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Windows at 30 and our first Interaction
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Windows at 30 and our first Interaction

Mashable piece on the history of Windows.    Back then, a small group of us from the enterprise flew out to Redmond to see a demo of Windows 1.    Bill Gates, all...

How Hard is it to Build A Cognitive Assistant?
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How Hard is it to Build A Cognitive Assistant?

Jim Spohrer, Director, Global University Programs at IBM, co traveler on the issue of how to build and benefit from AI with cognitive methods, poses these questions...

Difficulty of Persuasion
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Difficulty of Persuasion

Seth Godin on the difficulty of persuasion.  This is a really fundamental thing in all of business. Stories and targeting worldviews.

Voice to Text Using Siri
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Voice to Text Using Siri

On voice to text using Siri, just examined." .... Beause people like leaving voicemails but don't like listening to them, Apple is reportedly looking at using its...

Germany and Digital
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Germany and Digital

In the Economist: " .... Does Deutschland do digital? ... Europe’s biggest economy is rightly worried that digitisation is a threat to its industrial leadership...

Analytics for Innovation
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Analytics for Innovation

Via former colleague Julie Anixter:Kobi Gershoni great piece on why Product Developers need to read the external signals  .... " ... How can you use big data to...

Theory vs Practice of Data Science
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Theory vs Practice of Data Science

  After a long time of practicing what we called 'analytics',  I  have just, for the first time taken an engagement that includes the term 'data scientist'.  So...

Getting to Wow in Sales
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Getting to Wow in Sales

In K@W: An old article that still makes an excellent point.  Its more than just about the retail price.

Searching and Shopping with Images
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Searching and Shopping with Images

Image recognition, manipulation and delivery.  Have yet to see this very useful in shopping.  Practical example uses exist in enterprise knowledge interaction.AI...

Raising Digital Quotient
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Raising Digital Quotient

From McKinsey: " .... With the pace of change in the world accelerating around us, it can be hard to remember that the digital revolution is still in its earlyFor...

Extracting Value from Big Data
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Extracting Value from Big Data

Really a subset of how you extract value from any data.  Both the data you have and the data you can acquire from public or acquire or commission.  A goal directed...

First Brain MRI, 30 Years Ago
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First Brain MRI, 30 Years Ago

Heady Times: This Scientist Took The First Brain Selfie And Helped Revolutionize Medical ImagingEarly one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck...

Detecting Emotion in Computing
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Detecting Emotion in Computing

From the BBC:   Reminds me of work done to understand how people react to product.   And a new kind of connection in an internet of things?" ... That is the project...

Neosensory
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Neosensory

What company intends to create new senses for the Umwelt using the principle of sensory substitution via a sonic vest?   Neosensory   See tags below for more.

Microsoft Believes Data Science will become Tailored, Automated.
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Microsoft Believes Data Science will become Tailored, Automated.

More on the topic of automating data science.  Utilizing cognitive and AI advisory functions that are intelligent.   Agree, but there will continue to be need for...

Watson Based Trend App
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Watson Based Trend App

In Datanami: An app for the holidays that tracks consumer trends. " ... The app seeks to create another consumer use case for the Watson cognitive technology platform...

Regulation and Liability of Cognitive Machines
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Regulation and Liability of Cognitive Machines

" ... Our Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series call this week,   on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 10:30 am ET (7:30 am PT).  Our presenter on Thursday...

IEEE Technical History Online Promotes Understanding
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IEEE Technical History Online Promotes Understanding

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) now has an online history section.  What I like about IEEE is that they often cover the intersection...

Applying IOT to Agriculture
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Applying IOT to Agriculture

In CWorld: Not a new thing.  But the ability to integrate streams of real time data from agriculture is of interest.   And integrating it with external weather...

Understanding Data Streams
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Understanding Data Streams

Good straightforward piece from the SAS Institute.  You may have to register.Understanding Data Streams in IoTThe large array of connected devices, often referred...
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