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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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How Companies Pursue Innovation
Favorite topic, but not my favorite format. A slide show about approaches to innovation with some interesting thoughts. I was struck by: " ... Partnering Effort...
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IBM Bluemix Local
Just announced, I have been a subscriber to Watson on Bluemix for some time, for access to their growing list of Watson services. Also check out the blog linkIntroducing...
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Learning from Military Teams
We used methods like After Action Reviews (AAR), but there is much more to utilize. An interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal: " .... Many companies lack an overarching...
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Skype Real Time Translation
Rumored for some time. And like all translation, variant in context, and never quite perfect. " .... Microsoft’s impressive Skype real-time translator has finally...
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How Much Data is There?
A very telling piece in Tech Crunch .... reminded me of many cases I had seen long before the BD term was in use. Much more often they relatively little clean,...
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Columbia University MS in Applied Analytics
Kaiser Fung reports on the Columbia University Master of Science Program in Applied Analytics being established. Their new site.
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Facebook and AI, Learning in Assistants
In the BBC:" ... Prof Yann LeCun is a hugely influential force in the field of Deep Learning and is now director of AI research at Facebook ..." .... What we are...
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Power BI Adds Features
Continued improvements in MS Power BI. Good value so far.44 New Features in the Power BI Desktop September Update Check this massive update to our product, with...
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Why we Work
In Knowledge@Wharton:The Real Reasons We WorkIn the new book Why We Work, Swarthmore professor Barry Schwartz challenges the assumption that people primarily work...
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GE and the Internet
GE as a 'heavy industry' and how it uses analytics and the Internet. How it utilizes the value of the industrial internet. Some good examples of how it leverages...
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Sifting Your Big Ideas
Colleague Bob Herbold from his blog: " ..... Is Your Big Idea Really Big? Really? .... Beware, when searching for the big idea and finding that to be difficult...
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Google Docs Dictate and Translate
In Time: Google Docs is said to now have both voice to text dictation, and translation to over 40 languages. Together these are quite an interesting combination...
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Unintended Consequence Algorithms
This is not uncommon. And things are getting more and more complex. Many more variables. Black boxes are out there. But be ready to explain how your box works...
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Generation Z is Coming
I am not a fan of generational labels. I have seen too much variance within them to trust them much. But still, you have to know the definitions to follow what...
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Watson Personality Insights for Shoppers
A demonstration of Watson's personality services capability for shopping. " ... The Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract aYou...
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Low Cost 3D Printing Driving Massive Sales
In CWorld: Apparently many people think they need 3D printing. Have seen the store demos, saw it used in the enterprise for packaging prototype development....
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Data Lakes and Accuracy
Silicon Angle discusses a side effect of the concept of data lakes. Governance is easier to apply." ..... Progressing into the “total customer experience,” one...
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Smarter Automotive Systems
Very good overview piece in the CACM, as I see more automotive examples, this is the crux of it, at least before we go self-driving. " .... "There is a huge challenge...
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Watson and Creativity
Upcoming talk of particular interest: Thu Oct 1, 2015, 10:30am – 11am (EDT) " .... Our scheduled speaker is Bryan Wiltgen from Georgia Tech, who will be presenting...
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