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Innovation Takes Focus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Takes Focus

About the focusing of innovation.  In Innovation Excellence.   Well done with historical examples about mission and strategy.

Ontology Editing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ontology Editing

Brought to my attention.  We worked with Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab in the past. They have made some progress since thenProtogeA free, open-source ontologyProt...

My Take on a Year with Amazon Echo
From The Eponymous Pickle

My Take on a Year with Amazon Echo

Is Amazon Alexa good at understanding your needs vocally?   Is it a good assistant?  For very narrrow but also useful domains, Yes.  For general understanding that...

Innovating and Building the Amazon Echo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovating and Building the Amazon Echo

Behind the building of the Amazon Echo, and a look at how Amazon builds big innovations.  Luck or creativity?  " ....  The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo...

Look at the SAP IOT Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Look at the SAP IOT Platform

In Medium:  " ... As an emerging backbone to Internet of Things (IoT) deployment, SAP’s IoT platform is the key for the future development and scalability of IoT...

AI and Human Values
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Human Values

Just this week looked back again at the work by Cyc to understand human common sense.    But that is only part of the challenge.   We will need to address values...

Quantum Advances
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Advances

Some additional quantum computing advances.  Some worry that these methods will make encryption less secure.

Internet of Things Needs Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things Needs Design

Well, yes, have been saying this for decades, even when the 'thing' was only an attached RFID strip. Classic architecture and standards argument.  Make it 'Open'...

Confidence  vs Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Confidence vs Intelligence

Generalized thought, but useful.   A little like 'A for effort'.  Acquired skill is still very useful.  Backing up your confidence also useful.Here Is Why Confidence...

Customer Relationships Beyond Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Relationships Beyond Advertising

Podcast and text.  The continued transferal of control to the customer." ... How many times do you block advertising in an app or online? Yet, many companies persist...

Another IFTTT Tool for Automated Workflow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Another IFTTT Tool for Automated Workflow

This has always been a good idea, surprised there has not been more competition.  Still not ready, in development.  Implications for combining IOT activityMicrosoft...

Open AI Gym is Now in Place
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open AI Gym is Now in Place

An Open AI Dojo, some are calling it.  To set up standards for AI.  It is an open Beta." ... We're releasing the public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing...

Amazon as a Logistics Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon as a Logistics Company

In Fastcompany: They certainly need the best of efficiency in supply chains and logistics.    But it is still ultimately an innovative retailer.

Enterprise Ontology Frameworks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise Ontology Frameworks

An investigation brought this to my attention.  Ontologies can give organization to many kinds of analytics processes.The Enterprise Ontology Reference Framework...

NY Times Continues to Push Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

NY Times Continues to Push Virtual Reality

Continued effort to change a basic form delivery of journalism. In Engadget: NY Times sends 300,000 Google Cardboard viewers to subscribersThe Gray Lady wants to...

Samsung's Personal Assistant: Otto
From The Eponymous Pickle

Samsung's Personal Assistant: Otto

And yet another assistant example: Samsung's Otto.  Always attentive.  Seemingly more oriented to the internet of things. Mode video directed like a security camera...

Seeing AI Interest and an AI Talent Grab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeing AI Interest and an AI Talent Grab

Indications of where the interest is, and where the talent is coming from.  I see it myself in a number of general inquiries I see that ask  How do we do that?what...

McDonalds and Gaming Tablets
From The Eponymous Pickle

McDonalds and Gaming Tablets

In the Verge: A look at how McDonald's is testing and potentially integrating tablets into store experiences.  Not enough detail in the article.  This opens the...

Wal-Mart Largest IT Investor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Largest IT Investor

Surprising that they are tops across industries:  Details.  In RISNews: " ... For the second year in a row retail powerhouse Walmart has spent the most money on...

Smartstones and Speech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartstones and Speech

Mentioned here a number of times, I have a small connection ...An Entrepreneur Makes Speech a Reality for All" ... Smartstones, Inc., a company taking great leaps...
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