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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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Cognitive Systems Colloquium
Jim Spohrer writes, more at the live blogging link: " ... Today’s Cognitive Systems Colloquium at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., brings together leaders...
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White Noise for the Nose
We spent much time looking at how to deliver aromas Which are difficult to manage in complex spaces. Now some research indicates that you can use the equivalent...
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Service Robots at Lowes
Lowes has always been high on innovation. Now taking a new retail step forward. I like in particular the idea of the robots working collaboratively with liveIn...
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Connected Health Focus
The latest Cisco Focus Magazine is devoted to Connected Health. " .... This month, Focus, Cisco’s monthly online publication, takes a look at the latest Connected...
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A Less Stable Social Media World
Social media leading to a less stable world? In Knowledge@ Wharton: " ... While social media provides myriad benefits, the advances in connectivity and wealth...
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Recomputing Visualizations
Recently did work on the area of laboratory data business intelligence, and this work at MIT came up:" ... In the age of big data, visualization tools are vital...
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Watson Analytics Preps the Data
In InfoWorld: Looking forward to seeing this. It is a very key thing to getting analytics done right. " ... "Often what business users do is rely on a data scientist...
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IBM and Twitter form Partnership to Address Enterprise Decisions
Press release:" .. Twitter and IBM today announced a landmark partnership that will help transform how businesses and institutions understand their customers,#IBMInsight...
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Health Scanning with Sweat Sensors
From our local University of Cincinnati, whose board I was on for years: " ... A University of Cincinnati partnership is reporting a significant leap forward in...
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Analyzing Your Quantified Self
In Mashable: We are quantifying ourselves every day. A massive amount of data, mostly shared. But it is also a movement that is attempting to leverage their...
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Water Canary
Brought to my attention as a sensor and data gathering example: The Water Canary." ... The Water Canary is an inexpensive water-testing device that makes it possible...
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Big Data Analytics Platforms
In Informationweek: " ... Data analysis is a do-or-die requirement for today's businesses. We analyze notable vendor choices, from Hadoop upstarts to traditional...
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Future of Automobiles from Bill Ford
From McKinsey: Long view on the future of automobile technology. " ... There are a lot of forces converging in the auto industry right now, including urbanization...
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Key to Change is Middle Management
In the HBR: With some interesting hints on how this can be achieved. A little soft, but useful thoughts. Middle management is a squishy thing, strongly culture...
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Big Basketball Data
In Wired: Excellent non technical look at tracking the complexity of sports. Have followed this technically for a few years, this is a good non-tech view. Nice...
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Watson Determining Personality and Resonance of Message
Today at the Insight meetings we saw a Watson cognitive App being built from a number of Bluemix services and prefabricated Java. Of particular interest was aGenesys...
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Scene Understanding and Labeling Pixels
A problem I looked at for a startup a few years ago. Ultimately it was chosen to address it by using crowdsourcing. Here a Vimeo interview with Stephen Gould"...
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Watson Analytics Seen Today
Watson Analytics Have yet to get a beta loaner, but today I did get several more in depth demonstrations of the idea. In one case I was able to at least suggest...
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Whole Foods Digital Signage
Whole Foods Store of the future utilizes digital signage. They have been innovators in this space for some time. " .... Whole Foods has unveiled a new range...
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