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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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CIO vs an IT Services Supermarket
Don Tapscott on the continued need for a CIO in industry. Interesting thoughts, but by the same reasoning why do we need any executive leaders? A CIO should be...
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How Does Word of Mouth Drive Sales?
In Retailwire: A favorite concept that we modeled in depth a number of times. It also merits further direct lab and online testing. Still believe there are opportunities...
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Print Thyself
In the New Yorker. How 3D Printing is revolutionizing medicine. Good non-technical article on the topic. Possibilities and limitations. Via Walter Riker" ....
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Fidelity Labs Develops StockCity
Have examined a number of methods that use realistic spaces to represent abstract data. Never found these methods that useful beyond attracting curiosity. ...
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Foresight Institute's Feynman Prize
Nobel Prize winning Physicist Richard Feynman is known for having issued the challenge that has inspired nanotechnology research for years. See his talk: There...
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Text Mining using R
In BiCorner: An introduction to text mining using R. Nicely done. Motivation for using text mining and some simple examples.
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Stanford Building Stories from Pictures
This was a sub problem solution we needed for an expert system that worked with archives of advertising copy. Later I worked with a startup that aimed to classify...
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Changes in Word Meanings as Context
A challenge for delivering intelligence as implemented in ontologies. Which we discovered quickly when implementing knowledge provided by advertising equities....
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Big Data Delusions and Assumption Fever
I like push backs, especially on very complex, big investments. Be aware of the big assumptions that are included. Does not mean the concepts are not useful...
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Games are for Learning
On Games and learning. The idea has been around for a long time, but have seen relatively few really good examples of success. Our own successes stemmed from"...
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On What the Eye is Prepared to See
Was taken by this Smithsonian article on unexpected events on dunes in Michigan. " ... a quote from the French philosopher Henri Bergson: “The eye sees only....
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Leadership vs Fellowship and Data Value
In Future of CIO: Interesting points. Clearly different roles. Have they been moving closer together? How does technology influence this? Today, more than ever...
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Netflix Technology
Interesting GigaOm piece on Netflix use of technology, especially the relationship between recommender technology and content. I am a fairly recent user of Netflix...
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Refresher on Net Present Value
Something I learned long ago. But we can use a revisit of basic economics. Nicely presented in the HBR." ... Most people know that money you have in hand now...
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Tesla CIO and IT
How does a new car company deal with the challenge of evolving IT? A CIO at the leading edge discusses.
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Modeling Movement of Crowds
In Nature: We looked at this kind of research for retail behavior insight.Mathematical time law governs crowd flowPedestrians avoid bumping into each other byWalking...
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Tesco Clubcard and Twitter
Like to see new ideas for using the loyalty engagement. A somewhat novel one here." ... Tesco Clubcard has partnered with We Are Social to create holiday gift guides...
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Automating Business Process
In CIO Insight: Ultimately managing and automating your process is key to being efficient. In labor, speed, scale, value and beyond. Analytics can show the way...
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Credit for Multi Channel Sales
A classic problem. In RetailWire:" ... One of the murkier aspects of omni-channel retailing continues to be "revenue attribution." The challenges assessing proper...
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