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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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Virtual Realty as Next Frontier of Retail
Is Virtual Reality really practical in retail? A next frontier. For engagement, or for exploring complicated product use in context?
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Gathering in Random Forests
Random Forests. A notable ensemble-style method for analytic classification. Particularly interesting to me because it uses more easily understood decision trees...
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Twitter vs Facebook
In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... Twitter’s effort to find a new CEO is the latest struggle in a long list of challenges that the micro-blogging site has faced over the...
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Whirlpool Builds in the Dash Buy Button
The general idea has been around for more than a decade . I have been testing the Amazon Dash button since last year. Finally it is being integrated for replenishment...
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Robotics at Adidas
Addidas. An example of a company in transition to the use of robots to do manufacturing. In Reuters: Adidas Robotics
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The Value of Getting it Wrong
Being willing to get it wrong, and doing that a number of times to calibrate the inexactness of our methods and models, can be a useful means of both understanding...
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Business Optimization
Working at business process from the point of view of optimization. Or, at least the improvement of an understood system. Understanding it can be hard, butSome...
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The Cognitive Era
Recently at the Gartner Conference, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explained the Cognitive Era in very simple language: " .... “It’s an era of technology and it’s an era...
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Free Field Guide to Data Science
Very nicely done, 126 page, free and shareable introduction to Data Science by Booz Allen Hamilton. Starts very simply, fine for an executive intro. Takes you...
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HBR on the Future of Cars
In the HBR: How should we think about the future of cars? Autonomous, Intelligent. As a service? Regulatory? Liability? Beyond?
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Building VR Cities
An interesting example that reminds me of Second Life. But of course now using headgear rather than on screen. Is the difference in 3D quality important for "...
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Samsung Suggests Large Frig Touchscreens
We experimented with having 'smart screens' on the frig, Samsung and LG made them, but was unclear how many they sold. With the advent of the tablet, you could...
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Simulating Inexact Spreadsheet Numbers
A free, open source package called Guesstimate was just brought to my attention. In Beta. Overview article here. Essentially a means for modeling uncertain values...
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IBM Apple Deal gets to 100th App
IBM-Apple deal reaches key milestone with 100th enterprise appCompetitors may find it hard to match this pace, one analyst suggestsby Katherine Noyes Via Simon...
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AI in the Everyday World
In Wired: Which starts by describing work that Chinese group Baidu is doing in this space, still in early prototype: " ... one of the company’s latest prototypes...
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Sloan on the Emergence of the IOT
Sloan Review on the Internet of Things. Many implications and risks: " ... Yes, the potential insights from IoT are enticing. For example, it’s fun to think...
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SmartThinQ Sensor from LG
How do you connect older home appliance devices to new networks? I was pointed to LG's SmartThinQ sensor. This was mentioned this past September in CNet: " ....
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The Hacking of the Internet of Things
In Wired: An overview of how the Internet of Things is being hacked. Bottom line, it is being hacked in many places." ... And this year has made clearer than...
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A Look at last Years HPC Conference
In the CACM: I used to cover High Performance Computing (HPC), topics for the enterprise. Now the topic has seemed to be overtaken by volume rather than performance...
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