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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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Kaizen Meets Hitachi AI for Workflow Productivity
Via Conor Cusack: Quite an interesting application direction:Hitachi puts AI Boss in Charge to Boost Productivity By David Nield Forget about robots taking over...
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Autonomous Drones Build Bridge
In the Verge: Video. Fascinating example. Particularly interested in the autonomy of such experiments, which relates to other swarming experiments. The future...
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Bloomberg Marketing Analytics Tool
In Adage: Interesting play. I do wonder about the overall objectivity that is involved. But a directed marketing mix play is intriguing. Dueling tools among...
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Potential of Virtual Reality
Insightful piece, In ReadwriteWeb: " .... Virtual Reality Meets Actual Reality: Why VR Is Harder Than You Think .... HTC, Sony and Felix and Paul Studios discuss...
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ACM E-Book Learning Center
I was reminded that the ACM, which I have been a member of for many years, has a learning center that contains hundreds of free to read e-books for members. Always...
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Walgreens to Promote Behavior with Wearables
In Evan Schuman's column in Computer World. Contains an interesting detailed analysis of behavior." ... Walgreens wants to use wearables to give instant discounts...
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Junk Charts: Data Visualizations Reviewed
Recently connected with Kaiser Fung, Who writes the famous Junk Charts Blog that I have often mentioned here. I had read about bad visualizing years ago in books...
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Eyeliner Connecting to the Internet
In SiliconAngle: " ... When eyeliner connects to the Internet: L’Oreal hints at IoT plans ... " An unusual connection to the Internet of Things. How broadly...
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Glasses Foil Facial Recognition
In the CACM: We discovered this in a retail test. Here much more detail and data. Reminds me of other cases in the 70s where it was discovered that putting...
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Cisco's New Headquarters
In our innovation collaboration with Cisco we visited their HQ many times. It has now been rebuilt. Much more about their facility. " ... I want Cisco to be...
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Designing for All Senses
In FastcoDesign:" .. Our perceptions of the world are built on multiple senses. They interact to help us make sense of our surroundings, so a car will seem to be...
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Eye Tracking Study of Product Similarity on Brand Location and Recognition.
Of retail interest from a recent conference: " ... Para-Sight: A visual search study into the effects of product similarity on brand location and recognition. ...
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Quantum Physics and Decision Making
A very broad metaphor based on famous quantum thought experiments. But still an intriguing idea. Pointers to some related work by Kahneman and others. "...
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Tablets and Kids
Quite a long piece in Ars Technica on research regarding the value of early childhood experience with tablets. I am still old school. Books, laptops, visual...
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MedRespond Simulating Dialog
Simulation of dialog is interesting .... " .... We combine artificial intelligence, search and streaming media to create communication programs that simulate personal...
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On the Mess of Unstructured Analytics
Dealing with the mess. Agree that this should not be. But we have more different kinds of unstructured data today than we ever had. In face we dealt with it"...
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Working on the Edge of the Internet of Things
Heard 'the edge' being used more recently. And now we can architect what we want there and how it communicates. Set standards that will be useful in many contexts...
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Data Science Glossary
Data Science Glossary. Not a bad idea in an area you are new to, or even not that new to, as new ideas arrive. Am about to look at some of the definitions. My...
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More Assistants: IPSoft, Amelia and AI
Chetan Dube - CEO and president, IPsoft" ... For Chetan Dube, the dream of true artificial intelligence—a machine or program that does not simply regurgitate data...
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