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More Google Micro Moments
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Google Micro Moments

Continue to be interested in how tasks are done as part of a larger job.  How about Mid task corrections?   ThinkWithGoogle writes:  " ...  91% of Smartphone users...

Reputation is Our Most Important Asset
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reputation is Our Most Important Asset

Have been involve in several investigations lately that have born this out.  K@W article that discusses the elements of reputation.   A personal exploration here...

Cross Screen Addressability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cross Screen Addressability

Often talked about in the industry, now here.AT&T Tests Cross-Screen Addressable AdsMarketers Can Reach Same Consumer on TV and Mobile DevicesThrough a partnership...

Your Brain Making Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Brain Making Decisions

In Knowledge@Wharton: Brains on decision making, how do they influence what we do and how we do it.   See also the recent videos by David Eagleman in tag below....

More on the NYT's VR
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on the NYT's VR

More details of the apparent success of this test.  Also about some of the production differences required for producing VR content.   How do you get advertisers...

Thinking Humans in the Computing Loop
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Humans in the Computing Loop

An idea we played with for years.   Why not integrate humans deeply into processes that need judgement and intelligence?   Even if only temporarily until we figure...

Smart Machines Evolving with us
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Machines Evolving with us

Interesting thoughtful piece suggesting that our intelligence is co-evolving with AI.  As a practical student of the emergence of AI,  I agree that it is harder...

How IOT is already being Used
From The Eponymous Pickle

How IOT is already being Used

Fairly obvious, but it is worth reviewing, with statistics.  In the HBR:   " .... We did an open-source analysis of IoT user behavior, looking at 1,000 IoT technology...

Death of Gene Amdahl, IBM Architect and then Competitor
From The Eponymous Pickle

Death of Gene Amdahl, IBM Architect and then Competitor

Our enterprise was one of the first users of his competitive mainframe environment, when there was little large scale competition.  Was interesting to see the background...

Tailored Analytics:  Wolfram Financial Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tailored Analytics: Wolfram Financial Platform

More movement towards tailored analytics.  Here the Wolfram Financial Platform.  Obvious inclusion of methods like time series analysis.  Consider tailored tools...

Swarms of Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarms of Drones

Swarms have been covered here a number of times.   Some additional applications immediately come to mind beyond warehouse inventory.   Being tested now.

Games and Cognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Games and Cognition

Simon Ellis, a PhD student from RPI, presented "Aleph, A Cognitive Game-playing System for Tabletop Games."     Slides.   With comparison to Watson.Please findhttp...

SailFish Exchange for Data Curation
From The Eponymous Pickle

SailFish Exchange for Data Curation

A clever idea.  A Pinterest for data.  Approach to data democratization.   From Booz Allen Hamilton  .Sailfish™ ExchangeSocially Charged Data CurationSailfish Exchange...

Innovation and Risk in Private Label
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Risk in Private Label

My own observation is that there has been considerable innovation in private label.   It does make sense that it would be first used for the low hanging fruit of...

Switching Technology Stacks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Switching Technology Stacks

In DSC: This often occurs in the modern analysis world, we have to switch among data and methodology stacks, while balancing cognitive load.   Which is why automating...

GE Seeks Internet of Things Dominance
From The Eponymous Pickle

GE Seeks Internet of Things Dominance

In Forbes: GE To Take On IBM In The Race For IOT Dominance  by Theo Priestley , General Electric announced yesterday the creation of a new unit with the aim to...

BlockChains in Azure
From The Eponymous Pickle

BlockChains in Azure

My interest here is in smart contracts.  Blockchains as a service, now by Microsoft in Azure. Can these self adapt to their regulatory environment?   Warn us when...

Service Competency
From The Eponymous Pickle

Service Competency

ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker today was Dawn M. Rennick, Consultant/Program Manager at Wells Fargo.Title of the presentation :  Moving the High Tech Industry...

API's for Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

API's for Machine Learning

An overview of a number of APIs for machine learning in Kdnuggets.  Also a look at the challenges involved for using this approach.  High level overviews of API's...

Report on the NYT Virtual Reality App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Report on the NYT Virtual Reality App

Had my doubts about this.  But is a new kind of photo journalism and means to tell a story.  Is product placement next?  How do you determine the place for VR casts...
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