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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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Resources: Wolfram Programming in the Cloud
Last week I posted about Wolfram's in the Cloud implementation of what they are calling 'Knowledge-Based Programming'. I have been asked by a client to explore...
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Flexible Loyalty Systems Needed
Makes a very good point. My own interviews with consumers in the earlier days of loyalty programs showed that there was clearly loyalty segmentation. More difficult...
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Retail View of the Future
What we attempted to do, for a while at least, in innovation centers. Like what I see here.RETF Offers Glimpse Into the Future of GroceryTesser, a San Francisco...
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Uses of Thermal Cameras
Why do you need one on your camera phone? Popular Mechanics looks at some examples.
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USAA Marketing Analytics
Keys to marketing analytics, a good case study of the process. United Services Automobile Association USAA, In the Financial, Insurance, Marketing space. Good...
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In Car Facial Recognition
In Motor Authority: A means to determine who is in the drivers seat. Security, safety? Insurance? " .... In order to expand the capabilities of in-car tech, Ford...
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Phone as Quake Detector
Thousands or possibly millions of smartphones can create a new kind of monitoring network, according to "Community and Sense Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake...
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Apple Wearable Strategy
An interesting piece. A few weeks ago I saw a presentation about the Disney Parks arm bands and how the data from them was being gathered and leveraged. I was...
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Nanotechnology Update
Been a while since I looked at the Foresight Institute's nanotechnology update. We used it as a means to stay up to date on new materials we might want to use...
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Fierce Retail IT
Newly brought to my attention, newsletter and blog:Free Retail IT Industry News BriefWhether it’s mobile payment fiascos, PCI security changes, E-Commerce hiccups...
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Social TV, Syncing Social and TV
Recently started to use a system that included what was called 'Social TV'. Which aimed to show a social feed from the other people watching. But there wasReal...
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Virtual Banking Assistance
In Engadget: Seeing an increasing interest the assistant idea. It was a big emphasis back in the AI days. The area here, in banking and financial, is an ideal...
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Measuring Goosebumps in Real Time
In CACM: A particular kind of sensory -emotional measurement I had not seen before. How does this compare to galvanic skin response, which it seems to be related...
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Birthday of the Barcode
The Barcode is 40 years old. Like with many computing anniversaries, the age seems small. My enterprise was involved with its development, standardization and...
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Mining Data in this Blog: Old Links
Had cause to help several people use this blog to mine efforts in the area of Big Data applications of value to Retail. We found a number of interesting applications...
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Midmarket Business and the Cloud: Reshaping the World of Business
Participated in this conference call yesterday. Reshaping the World of Business Nicely done. The speakers brought their experiences forward. I followed with...
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Supply Chain is a Step to Profit
A key to increasing Profit. In Industry Week." ...Supply chain optimization and supplier management are important steps toward boosting profit. Companies can get...
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Essential Hadoop Tools
Some essential Hadoop tools. An introductory slideshow, which is useful for the beginner. And a useful explanatory overview " ... .While many refer to the entire...
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What Does Math Look Like in 3D?
In Wired: An early interest, probably the first thing I wrote about, long before blogs, always hoped there would be practical applications, but never found one...
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