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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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Digital Assistants in an Age of Flex Labor
There will be fewer full time jobs, and many workers will become independent contractors, like myself. An implication is that advisory systems will be needed...
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New Watson Cognitive AI Ads
In Adage, new Watson Ads shown at the US Tennis Open. Startups that are using Watson technologies. Would be useful to get a solid technical description of how...
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Types of Innovation for the Enterprise
In the Cisco Blog: Reasonable classification. Thinking of categorizing it around four dimensions: Products, Processes, Position and Business Models. Good"...
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Toyota Looks for AI to Empower Driving
An indication of where strong interest in AI is coming from. In Engadget. " ... Toyota teams up with MIT and Stanford for AI research. .... " .... . The carmaker...
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Complex Behaviors from Simple Brains
From Santa Fe Institute. This is often stated as a precept of complexity theory. Though the precise arrangement of hardware, connections and rules is often difficult...
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Magic Mirrors in Retail
Evan Schuman looks at the magic mirror concept. Good thoughts. An idea that we examined and featured at times in the innovation center for cosmetics marketing...
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Forbes on Voice
In Forbes: On voice interpretation. Voice to text. And its use for devices and online. Not everywhere, since we don't always want to be heard. They say: ...
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Netflix and Data Rich Analytics
There is always opportunity for data rich environments.How Data Analytics Is Shaping What You WatchWhen Netflix decided to go into the entertainment-producing business...
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Sony Commercial Drone
In Spectrum IEEE: More on the Sony Commercial Drone. " .... Last month, Sony Mobile announced a partnership with ZMP to build drones. Or rather, “to collaborate...
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MS Volometrix Acquisition: Understanding Organization
Organization analysis via graph analytics is a favorite application, not sure what this uses, but exploring. Microsoft to buy organizational analytics company VoloMetrix...
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How Google Runs the Office
From Knowledge@Wharton: Podcast and edited text. How Google’s Rules Can Work In Your OfficeTake power away from managers. Don’t trust your gut. Be open and transparent...
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Attempting to Define the Enterprise in 2020
Good thoughts. How exactly things like wearables will fit into the enterprise of 2020 is difficult to say. Obvious for specific focused applications, like machine...
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Sanctity of 5 Ws Lost, but Needed
I had read somewhere that because of the internet, Ihe old 5 Ws rule (Who, What, Where, When, Why) in the top sentence or para was no longer being taught. Old...
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Training Robots at PARC
Shiwali Mohan from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), presented "Designing Instructable Cognitive Robots" Slides here.Please find the schedule of presenters here...
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You are the Network
In CWorld: In the future, with increasing use of wearables, you will become the network in a Personal Area Network (PAN).
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Macy's Omni Channel Reorganizes
In Think with Google Talk." ... Macy's found that customers who shop across channels are 8X more valuable than those who shop in a single channel. With today's...
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Looking for Patterns in Sequences or Collections?
Need to find patterns in sequences or collections? Used this long ago, and was reminded about it in a recent piece in Quanta Magazine. Remarkably simple and...
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Amazon Dash Progress
Amazon Dash buttons have become effectively free, and expanded available brands. We have had them in place for a time now. Very easy to install. Have used...
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Pepsi and Design Thinking: Pepsi Spire
From CGT: PepsiCo CEO Turns Design Thinking into StrategyIndra Nooyi, PepsiCo's CEO, is ranked No. 15 on Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women. In an interview...
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