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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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Forecasting the Flu
In the CACM: We did sensor work some time ago that addressed bioterror forecasting. This is related work that leverages social networks. " ... A research team...
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Data and the Internet of Things
In O'Reilly: Big Data and IoT. Data and as we have been seeing, the architecture to support that data. A four dimensional dilemma:" ... The Internet of Things...
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Scarab Sensor Array
I like the idea of having multiple sensors in a device. It would be interesting to see a chart of what is hard to sense effectively, and what the technology obstacles...
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KNext
Jim Spohrer Writes about KNext:Len Schubert (U Rochester) has developed KNEXT http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~schubert/projects/world-knowledge-mining.html -- more...
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Bayesian Plumbing under Uncertainty
Good short piece on the potential for using Bayesian networks to simulate aspecst of the Internet of things (IOT). The open question on many of these kinds of...
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AI Abstraction Methods
Instructive piece on methods in use today:In February IEEE Computing Now:An Anarchy of Methods: Current Trends in How Intelligence Is Abstracted in AI ... How should...
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Cognitive Computing on Film
Another look at the recent Turing film. Some interesting points. Did he invent the computer? Well not the general purpose ones we expect today" ..... The movie...
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Watson Adds Services to Developer Cloud
In SiliconAngle: Notable to me is the speech to text capability. But the added analytics are also good directons. I am in the midst of working with startups"...
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Whats Next for Data Security in Retail?
In Retailwire: " ... According to Boston Retail Partners' 2015 POS/Customer Engagement Benchmarking Survey, payment security ranked among the top three priorities...
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Innovative Cloud Computing
In February IEEE Computing Now:Achieving Dynamic Capabilities with Cloud ComputingHear how senior IT executives are maximizing their organizations’ dynamic adaptability...
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Google Glass Still Alive in the Enterprise
In CIO Mag: Showing that despite all the bad press and ridicule it has its place in focused applications.
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Expert is not Good Enough: Inserting Advice
Professor Wayne Gray of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gave an excellent talk today at the Cognitive Systems Institute Thursday talk series: Expert is not good...
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The New Marketing Golden Age
Long piece, lots of interesting thoughts. I have been involved in many parts of these efforts, not all successful. Though the tech is fictionalized, it did happen...
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CogSketch
Very interesting project. We examined a number of ways to make people more visually creative, including training groups to improve their ability to sketch. Many...
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Beacons and Retail Shelf Labels
We did much work with electronic shelf labels (ESL). See the link below for much more. Quite natural to connect them to the beacon idea as part of retail infrastructure...
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Smart Securing of IOT Device Data
In the CACM: Work is going ahead on security concerns for the Internet of Things. This sounds simple, but I wonder that it won't be easy to unravel" ... The...
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Driverless Cars and Retail
In the News, concept cars designed for a driverless future. In a previous post I pointed to a simulation study that indicated that driverless cars could increase...
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Strap HQ Software and Analytics Platform
Strap. Brought to my attention. A local startup of interest. More to follow. " ... The only platform that goes everywear ... " ...." ... Strap is a software...
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Scaling Kanban
Being agile. " ... It is a misconception that in an agile organization all teams would use agile methods. There are many different methods, teams have to apply...
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