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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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Storytelling Lessons
Good piece I happened on:In this 7-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth, you’ll discover:How to think staggeringly simpleHow to attract attention...
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Clara Schedules Meetings for You
Another example of AI assistance. Via Jim Spohrer. The improvement of Email and communications is a huge opportunity.If You CC This Robot, It Will Schedule Meetings...
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Uber, Big Data and a Process Controlling Things
How Uber uses Spark and Hadoop. Good useful piece in Datanami. instructive as to what is possible, with a well understood business process plan. Good example...
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Reshaping the Workspace With AI
Liked this TechCrunch piece because it addresses workspace and workflow in ways that AI claims usually do not. Not only 'What' will be done with cognitive, but...
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Wal-Mart and Game Based Training
Wal-Mart using game based training, Note the embedding and short format. Warehouses are a good place to start, often have a safety problem. " ... Warehouses...
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Photoship Fix
Reported in Verge. Most of the commonly used capabilities in Photoshop are now free with Photoshop Fix. I had a corporate account for years, but when leaving...
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3D Printed Glass
3D Printed glass, first I had head of ths group at MIT" .... Humans have been making glass in various forms for thousands of years, from glassblowing techniques...
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An Iconic Brand Turns 50
Gatorade was my earliest exposure to the iconic brand. Unexpectedly I ended up at an enterprise that held many such classic brands. How do you create iconic magic...
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Clinical Machine Learning at NYU
Examining more Closely. Via Principal Investigator David Sontag at NYU: Clinical machine learningOur group is particularly interested in machine learning problems...
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Creating Computing Superheroes
Most interesting view of computing history. Examining Walter Isaacson's The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution...
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Virtual Coffee Plantation
Use of VR to market an underlying industry, here coffee growing by Nescafe. A simple VR method is used: Cardboard VR, with the assistance of Google. To explain...
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How do People React to Concept Maps?
By colleague Rick Schafermeyer of Yourencore. In particular how well do concept maps work when you share them with users that have built or used them your selves...
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Considering AI Today vs AI Yesterday
Good piece, I basically agree. AI methods have largely stayed the same, certainly with some technical improvements, but have improved in application considerably...
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Addressing Customer Showrooming
In K@W: Good piece includes some useful statistics that address customer in-store behavior when they are looking for information " .... It’s obvious that customers...
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Siri and Wolfram Alpha
In the early days of Wolfram Alpha we looked at it for potential manipulation of internal data. It now has been accessible via Siri for a while, but I admit I...
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Amazon Developer Community Blog
I have been asked to follow developments in places like Amazon Dash, Amazon Echo and AWS for retail. One way to do this is to follow their developer community....
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Creating Value
Clearly. But how to make sure you are doing it effectively is not usually obvious.Why Value Creation is the Foundation of Business: How to define it, measure it...
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Kroger Tests Smart Shelves
We experimented with a number of related methods, combining, visual, sensory, sensing, locating, effecting capabilities, linked to many kinds of data and analytics...
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Windows Dev Center for the IOT
Useful set of resources for the Windows directed IOT. Hardware, software and information for getting started.
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