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Capital One is on the Echo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Capital One is on the Echo

Music, Shopping lists, Trivia. Simple Games.  All entertainment interactions.  But now Capital One is on the Amazon Echo.  Quite an interesting uptick on the seriousness...

Self Service Data Preparation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self Service Data Preparation

Watson linking to Cognos.   And note too the link to data preparation, often a messy issue.New! Self-service Data Preparation Tool for Watson Analytics and Cognos...

Need a Smart Home Air Freshener?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need a Smart Home Air Freshener?

Brought to my attention.  Note the ability to link to smart home hub.  How much consumer interest will there be?   Novelty vs value?  Another leveraging of Febreze...

Faster Machine Unlearning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Faster Machine Unlearning

In the CACM: " ... Researchers at Lehigh and Columbia University have developed a machine-learning method that involves making such systems forget the data's "lineage"...

Power of Selling to the C-Suite
From The Eponymous Pickle

Power of Selling to the C-Suite

C Suite as most receptive audience.    Saw this in a number of examples, even within the big and bloated enterprise.  Less cultural flap and interference.  xpectation...

Data Capital
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Capital

A topic I did a study on a few years ago and reported on here as 'Data assets'.  A favorite issue that asks the questions:  How can I predict the value of a data...

Acellerators and Incubators for Corporate Transformation.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Acellerators and Incubators for Corporate Transformation.

Stefan Lindegaard  ... Author, speaker, advisor on corporate transformation, (open) innovation management and the people side of innovation ...Accelerators andCorporate...

Car Ballet: Eliminating Traffic Lights with Car Sensors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Car Ballet: Eliminating Traffic Lights with Car Sensors

A somewhat exciting and scary idea out of MIT:As vehicles become more wirelessly connected, communicating with each other and the infrastructure around them, traffic...

What will Make Future Computing more Powerful?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What will Make Future Computing more Powerful?

As Moore's law slows, what will drive new capabilities in computing?  Lots of things.  Quantum computing, new form of parallelism,  more accessible data, AI toThe...

Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

In the HBR. The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. This means that IT departments...

Virtually Observing your IOT Environment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtually Observing your IOT Environment

I remember a similar VR application suggested:  Observing behind the walls of a building (based on blueprints) in order to do maintenance planning and operations...

A Future World of Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Future World of Robots

Nature looks at a future world of 2040 where everyone has a helper robot. " .... Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and couldby...

Coding Tips for Speeding up Python
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coding Tips for Speeding up Python

Technical in CWorld: This came up in a recent effort.  Python is an interpreted language, thus slower than codes like C or Java. But there are ways to improve the...

Columbia Master of Science in Applied Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Columbia Master of Science in Applied Analytics

Via Kaiser Fung" ... We have a bunch of classes in the "leadership, management, andcommunications" area, listed here:http://ce.columbia.edu/applied-analytics/master...

Lucid and Cyc for Pattern Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lucid and Cyc for Pattern Recognition

Description of Lucid, which combines pattern recognition and learned AI using Cyc,The Next Step Artificial Intelligence Has Been Waiting ForOver 800 AIs can crunch...

On the Advance of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Advance of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

In CACM:   Video and text. Useful from both a statement of problems and approaches." .... Indeed, new tools and new techniques—particularly open source technologies...

Business Anthropology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Anthropology

In Innovation Excellence:  As I recall we had one corporate anthropologist.  Don't know if that still the case.  What is that and what is it meant to produce?  An...

A Futurist Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Futurist Blog

I recently read James Altucher's Medium post: Three Trends for the next 50 Years, which I liked, that made me revisit his futurist blog.   More that just about...

Quietly Supersonic
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quietly Supersonic

Remember seeing the Concorde over London a number of times, and then over West Chester Ohio for the last time.  Would be nice to see the capability again.   Quietly...

InHalio Just Launched
From The Eponymous Pickle

InHalio Just Launched

" ... We have been in development on this for the last four years…therefor heads down and nose to the grind stone and  all that…as you know. .... 5th Screen Digital...
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