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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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Standardizing and Optimizing Containers
More work on standardizing shipping containers. A natural progression. We examined RFID use in many kinds of shipping infrastructure. Now companies looking at...
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Toddler Intelligence Learning
The Baby-X Toddler simulation at the Creators Project. Getting smarter every day, they say. But I do wonder about what the real measure is. True deep AI is...
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Bad Data Handbook
I like the book title premise. Having just been involved in a project that included dealing with bad data, however it is defined. Also to be considered: Data...
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Big Data for Grocery
Comments on grocery and loyalty data:" ... Today's technology offers supermarkets new ways to use the growing sea of customer loyalty data to their advantage as...
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More Corporate Drones
Yet another example of corporations building drone programs. Here Google's Project Wing. I guess this is cheaper, and apparently safer than a fleet of aircraft...
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Tangible Media Group and Enchanted Objects
David Rose, Head of the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab and author of the book: "Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things" "...
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IDEO and Nearables
IDEO worked with us by helping build a Gym for designing consumer products, which connected to our innovation centers. Now they are promoting the idea of bluetooth...
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We are All Data Scientists Now
Are we all data scientists now? I think so, and in particular we need to get the owners and experts using the data to understand its analytical potential. They...
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Computer Science from MIT
Have worked with a number of groups at MIT. Here a slide show that covers computing developments that have come from there.
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Stephen Few on Big Data Reality
A lengthy and thoughtful piece by visualization expert Stephen Few. He concludes and makes some excellent points . People still make most data based decisions...
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Ensemble Methods
Ensemble methods are means of using multiple approaches to solving an analytical problem. Different tools can be better for different machine learning problems...
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Meaningful Mobile Maps
Looking at the math to make mobile maps more meaningful. Could also be applied beyond geographical maps to maps of knowledge or interactions. Even virtual reality...
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Understanding Expertise and Data Related to Work Descriptions
Have recently started to look at how expertise matches tasks that need to be done. I have worked in this area in the enterprise to attempt to optimize resource...
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CPG Needs a Digital Game Plan
From the Boston Consulting Group. Obvious perhaps, but also a number of interesting statements and statistics. Every company that plans to be around in the coming...
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Business Innovation Factory
Brought to my attention. Strong emphasis on storytelling. " ... THE BIF MANIFESTO: We believe that business model innovation is on the critical path to transforming...
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Nature of Anonymous Reviews
In RetailWire: Short piece on the topic with statistics. Have been asked to look at this from a Big data, near real time perspective.
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BidSquare Auctions
I have worked with an auction company in establishing their offering taxonomies. Also have worked with the technical process of auctions. I see thatCowan's auctions ...
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Statistician's View of Big Data
Colleague Diego Kuonen just gave an update of his excellent talk: A Statistician's View on Big Data and Data Science. Good place to start." ... There is no question...
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Digital Strategy
McKinsey on digital Strategy. Podcast and text. " ... Incumbent companies face critical decisions when it comes to addressing digitization. In this video interview...
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