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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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Getting the Most from your Online Ad Money
In K@W: Reconsidering the 'last touch'." ... Advertisers often use multiple publishers for their online campaigns, but may not use the best metrics to decide which...
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Resilience Power for the Enterprise
Via MIT Sloan. Very good talk today by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, on using resilience in the supply...
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Knowing what You Want before You do
In the WSJ: And the implications for virtual assistants. Is this also a way to do product development? Almost by definition.Apple and Google Know What You...
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Facebook's Moneypenny to Provide Help
I was sent a query about Moneypenny last week, suggesting it was Facebook's entry into the virtual assistant fray, but it seems it will be more of a system to direct...
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Advertising IDs and Tracking in Windows 10
Quite a remarkable review of tracking capabilities in my update to Windows 10. Did you know you now have your personal ad ID? Covering privacy issues in Windows...
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Trying Again in the Metaverse
If has been quite a long time since I heard the term Metaverse. Yet I attended the building of a huge IBM Second Life complex as a representative of our enterprise...
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Training Computers to See Medical Imagery
In A Smarter Planet. This raises a question we often addressed. At what level should human expertise be inserted into a system like this? Or should we push...
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Reinventing Marketing
In the Cisco Blog:Our customers’ expectations and buying behaviors are changing, and more brands compete for their attention. We either need to reinvent our approach...
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AI Powered Assistants
If you have followed this blog, I have been covering the various forms and approaches of the virtual assistant for some time. Click tag below for much moreA.I....
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Business Value of User Experience
Good piece in K@W, sponsored by SAP. We have developed some very big expectations regarding user experience. The expectation includes having instantaneous and...
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Book on Amazon Echo Programming
Announced today: Programming the Amazon Echo, by Joseph Jaquinta. Technical, yet to be completely edited, can't vouch for it, but only 99 cents on Kindle. Can...
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Current State and Future of Augmented Reality
Short overview in ClickZ. A list of current developments in AR. It still has mainly narrow applications rather than broad interfaces. But note also events...
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Turing Test for Creative Intelligence
How can we determine a machine or system is more than just intelligent, but also creative? A place for a Turing test.
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GE's Industrial Internet
In SiliconAngle:General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often...
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PLM and Internet of Things
Interesting area of application.Read what CIMdata's President Peter Bilello has to say about PLM, the IoT, and metalworking equipment innovation in the July/Aug...
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First 3D Printed Prescriptions
An unusual example of 3D printing" ... First 3-D printed prescription drug to be made in Blue Ash, Ohio ... The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first...
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Communicating Robots
Note has some similarity to swarm robotics But here the individuals are likely to be more specialized. Collaborating, But need for central management? n...
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Tour Style VR at British Museum
From the BBC: " ... British Museum offers virtual reality tour of Bronze Age ... The British Museum is running a trial of virtual reality technology with a view...
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Need for Industrialized Analytics
Good thoughts by Tom Davenport. We did this to a degree at Procter & Gamble since the 70s, by creating a strong industrial competency, but we also had a longImplications...
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