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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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Cisco and Much Smarter LED Lighting
Taking LEDs beyond lighting, to the Internet of Things:" ... In PoE lighting, both electricity and data flow over Ethernet cables that connect to LED troffers and...
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Research in a Virtual World
Can you do research in a virtual world? Simulation has often been used to create a model of a system, and then do research, such as sensitivity analysis, in that...
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Power of How Google Search Works
Its been a while since I have thought of Google search beyond the basics. I knew there was more power and subtlety there, but not how to apply it. Now in the ...
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Big Data's Problem
Good piece with an apt warning. Its always about some form of sampling. Even if you could get all observations of the data, say if you are controlling an experiment...
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Kasisto Virtual Assistant
My continued look at virtual assistants " ..... AI-Driven Virtual Assistant from Kasisto Powers India's First Mobile-Only Bank ... Asian banking innovator DBSin...
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Processor Runs from Ambient Radio Waves
In Extremetech: Consider the Internet of Things or Wearable implications" .. A new research initiative between a University of Washington team and TU-Delft in the...
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Knowledge for Discovery
Brought to my attention, a topic always brought up that we also experimented with:Accelerating Discovery: Mining Unstructured Information for Hypothesis Generation...
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Boosting Scientific Discovery CSI Talk
Dear Professors, Students, IBMers and others, Just a reminder about our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday April 28, 2016 at 10:30 amXiaolin...
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Omnichannel Complicates Demand Planning
Interesting conversation in Retailwire:How is omnichannel complicating demand planning?By Tom RyanDemand planning "has become an enigma" for supply chain professionals...
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Retirement a Flawed Concept
Interesting thoughts in the HBR: Retirement is a Flawed Concept. Will comment when I finally try it.
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NeuroWine Claimed
A more direct sensory link than the usual examples. SA neuroscientists develop first NeuroWineBy Admire Moyo, ITWeb's senior news journalist.Johannesburg, 20 Apr...
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New Sensors for an Internet of Things
An internet of things is also connected to its environment, which needs sensors to detect context. Context can drive analytics with data. Looking for new ways...
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An IKEA Virtual Reality App
Always liked the innovation that has come out of IKEA, Here a sims-like VR App. Have not tried yet, but will. How well does this work as VR, as engagement?
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Basic Apache Spark Utilization
Good basic, mostly non technical introduction:Basic Spark Utilization for Analytics in Big Databy Atif Farid MohammadApache Spark is a Big Data Analytics Engine...
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Beginners Guide to Chatbots
Well done article in Medium, with reasonable definitions and pointers to examples and resources. The distinction is made between those driven by machine learning...
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Supply Chain Numbers at Amazon and Wal-Mart
A look at retail heavyweights, their numbers and some key innovations:Supply Chain News: Walmart and Amazon by the Numbers 2016Our Annual Review of the World'sI...
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Failing and Succeeding in the Digital World
Podcast in Knowledge@Wharton: It is counterintuitive to celebrate failures as well as successes. But that is precisely what needs to happen if companies wish to...
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A Look at the Virtual Assistant Landscape
Nicely done view of what is going on, with considerable variance in the definition of assistant. Useful to see the extensive examples here.
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Browsing the Web in Virtual Reality
Has been proposed a number of times. Is this useful? Likely to be created and used? In the relatively early days of the Web you could browse 2D representations...
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