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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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Python most Popular Teaching Language
Although most larger non tech enterprises these days do little internal programming themselves, it is interesting to see what programming languages are being taught...
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Company Initiative Overload
Have seen it. There can even be be overload in figuring out which initiatives to work on. Ao how should we address this? Some good embedded ideas, in Forbes: ...
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Tableau Research Builds New UX for Data
Always looking for better user interfaces to make the curation and utilization of data more obvious to both the analyst and the decision maker, who need to understand...
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Augmented Reality for Smart Watches
From press release today: Implies the integration of a camera in a Smart watch and fast advanced image recognition. " .... , Metaio, today announced the firstSmart...
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Live, Free Microsoft Research Summit
I plan to tune in for a part of this:Microsoft Research Faculty Summit to Be Streamed Live July 14Join us for a broadcast of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit...
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Roles in the Newly Empowered Retail Democracy
In Retailwire: Short piece that takes the idea beyond the typical view of just buying product. The new consumer wants to be a: - Supply chain manager: deciding...
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Watson Assistant in the Power of Your Hand
Today we completely expect intelligence to be in the palm of our hands. We can get it, but the means at hand now is repeated search. There have been a numberScoble...
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SmartPhones are Listening
In the WSJ Digits: It is often forgotten that phones can listen in ways other than during the usual call. A good piece that addresses this sensory mode " ......
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DARPA Explained and Now Socialized
An Engadget view of the US Pentagon's DARPA. With which I have had some connections. As expected it's mostly about the mad science notions. Which gets lots...
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Disney Accelerator Chooses Choremonster
The ChoreMonster system, founded by a former colleague, has been mentioned here a number of times. Now they have been chosen by the Disney Accelerator. The premise...
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Better Shared Marketing Decision Methods
In the HBR Blogs:" ... Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. But...
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3D Loyalty Apps
Retailwire: 3D Loyalty Apps." ... Walgreens has partnered with its loyalty-app partner, Aisle411, to test Google's virtual indoor 3-D mapping technology, Project...
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Watson and Health Process Visualization Using Sankey Diagrams
On the topic of Watson + Visualization, Watson paths is a good example. A research project. " WatsonPaths is a new cognitive computing project that enables more...
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Emotional Marketing Headline Analyzer
You plug in your blog headline and it calculates its value in a given context. Have not tried it as yet. Click here." .... This free tool will analyze yourYour...
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Visualizing the Data we Have
Video from the US Office of Personnel management (OPM). Leveraging the Data We Have: Utilizing Data Visualization Analytics The general point here is good, we...
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Holographs Brings Back Performers
In the CACM: Technical, but very readable piece on the history and use of the holographic illusion. Remember seeing these live in Disney World a long time ago,...
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Implications of the Right to be Forgotten
In Businessweek: " .... Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received...
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Military Glasses
In Defense One, an example of 'military glasses'. How are these different from Google Glass? First with more of an emphasis on usable, task oriented augmented...
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The Meaning of the Rise of in-Car Cameras
Its hard to understand all the implications of connected vehicles. The camera is a particularly interesting case because it is a very broad kind of sensor, soIn...
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