machine Learning mainstream, "giving data scientists and developers a way to build a new class of intelligent...

Wharton Pushes Data and Decision Making
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Wharton Pushes Data and Decision Making

In the WSJ, make require registration.   I particularly like that this includes decision making, not just raw data science.  I have now seen too many examples of...

Combining Data in Novel Ways: Data as Asset, Risk.
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Combining Data in Novel Ways: Data as Asset, Risk.

Risks and rewards.  In O'Reilly.  A favorite topic, but there needs to be a better way to do this, its often so messy that people abandon the process.  This also...

BlockChain for Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

BlockChain for Industry

A transformative change when when you look at this as a ledger:  Not Just Bitcoin: Why the Blockchain Is a Seductive Technology to Many Industries

An AI Assistant Called Viv
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An AI Assistant Called Viv

In TheVerge: Siri's creators will unveil their new AI bot on Monday  By Jacob Kastrenakes  " .... Viv is essentially meant to be Siri, but good. It's an AI assistant...

Train Your Brain to Think About the Future
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Train Your Brain to Think About the Future

We all do this, but how well?  Here looking at it early.Train Your Brain to Think About the Future by Katie KingWhat fraction of your time is spent thinking about...

IBM Gives Access to its Quantum Computer
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IBM Gives Access to its Quantum Computer

I like the idea you can try it yourself from the article at the link.  Now, digital, but non binary computing.  Is it clear this is the future of computing?  To...

Exploring the Wiring of the Mind
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Exploring the Wiring of the Mind

Further exploring the wiring of the mind.  Its not only the wring, but also the 'software', apparently not of the kind we typically deal with.  In Newsweek.

The Search for a Better Battery
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The Search for a Better Battery

I am no longer in the battery business, but always thought that portable energy was important. Where is portable and conveniently store able energy going?    ...

Google OnHub with IFTTT is Looking Like an Echo
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Google OnHub with IFTTT is Looking Like an Echo

When Google first introduced the OnHub, it looked like a too complex and expensive Wifi hub.  Did not give it much thought.  But when hooked to the IFTTT engine...

A Semantic Ecosystem
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A Semantic Ecosystem

A big challenge.  What is a semantic Ecosystem?  By Topquadrant: A like the thoughts to a combination of data, metadata and services ... via an ontology.SEMANTIC...

Getting Aboard the Food Truck Revolution
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Getting Aboard the Food Truck Revolution

In Retailwire.  Here this talks about the Food Truck Concept in retail in particular.  A useful conversation.  But taking it further, should CPG and other companies...

Now Accenture's MyWizard Works
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Now Accenture's MyWizard Works

From Accenture Newsroom:Accenture Launches Intelligent Automation Platform to Deliver Smarter, More Efficient Application Services that Improve Business Outcomes...

Smart Homes
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Smart Homes

Good overview of the state and direction of smart home technology  " ... Smartphones, mesh networks and cloud computing are enabling the long-awaited smart home...

Parallel Graph Analytics
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Parallel Graph Analytics

Extensive piece on this in the CACM.   This studies the structure of complex graphs, similar to graph analytics.  Had never heard exactly this term used for similar...

Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator
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Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator

Samsung continues to move ahead, with smart hubs in standard appliances.  Very expensive appliances.  Such white goods appliances have the problem of dealing with...

Claude Shannon
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Claude Shannon

Historical piece on one my favorite pioneers of the computing era.  A problem we are still dealing with, the relationship between knowledge and data.  Rarely have...
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