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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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Amazon Proposes a Flight Plan
Not as much a joke as has been suggested. " ... Following the FAA's recent relaxation of commercial drone flight regulations, Amazon is forging ahead with plans...
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Transforming Higher Education
Correspondent David E Goldberg writes:" ... Transforming higher education is often thought of as simply the introduction and administration of new content, curriculum...
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Gartner on Digitalization
In the Gartner blog, where I was attracted by the word 'digitalization', Don't like carrying the water for another term. But OK if it makes a useful distinction...
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UK Virtual Reality Lab for Transport
In Engadget: Don't quite understand the application, but intriguing. In general we found that VR applications were most useful when they were closely connected...
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Historical Big Data Use Case
I like the fact that this includes considerable historical data. Consider the opportunities. From Pete Ianace:" ... This is a great use case that describes the...
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Executive Guide to Machine Learning
In McKinsey: An executive’s guide to machine learningIt’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon,...
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Cities and the Power of Integration
In Cisco: On the Smart City, how things will be connected, architect ed, and analyics leveraged to make cities work efficiently. At the end of the day it is still...
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Microsoft and the Internet of Things
How will the IOT effect the operating system of the past? Simplifyingbecause parts of the OS can be in the cloud? Or make them much more complex? .How will search...
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Prevedere Software uses Leading Indicators
Brought to my attention: " ... Prevedére, Inc. is a Big Data Predictive Analytics solution that helps companies increase profits and outperform competition. Our...
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Self Checkout Psychology
Evan Schuman on Self-checkout psychology: Don't scare away shoppers Good, new information. We worked on an analysis of this and related technologies for some"...
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Investing in Deep Learning
In Virgin Entrepreneur. Short description of the concept. Not sure I agree that most companies should invest in this narrow kind of technology, important...
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Self Driving Trucks this Year
From the BBC: On German roads this year? Supply chain efficiency changes are considerable. " .. Autonomous trucks: Daimler seeks licence for road tests ... "
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Consistent Experiences across Devices
Important goal. Not too often the case. " ... Walgreens' responsive website is part of the retailer's digital strategy that allows it to offer shoppers a consistent...
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Evernote on Euro Data Laws
Evernote CEO comments on euro data laws. Complexity of regional regulations continues to add complexity to a data rich world.
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Telling Good Data from Bad
From Forbes. Hardly complete, but a reasonable starting point. Which can be mostly summarized as: Understand your sources, ask for certification when available...
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Thinking about Attentive Analytics
In a lunch time conversation last week the concept of an 'attentive' system emerged. You can make many systems, analytic or otherwise, alert people to conditions...
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Intel is Fixing the Cloud
In CWorld: " ... Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the...
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Content Analytics Re-Emerges
This was an approach we called 'Content Analytics' a long time ago, when the data we analyzed came from big spools of tape. I had thought the term had gone away...
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On Pluto and the Nature of Seeing
What does it mean to see in a technological world? A Wired look at visual sensors, using the Pluto flyby as an example. At what, when and how are we seeing things...
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