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Machine Learning Goes Mainstream
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Goes Mainstream

In Forbes:  Machine learning being used in our information technology environments, here a good example.  Also pointer to an academic paper on the depth of 'understanding'...

Internet of Things from a Consumer Perspective
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Things from a Consumer Perspective

In Retailwire, from the Oracle Blog:  " ... To take advantage of new data sources from sensors and machines emerging from the Internet of Things, it helps to consider...

February Analytics Mag Emphasis on Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

February Analytics Mag Emphasis on Data Visualization

February 2015 Informs monthly on analytics, the leading professional organization for analytics practice.  The most practical and largely non technical periodical...

Stanford DeepDive
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stanford DeepDive

Brought to my attention.  Another example of the automation of analytics." .... DeepDive is a new type of system that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper...

Jobs Susceptible to Computerization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jobs Susceptible to Computerization

Working on a related problem.  What jobs or part of jobs are likely to be replaced vs augmented?  What is the influence of Cognitive methods?The Future of Employment...

Google Challenges Deodorant
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Challenges Deodorant

CPG, beware of Google competition.  Wearable removes odors?  Patents the idea anyway.  At first this sounded like it was a very clever sensor idea, with electronic...

Trusting Machines vs People
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trusting Machines vs People

A long time interest.  To what degree do people trust machines?  Our early look at automated marketing engines gave a different view.  Here in Knowledee@Wharton...

Frugal Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Frugal Innovation

Frugal Innovation,  by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu, The Economist, Book brought to my attention.  Today we have many more resources than ever before. Via IdeaConnection...

A  Phase Advisor for Industrial Chemical Engineering
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Phase Advisor for Industrial Chemical Engineering

A recent conversation with a chemical engineer at MIT led me to remember an expert system a member of our AI group, Dan T. Davis wrote in the late 1980s.  It was...

Strategists Guide to IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Strategists Guide to IOT

A Strategist’s Guide to the Internet of Things ... The digital interconnection of billions of devices is today’s most dynamic business opportunity. ... " ... The...

Product Development with Virtual Prototypes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Product Development with Virtual Prototypes

In February IEEE Computing Now:Product Development with Virtual PrototypesDouglass Post discusses how the use of virtual prototypes analyzed with physics-based...

Anticipating Apple's Smart Home
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anticipating Apple's Smart Home

My enterprise was one of the pioneers to create a smart home that could be rapidly modified to test new technology configurations.  It was also unique in that it...

Goals of Predictive Analytics Models
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Goals of Predictive Analytics Models

When I read the title of this article it said 'types' of predictive analytics models, which lead me to believe it was the kind of technical model.  But no, its...

Business Process Models meet Watson
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Process Models meet Watson

Have for a long time thought about the natural connections between Business Process Modeling (BPM) and the augmentation of jobs and sub tasks using Cognitive systems...

Robots and AI at an Inflection Point
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robots and AI at an Inflection Point

At PARC Forum:   Steve Omohundro's talk:  On AI and Robotics at an inflection point.  Distruptive technologies.  Very nice look at the current status of both technologies...

Crash Course in Statistics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crash Course in Statistics

For Machine learning.   Not enough certainly, but some good points made.  With today's online resources, you don't need a room full of statisticians, just some...

Supply Chain Visibility and RFID
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Supply Chain Visibility and RFID

Sure visibility is increased, but then how does that provide value?  Primarily by combining the information with other data, and then using analytics to feed key...

iPhone Security
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iPhone Security

In Wired: Considering the security of the iPhone.  (From  September 18)  A reminder to iPhone owners cheering Apple’s latest privacy win: Just because Apple will...

Choremonster Meets Disney
From The Eponymous Pickle

Choremonster Meets Disney

I see that colleague and long time connect Chris Bergman has been out in LA to meet with Disney to talk about his gamification startup Choremonster.   What a natural...

Integrating Smart Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Integrating Smart Devices

In CWorld: Testing Hubs, a case and physical study:" .. Testing the Internet of Things: Can smart devices be united into an integrated whole?We try out the Revolv...
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