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Ohio Aerospace Hub
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ohio Aerospace Hub

Was introduced to the Ohio Aerospace Hub.  Whose vision is to " ... Become the magnet for aerospace entrepreneurs, innovators and business owners seeking opportunity...

3D Printer Startups Video
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Printer Startups Video

Makerbot and other low cost 3D Printer companies are examined in a Netflix video exclusive. Called 'Print the Legend'.  A familiar look at the atmosphere of startups...

Mercedes Self Driving 18 Wheeler
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mercedes Self Driving 18 Wheeler

In CWorld:  Concept Vehicle.  Impressive design.  This should have considerable influence on supply chain efficiency. Good detail in the article." ... Mercedes-Benz...

Newspaper Goes to Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Newspaper Goes to Virtual Reality

A curious example of how newspapers are looking at using virtual reality.  Look at the tag link belong for examples about how we experimented with this.   I have...

Research Transformation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Research Transformation

Sounds very familiar. Creating a research transformation agenda for 2015The two most powerful concepts in marketing research — trends and norms — are also the biggest...

Cheap Gesture Detection in Smartphones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cheap Gesture Detection in Smartphones

In Technology Review:  Another one of our research areas.  In particular how you might use it for consumer interaction in retail.   " .... A research project at...

Book Launch: A Whole New Engineer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Book Launch: A Whole New Engineer

Long time correspondent Dave Goldberg has a book coming out, and there is a party.  I plan to read and review here.Google On Air Hangout to Celebrate Launch ofA...

Steven Pinker on Academic Writing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steven Pinker on Academic Writing

He complains about the quality of academic writing.  As usual, he writes well.  An example:  " .... The other major contributor to academese is a cognitive blind...

Amelia Thinks like You
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amelia Thinks like You

Emergence of more companies in the conversational advisory space.  IPsoft gets publicity in the WSJ today with their cognitive offering:  Amelia, a Machine, Thinks...

Competing in a Digital Age
From The Eponymous Pickle

Competing in a Digital Age

How do you compete in a digital age?  In McKinsey.   " ...  Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbent companies most at risk of being left...

Sankey Diagrams in Google Charts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sankey Diagrams in Google Charts

Notes on elements of advanced visualizations.  Sankey diagrams including multilevel forms, are available in Google Charts.   " ... A sankey diagram is a visualization...

Kroger Tests Customer Pick-Up
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Tests Customer Pick-Up

In the Local Paper: Extending their supply chain in a very natural way. Without the expense and complexity of delivery. What will the uptake be?  Plan to try this...

Common Language for Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Common Language for Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:  Interesting points about how to outline a common language for innovation.  Like the idea, but implementing them in a cultural context...

Analytics Linked with Business Process Modeling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Linked with Business Process Modeling

Re examining business process modeling (BPM) and in particular how it can connect with new methods of analytics and data sources.   We used BPM extensively in the...

Humans and Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Humans and Automation

Good You Tube video: Humans Need not Apply. On the continued progress of automation, and what it means to jobs.  It not only about replacing humans, it is also...

Is Your Content Compelling?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Your Content Compelling?

Could be quite valuable for a number of areas.  This is being experimented with every day in advertising and online.  The data to confirm or deny it is considerable...

Feature Engineering as the Basis of Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feature Engineering as the Basis of Analytics

Very good informal and non technical look at feature engineering.   It is part of any analytic process, sometimes obvious, but also sometimes subtle. My definition...

Tweeting Code
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tweeting Code

To my still enthusiastic Wolfram network, a clever marketing idea.  Not sure how practical.  What I see are more clever than practical." ... With Tweet-a-Program...

Watson in the Organization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson in the Organization

In the 90s, during the last rise in the use of artificial intelligence in business, we were also impressed with how the basic capabilities could improve and extend...

Cloaking Lenses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cloaking Lenses

Ordinary lenses produce cloaking.  Fascinating application that at one level is very easy to understand. Everyday applications?
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