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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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Comment Requirements Changed
Due to increasing Spam in comments, you now need to register to post a comment. In addition, as before, all comments are moderated. Historically this blog has...
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The In-Store Internet of Things
In Retailwire: From research by Cisco. We talked to Cisco when the only connective technology was for this was phone and RFID tags. Everything can and will be...
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Google Buys Lift
Late, but of interest. A move in life sciences. " ... Google has acquired Lift Labs, which makes a mechanical spoon for people suffering from tremors, in a move...
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Mobile Shopping Myths from Data Insight
In McKinsey: An instructive look at UK mobile data:" ... Understanding what matters in mobile is increasingly critical as people become ever more wedded to digital...
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Leadership Development in a Changing World
My former enterprise is in the news with speculation about who the next CEO will be. It is still mostly promotion from within there. Candidates mentioned forHBR...
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Microsoft HoloLens Demonstration
Saw a demonstration of Microsoft HoloLens today. An impressive see-through visor that sits on your head and can give you 3-D holographic experiences. Wirelessly...
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Knowledge Discovery with Unsupervised Learning
Fascinating example using Bayesia's graphical methods. I like how the visualization leads to useful implications of the discovery. Easy to follow example with...
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Cognitive Computing Book
Cognitive Computing, A Brief Guide for Game Changers by Peter Fingar, just received. I commented on early versions. They write:" ... This book is a concise...
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New Product Development and Big Data
Below is an collaborative webinar featuring two groups I have done work with. And includes Tom Davenport, who included our analytics efforts at Procter & Gamble...
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When to Analyze Big Data
In Smart Data Collective, by Richard Boire I like the mentions of real time data,and also that we need to look at longitudinal (historical) views to understand...
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Xerox Licenses Thinfilm Labels
Interesting characteristics of this labeling system, with likely applications to Internet of things applications." ... Each label, costing a few pennies, is a plastic...
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Amazon pulls Diaper Brand
This very notable private label introduction has been pulled after six weeks on the market. In GigaOM. They say for redesign. Do expect more examples of private...
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Hyper Relevance in Retail
So what is hyper relevance? And all about dark assets that you are not using. Read about it in the Cisco blog.
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Personality Judgements by Computer
Supporting information for a proposed project:" ... This study compares the accuracy of personality judgment—a ubiquitous and important social-cognitive activity...
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New Mobile Business in the Enterprise
We looked at this topic a dozen years ago in the enterprise. It is not only just about phone calls, but also about how two way, interactive, data rich interactions...
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Pizza Business Insights
In GigaOM: Case study of the use of Splunk for mining business insight by Dominos. Intrigued by the use of this new capability, especially for time domain, real...
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Wearable Data in the Medical Record
In Forbes: Wearables and analytical value. Should they be in the medical record?" ... The great promise of wearables for medicine includes the opportunity for...
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Turning a Boring Task into a Game
A classic reason for gamifying a task. In the news today: The Airport Scanner game shows how you can get millions of people to perform the luggage scanning task...
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Unilever Shares Selfies
In Internet Retailer: Another example of shoppers using their phones to explore the marketing space. It is much done already, but how are the results managed,...
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