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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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The Enterprise as a Connection of Things
In Baseline: Enterprise as a collection of things, and their internal and external connections. People too. " ... There's a growing interest in understanding...
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Pangrammatic Tweets
Always have been interested in how to programmatically analyze text. We worked with large text bases long ago using what was then called 'content analysis', which...
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Mind Tricks of Scammers
In the BBC: On the psychology of scamming. While we often pay attention to the technology involved, the scamming methods that exist have been around for a long...
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Google and Open Source Docker
Of interest, new to me:" ... Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that’s already one of the hottest new ideas in the world...
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Basic Information About Apple Pay
A good, short overview of some of the technical and practical aspects of Apple Pay. Taking a closer look.
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Transforming Messaging with the Data
Foodies Transforming grocery messaging. Not really a technical idea, but an understanding that the form of the message needs to adapt to change in consumer expectations...
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Detecting Bogus Reviews
How good is data science at detecting and flagging bogus reviews in Amazon or Yelp? Some interesting points about how these problems are created and their solution...
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What a Phone Can't Tell Police
Fascinating, non technical look at the complexity of what can and cannot be derived from cell phone based location information.
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Procedurally Generated Games, Advertising
Procedurally generated games allow new kinds of backgrounds, components and interactions to be provided in a virtual world. This was discussed early on as wayIn...
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Lotus 1-2-3 Support Ended
Historical note. We used Lotus extensively in the enterprise in the late 80s. It was the second major electronic spreadsheet offering, after Visicalc. We also...
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Artificial Intelligence in the World University
It has been a while since I have looked at Wikis outside of Wikipedia. We developed intra-Wikis experimentally, but not with great success. Check some of my other...
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Collaboration Environment Requirements
In Cisco Blog: A topic often covered here. What really makes it work? Strongly leveraged Data, Analytics, context, focus and culture are my answers. Technology...
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Supply Chain Collaboration
Supply chain collaboration. Ultimately essential to scale to the solution for the right context. It is about visibility, but what does that term mean? Agree...
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Amazon Crowdsourcing Publishing
Amazon's outsourced publishing platform called WriteOn. As launched, aimed at publishing fiction. But could the same thing be done with other kinds of publishing...
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Digital NYC Launched
To my startup friends in NYC, Digital NYC has launched. Congratulatons! Got a great impression of their work during my last visit. It is also well supported...
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Internet of Things in China
First I had seen of reports on the IOT in China. In GigaOM:" ... In conversations with companies doing business in China on the IoT front, the picture that emerged...
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Skin Patch Monitors Health
From IdeaConnection:A discrete new 'skin-like' health monitor could be used to monitor a range of conditions from dry skin to cardiovascular disease.Created by...
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Open Source Dominates Big Data
Interesting to see this historical view of a very recent development. The story of Hadoop. Also adds to the increasing interest and investment in open source....
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Teams and Risks
Recent interactions with the compliance community have tuned me into how risks need to be managed. In the HBR:" ... Many companies pay lip service to the value...
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