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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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Shell Oil Using Analytics
How Shell Uses Analytics To Drive Business Success By Bernard Marr in DSCThe oil and gas industries are facing major challenges - the costs of extraction are rising...
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Philosopher looks at AI
Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Our Own?In Sciam: A philosopher worries about computers’ ever accelerating abilities to outpace human skills Sums it up quite...
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Practical Bayesianism
This was hotly debated in a stat course way back when. Latter part of this post is very technical, but the introduction is useful regardless. Practical view...
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Product Lifecycle Management Industry Newsletter
I won't always pass these along, but just had to refer to the September PLM Industry Newsletter. Interesting topics are covered in an capability we used in the...
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IBM Acquires Strongloop for Digital Transformations
What is unclear here is how closely the processes in the enterprise are being modeled as part of such an effort. Had always thought such modeling would be the...
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CEO's Who Return. Seeking the Triumphant
In the New Yorker, featuring CEO A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble. A common discussion these days in former employee groups." ... How could someone who, according...
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Apple Store designed by Apple Designer
In Nextweb: First Apple retail store designed by Jony Ive shows a future retail direction. This looks a bit stark and colorless. Is this the future of physical...
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Mapmaking Tool
Maps are a favorite obsession. A new way to make and play with them. You can start free. Mapbox is nicely described in Wired. " .... New web-based software...
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Interruption Still Works
In Adage:Forget Disruption, Just Get Better at Interruption" ... 'Pull' advertising is fine and all, but if you want to actually sell something, get better at your...
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More Amazon Dash
Is Amazon Dash a part of the IOT? Just one small connection between ordering people and the system. A sensor to determine lack of a product. But consider also...
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Managing Improvement Knowledge with Concept Maps
Colleague Brian Moon reports an update in Perigean Technologies capabilities statement. They use concept mapping among other methods, to accelerate improvement...
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Smarter Roomba for the Home
We followed iRobot's work for years, since we were fundamentally interested in how consumers did housework, and if we could participate in that journey. Could...
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Machine Learning to Automate Clinical Pathways
Professor David Sontag from NYU, presented "Using Machine Learning to Automate Clinical Pathways." Very interesting and seemingly very practical effort. ...
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Cognitive Compass for Neurodiversity
Just had some conversations with Madelaine Sayko, of Cogntive Compass, who is exploring some of the same problems we did in the enterprise. Nice direction" ....
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A View of the Future via Cisco
What future do you see? by Rowan Trollope .... " ... I see a bright future where technology makes the world a better place, particularly when it comes to the way...
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Algorithm Economy for Data Analytics
Interesting thoughts, At the end of the day an algorithm is a way to concisely encode a better decision process, it needs to come from some analytical method based...
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Trend of Embedding Beacons in Physical Architectures
Mention in O'Reilly conference today. That we are starting to see beacons embedded into building fixtures like lights and power sockets. Also in wearables....
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Beacosystems: Beacons and their Architectures
Now in progress .... and will likely write about, interesting thoughts in the invite, thought I would pass along. Beacosystem? Not sure that term will prevail...
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Social Needs a Dislike Button?
Wired does a good job of looking at the topic. I wonder how the button will influence any resulting analytics, Will it get more people to react at all, within...
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