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The Scale of Telco Data Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Scale of Telco Data Services

I find this obvious, but the numbers are interesting.   " ... The $24 Billion Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About  ... Mobile Carriers Are Working...

More on Google's D-Wave Quantum Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Google's D-Wave Quantum Machine

Lots of implications for doing things like AI and machine learning faster.   But also breaking encryption codes faster?   Good, extensive,  non technical pieceIn...

Watson for Social Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson for Social Media

Another example of focused Watson application ...Get accurate social media insights with Watson Analytics for Social MediaWatch this video for a deeper dive into...

Watson Assistants in a Watch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Assistants in a Watch

The IBM/Apple connection first was positioned as one to enhance the enterprise.  Now a look at the consumer side.IBM and Apple can put Watson's A.I. insights inside...

Combining Multiple Scoring Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Combining Multiple Scoring Systems

Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series call this week, on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 10:30 am ET (7:30 am PT).  Our presenter on Thursday is Professor...

Automation Driving Retail Growth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automation Driving Retail Growth

Statistics on retail growth.  Advanced automation replacing in store and back end knowledge workers too.   Relates to think tank examination we did this week.  Voice...

Neuroscientists and the Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuroscientists and the Brain

Contrarian view that is of interest.  We do know much less than we claim we know about the brain. We do know it is complex and deep.  We often try to adapt our...

Celebrating Failures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Celebrating Failures

From Knowledge@Wharton:  AARThe digital transformation of a company requires not a mere shuffling of the organizational chart, but rather a “chemical” change in...

Brain Inspired Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Inspired Computing

Technical.  From IBM Almaden Research center.   Dharmendra S Modha's Brain-inspired Computing Blog  ....  SyNAPSE: Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable...

A VC Perspective for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A VC Perspective for AI

Everyone has been now been alerted to the re-emergence of AI.  But everyone still wants to know: What are the needs in our or our clients context that can now be...

Watson IOT Research Center formed by IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson IOT Research Center formed by IBM

A good direction to go with applications of Watson.   Considerable opportunity here.IBM Bets on Watson With Global Research Center in GermanyThe Internet of Things...

Buyer Decisions Not Journeys
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buyer Decisions Not Journeys

I liked Journeys better, but ...In CustomerThink:" ... When marketing and sales leaders often think about how buyers make decisions, they are viewed through a prism...

Wolfram Programming Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Programming Lab

I see that Wolfram has started this Beta.   Famously they created AI advisory system Wolfram Alpha, now part of Siri.  Start for free ....  Nicely done" ... .Knowledge...

Evolution of Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evolution of Storytelling

 Beyond blogging,  hypertext links, technology.  How has this changed storytelling?  From my viewpoint it has made it easier to digress, but not much different....

Predicting Others Preferences
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Others Preferences

In HBS.    A classic element of market research.  Consider the analytic implications.  This is  a  Meta study:  Abstract: " ... Consumers readily indicate liking...

Storybooks and Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storybooks and Data

Linking expert storybooks to data. Storytelling. It comes to mind that one way you could do an advisory system is to match to the 'right' storybook. Some kind of...

How Microsoft Supports a Future with Countless Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Microsoft Supports a Future with Countless Devices

In the NYT.      " .... Technology now allows for lots of powerful, compelling computing devices in a wide range of sizes and shapes. Just about everyone in the...

Speed in Mobile Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speed in Mobile Experience

In ThinkwithGoogle:  Google is continuing to provide some interesting snippets of data from their research about how people shop. Here another about how quickly...

An Algebra of Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Algebra of Data

Had not heard of this,  or yet understand it.  But most data you mine in realistic domains does not have exact values, so isn't this more about data fuzzy logic...

Smart Contracts and Block Chains
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Contracts and Block Chains

Continue to follow the concept and application of smart contracts.  In O'Reilly, here a simple but very real case: Deutsche Bank joins the blockchain gangDeutsche...
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