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Energy Saving Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Energy Saving Game

In Fastcodesign: A way to turn household energy saving into what they call an addictive game.    Called Power House, on Facebook. Mentioned by collaborator Byron...

Building a Simple Word Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building a Simple Word Cloud

A simple word cloud service, data can be retrieved from pasted text, URLs or files.  A number of useful features for quick generation.  Their blog provides some...

SAP IOT Garden
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP IOT Garden

Work and thoughts by SAP on IoT Innovation, in a Garden:" ... Within SAP, IoT has begun taking shape in the form of grassroots projects and pilot implementations...

Brain Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Marketing

In the HBR:  Using the activity of the brain to understand purchasing and marketing decisions.   We called this neuromarketing, but that term is never used in the...

China Boosting Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Boosting Robotics

In CWorld: " ... Already a major manufacturer of electronics, China is preparing to bolster its presence in robotics with the help of government support and investments...

Stanford High Rise Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stanford High Rise Chip

In CWorld: New three dimensional design.  Potential for IoT and Big Data applications." ... Stanford University researchers have built a multi-layered "high-rise"...

How to Fly a Horse
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Fly a Horse

Colleague Kevin Ashton writes:Dear Franz, My new book, "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Invention, Creation, and Discovery," comes out on January 20....

Measuring Content Metrics:  All About the Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Content Metrics: All About the Data

In Adage:  On how to measure digital content.  Which relates to the more general aspect of Data Assets.  Which I have repeated here and given a talk about.   It's...

Where do you Start With the Internet of Things?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where do you Start With the Internet of Things?

Good piece on the topic. by James MacLennan.   There is lots of talk everywhere of course, but what do you do to fit his into a business?   We spent years thinking...

Video Analytics and Privacy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Video Analytics and Privacy

An area we examined in laboratory conditions. One approach seen was the automated blurring of faces.  In RetailWire:  Discussion:  " ... While privacy remains a...

Cheap Hack-able Roomba
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cheap Hack-able Roomba

In Mashable: " ... iRobot builds a vacuum-free Roomba for students to hack ... "     This is a successor to the iRobot Create, which we used to experiment with...

An Advisory System
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Advisory System

An interesting example."ALEX the virtual benefits counselor is America’s best-selling and most-trusted standalone benefits decision support tool. Used by hundreds...

Open Source Projects for Machine Intelligence
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Open Source Projects for Machine Intelligence

In InfoWorld: Four groups have been developing IBM Watson-like systems based on open source work.  ... Watson wannabes: 4 open source projects for machine intelligence...

More Advances in Mobile Eye Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Advances in Mobile Eye Tracking

An area where we did much work, both on the physical implementation aspects, and on the gathering and analytical methods used with the data.  New developments on...

Find Critical Business Data Fast
From The Eponymous Pickle

Find Critical Business Data Fast

In CWorld:  This was part of our mantra in the enterprise with Business Sphere applications.  " ... These CIOs are jumping on a fast-moving trend — mining small...

Smarter Algorithms
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Smarter Algorithms

In CWorld:  " ... Researchers are working on a new version of an algorithm that will power better search, autonomous cars, smarter smartphones and the Internet  ...

Service Science from Informs
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Service Science from Informs

I have been reminded by Jim Spohrer about the importance of services, tasks and the allied sciences to provide what we call intelligence, artificial or otherwise...

Machine Learning in Python
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Machine Learning in Python

SciKit-Learn: Was given an arrangement of algorithms in Python awhile back for examination and could have used this.   Tutorials, examples and more. " ... OpenBelow...

Don't Forget Point of Sale
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Don't Forget Point of Sale

It is still a very important, vibrant place.  Even understood after I spent all of today shopping online.  In Marketing Mag.    " .... Everyone might going crazy...

Simplification of NoSQL Databases
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Simplification of NoSQL Databases

Nice simple introduction with examples.  The WP defines " ... A NoSQL (often interpreted as Not Only SQL  database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval...
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