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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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Augmenting and Scaling Expertise
Thoughts I just put in a private Linkedin Group that deals with how cognitive expertise is effectively delivered. It is all about how we can now augment and scale...
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Reasons for Being Cheerful
Matt Ridley, the rational optimist, provides a number of reasons to be cheerful. Mark J Perry summarizes. Not what I have been seeing in the news.
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Consider Being Obsolete
AdAge Video: I still believe this will take longer than we think. There will be transferal and re-apportionment of many jobs. " ... Are You Obsolete? Yeah...
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Neurogaming Asks a Question
Ron Wright, correspondent, sends along an article: " .... Brain science and video gaming converge in neurogaming ... " . We have still been unable to capture...
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The Need to Reinforce IT
In the Future of CIO: I have often had thoughts of how we have come to rely on Information Technology. " .... Organizations rely more and more on technology;...
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Amazon Payment System
In Adage: An intriguing approach. And of course since you are on the Amazon system, the system already 'knows' much about you. " ... Amazon's Square-Like Payment...
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Dimensions of Portfolio Analysis
Had not seen this particular way of looking at this. Worth a further look. " ... the various reasons why Portfolio Management is tough to implement with two different...
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RFID and Beacons
A recent query reminded me that the RFID journal now covers Beacon type systems. This is an interesting kind of application than might be expected for in-store...
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Beacons in Retail
More on Beacons in retail. " ... Beacons are showing up everywhere. It's open season for retailers as more apps are developed to take advantage of beacon technology...
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E-Commerce and Physical Retail
In the HBR Blogs: Suggesting that e-commerce is not as divisive to physical as is assumed. May require some registration. The statistics are interesting" ......
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Stress Scanning Camera
In the South China Morning Post: Another example of emotion detection by imaging and analysis:" ... Chinese scientists develop mini-camera to scan crowds for potential...
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Connection Analytics from Teradata
Been some time since I have worked with Teradata, but I see they are supporting an Ovum white paper on connection analytics. Understand it as described, though...
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Humor at Work
My former colleague Andrew Tarvin does a TED talk on Humor at work. Also on Facebook. He is now a Humor Engineer at Humor that Works. Nice idea for the enterprise...
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Glasses Get More Augmentation Software
Have always made a point that applications for wearable glasses, like Google Glass, are most valuably applied to augmented reality applications. Mentioned this...
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3D Printing Moves into Production
Good view of examples of how realistic commercial 3D printing is being used in manufacturing and how it may realign supply chain systems. Still narrow domains...
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Hospitals Mining Your Credit Card Behavior
In Businessweek. This scenario has been much in the news. It is starting to happen:" ... Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership...
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Hospitality Robotics Experiment at Starwood
Robots in Hotels. Perhaps not really as multi-functional as what we could call butlers. But you can see how they can be applied. Now how will this influence employment...
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Challenges for Google Glass
Good Wired piece on the challenges for the success of Google Glass. In our own enterprise experiment we also met some of these same issues. Still have not seen...
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Forgetting Leads to Memory Holes in the Web
The EU rulings that you could ask for posts to be removed from Google web searches have led to more unusual and unexpected results. Not that there are not already...
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