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Mayo Clinic Trials and Watson
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Mayo Clinic Trials and Watson

In CIO:   The use of Watson for clinical trials.   Note the use of natural language interaction.  Key for what IBM is seeing as cognitive advisory applications....

Three Vs vs Decision Process in Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Three Vs vs Decision Process in Analytics

Three big Data Vs.   I agree with the premise, the decision process is more important than labels.  " .... Tony Cosentino, vice president and research director ...

Smell Maps in the City
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smell Maps in the City

Interesting work in FastCompany.     With a geographic visualization.  We looked at a similar idea in retail, to influence shopping behavior.  But we did not get...

Cool DARPA Projects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cool DARPA Projects

Good overview, interesting ideas.  Often, as it says, addressing important real-world, civilian issues." ...  The experimental projects of the Defense AdvancedThe...

Bio Inspired Design for Cognitive Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bio Inspired Design for Cognitive Assistants

By Jim Spohrer:    In a piece about articles relevant to the topic, he writes:  " ... Third, this article made me think more about the question – what is the difference...

Disappearance of Software Patents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disappearance of Software Patents

In the US at least.  Software patents are rapidly disappearing as it is understood that software is not patentable. Interesting view and comments too.  I sent this...

SRI Cognitive Agents
From The Eponymous Pickle

SRI Cognitive Agents

Cognitive Agents that Learn and Organize" ... SRI has dubbed its new project CALO, for Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes. The name was inspired by the Latin...

Digitizing the Customer Decision Journey
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing the Customer Decision Journey

From McKinsey:  A Thoughtful piece.  " ... In a world where physical and virtual environments are rapidly converging, companies need to meet customer needs anytime...

Kellogg Consumer Centric Data Case Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kellogg Consumer Centric Data Case Study

An Ad from Aimia." ... Transforming CPG Loyalty With Consumer Centric Data    It is an exciting time for the CPG industry. Building loyalty with consumers is no...

Big Data and C Level Value
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and C Level Value

In CIO.  Lots of stories to tell here.   Not too much different than it has always been when translating any kinds of analytics to executives.  But now the promise...

A View of the Future of Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

A View of the Future of Analytics

Short post from IBM's AnalyticsZone Blog on The current state of analytics and visualization.  There you can sign up for the Watson Analytics beta.  But it just...

SAP Improves its Visualization, Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP Improves its Visualization, Analytics

Good to finally see this.  It seems they had fallen behind for some time. " ...  SAP has made a series of updates to its InfiniteInsight predictive modeling software...

InfraRed FUSION
From The Eponymous Pickle

InfraRed FUSION

I see that colleagues Elena and Ed Fullman are featured in the local paper.  Best of luck to them." ... Each week Cintrifuse and Cincinnati.com turn the spotlight...

MCX Mobile Wallet
From The Eponymous Pickle

MCX Mobile Wallet

In GigaOM:  More mobile wallets emerging.  Are we finally seeing the major move? Ten years plus since we saw the first presentations from vendors.  " ... MCX launches...

Understanding Ageing with Calico
From The Eponymous Pickle

Understanding Ageing with Calico

Calico Labs:" ... We’re tackling aging, one of life’s greatest mysteries. ... Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advancedThomas...

DebateGraph Visualizing Networks of Thought
From The Eponymous Pickle

DebateGraph Visualizing Networks of Thought

Brought to my attention again via a connect with co-founder David Price.  DebateGraph: " ... DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing...

Intelligence as a Utility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligence as a Utility

New and will follow." ... Siri’s Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask .... " ... Viv is a global platform that enables developersLearn...

Math Makes the Internet Faster
From The Eponymous Pickle

Math Makes the Internet Faster

From this summer, just taking a closer look:" ... Researchers at Aalborg University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the California Institute of...

On a Robot as Your Boss
From The Eponymous Pickle

On a Robot as Your Boss

Nice article in K@W:  The scenario of how robots could be used in close collaboration and real autonomy have been researched.  Closing the loop on measures that...

Soft Starfish Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Soft Starfish Robots

More practical that models that use stiff bodies?  Unclear, but an interesting play ... " ... The bots undulate and walk using compressed air that is forced in...
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