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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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NASA Offering Patents to Startups
In ZDNet: To include patents in Robotics and Analytics." ... US space agency NASA is offering startups a license to 15 categories of patented NASA technologies...
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Marketing and Design Thinking
Nicely thought out look at the idea. Embed the consumer.Marketing takeaways from design thinking by Mandeep Grover As marketers, it's easy to get stuck in campaign...
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Google NGram Viewer
While considering some unstructured text analysis the Google Ngram viewer came to mind. The system " .... charts frequencies of any word or short sentence using...
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Terrifying Retail Words
In Gartner Blogs, by Robert Hetu," ... What are the most terrifying words in retail? “There is nothing here to buy”. The speaker of these words was none otherMcMillon...
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Beetle Blocks
Fun idea, application to certain kinds of 3D designs, tunneling, extruding, forming? Reminds me of Turtle progams. It is inspired by MIT Media Lab Scratch.Via...
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Superforecasting and Straight Thinking
In this week's NYT book review, a piece on “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction,” by the psychologist Philip E. Tetlock. I have mentioned the...
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PureMatter Marketing
Newly discovered: PureMatter." ... Since PureMatter was founded in 2002, the world has changed. The economy tanked. Technology exploded. Expectations keep increasing...
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Surge Pricing Examined
Studied this when it became possible to digitally and dynamically price items in store. Of course online it can be done much more easily. Note here it is mostly...
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Dell makes Acquisitions
I remember when we regularly bought Dell PCs, now a change in direction with a big price tag.From Petri KB: Dell’s $67 Billion Acquisition of EMC to be Biggest...
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The Future of the Intelligent Conversational Interface
The virtual assistant with a conversational interface. Some just trading questions and answers via text, but increasingly including a human-like voice. HaveIn...
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MIT CSAIL Feature Set Selection
Another kind of analysis automation. Whereas we might have otherwise used human expertise to choose feature sets. ( Intuition?) I would also ask if this works...
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Wal-Mart Readies a Shopping Assistant
Wal-Mart preps an SMS text based virtual shopping assistant called Simple Text. Based on what I have read it is unclear how much Cognitive technology is beingDiscussion...
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What Should Kodak have Done?
Fascinating piece in Innovation Excellence. In particular because we met with Kodak to talk collaboration in innovation at the time of their long slide. Kodak...
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On the Limitations of 3D Printing
In Fast Company. Prototyping clearly. But then real world scale and precision become a couple of the problems. Interesting case study. " ... Yet Strauser’s...
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Wal-Mart Open Sources Cloud
Walmart decries cloud lock-in, plans to open-source OneOpsWalmart announced that it will open-source the cloud technology it has built up following its acquisition...
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Governance in the Future of the CIO
The Board Leadership & Governance Insight of the “Future of CIO” Governance is like a steering wheel, to ensure the business running in the right direction! ......
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Amazon IOT Strategy, Facing the Consumer
Amazon has been developing some very interesting B to C Internet of Things related offerings, like the Echo and Dash. So their approach will be good to follow....
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Digital Credentials in Pittsburgh
Steel City Credentials: Building the future of credentials in Pittsburgh, by Jason Swanson. Badges too. A kind of low level gamifiction implied? Mapping micro...
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DropBox Paper for Simplicity
In Wired: Dropbox is building a collaboration and work space tool called Paper to let people in small business work together to get things done. In early beta...
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