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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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Whole Foods Accepts Apple Pay
Continuing to follow efficient and secure digital wallet ideas. Here a new development with major players. " ... Whole Foods Market Inc. will be among the first...
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Classic AI Resources Online
I see that Georgia Tech is offering a new course on AI and Cognitive systems. And one of the books of readings is available free online. This is the same book...
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Disruptive Innovation and Market Leaders
In Knowledge@Wharton: How does disruptive innovation effect market leaders? Not unexpected results, will be interesting to see some numbers." ... a study soon...
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Advanced Analytics in Insurance
Article from McKinsey: " ... Advanced analytics can transform how insurers do business, but realizing its potential requires complex, large-scale organizational...
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Machine Learning Future
Interview with machine learning expert David Blei. " ... I think that one of the next breakthroughs in modern machine learning and statistics will involve observational...
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Moving Portraits
In CACM: Augmentation to storytelling? A Vimeo demonstration.We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person...
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Visual Control of Big Data
Visual Control of Big Data - MIT Very interesting new development." ... The Database Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has...
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Navigating the Future, Today
Sorry I saw this very late, someone should have sent it to me! On a TED talk by Christopher Ahlberg, who worked with us on the question of how to understand and...
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Building Google's Quantum Computer.
Google has been working on the idea for some time, including testing the D-Wave computer mentioned here a number of times. Now some interesting details about the...
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Preferences for Autonomous Control
Some research that seems to indicate how people think about robots that take control. We will ultimately have to deal with these questions." ... If a company wants...
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Stress Detection from Google Glass
In Engadget: Saw similar work at MIT in previous years, and tested the use of affective sensors attached to glasses to detect emotional reaction to product in context...
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Disney Magic via Big Data and MagicBand
Interesting examples of a company providing magic via big data. Disney, quite an entertainment colossus now, is known for leveraging emerging technology. Only"...
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End of Build it Yourself Software
In GigaOM: This has been happening for a long time, but recent excursions through enterprise halls show this is becoming more true. Much less is being purpose...
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Advisory System for Recipes
Bon Appetit articles on the use of advisory systems to build or enhance food recipes. Including a number of actual recipes created this way. Are the creative?...
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Linkedin Retiring InMaps
We were exposed to this tool some time ago as a means to gain insight into corporate structure. Now Linkedin is retiring it. Would like to hear of cases where...
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Updating Our Address in the Galaxy
I like to know my address. GPS now provides me with one accurate location metric. Now Nature reports on another measure: " ... Earth's new address: 'Solar System...
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Resources for Cognitive App Development
Have been exploring in more depth some of the detail behind IBM Watson/Cognitive. Particularly interested in how this differs from work we did in the 90s in the...
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Capturing Sentiment from Financial News
From the ACM: Talk on determining sentiment and prediction from text analysis in financial news. This requires filling out a registration. " ... Can the choice...
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How Retail Hacking Works: Danger at Point of Sale
A very instructive piece in the Cisco Blog about how retail hacking at point of sale works, and how it can be addressed. Must reading. " ... With the announcement...
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