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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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Robot Butlers
A long followed topic. Doing common home tasks is very difficult to do robotically. The classic 'robotic butler' task has been much talked, but rarely delivered...
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More Cheaply Done
MJ Perry describes an example where an individual has been much more efficient than the government. Here scanning documents. Many more examples like this exist...
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Augmented Cosmetics Reality at Sephora
Have seen this idea tried many times. Give consumers the ability to have a mirror that shoes how cosmetics will look on their face. 'The 'magic mirror' idea.Here...
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Dark Stores for Fulfillment
Had not heard the term 'dark stores' for some time, but experimented with the concept some years ago. It also allows experimentation with the structure of the store...
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Augmented Walls for Offices or Living Spaces
Augmenting walls to create enabled office spaces is something we experimented with. Had innovation sessions with office furniture makers. Fastcompany relates ...
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Social Media Analysis Resources
Nathan Gilliatt connected and mentioned he runs a blog on social media analysis that I had missed. " ... The Business of Monitoring, Measuring and Understanding...
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Social TV, A Study
In Knowledge@Wharton. Video podcast and transcript.As social media grows more popular, it’s increasingly becoming a way for industries, companies and brands to...
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A View of Rebel Statistics, But What Were we Using?
Vincent Granville in Data Science Central: Data Science Has Been Using Rebel Statistics for a Long Time. Makes some fascinating comparisons between data science...
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Networks Are Needed for Innovation
Becoming a network needed for innovation. In GigaOM. I heartily agree. A network that bridges multiple context technologies and partners. I am part of a broad...
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Virtual Reality Visualizing Big Data
Beyond eye candy, and permitting in space interaction. This has been done before, but not very usefully. See some of our minor investigations. Now another approach...
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Digital Path to Purchase Data
In Consumer Goods: Don't agree with the beginning premise in the statement below. but more of the data is being stored than ever before. Making sense of it is"...
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A Tour of Bletchley Park
Have a long time interest in code breaking and its connection to the birth of the modern computer. Much of that happened at Bletchley Park. Here a text and image...
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App for the Physically Impaired
On building apps for the physically impaired. From Phys Org News. " .... A new smartphone app developed by a team at the University of Palermo in Italy helpsSite...
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Scratch Creation Language from MIT
Scratch. Was pointed out to me a year ago but just had a chance to take a look. Has existed publicly since 2006. Creation environment for kids. This reminds me...
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User Generated Content and Media Perception
In Knowledge@Wharton: The addition of often politically polarized user-generated content changes public perception of media organizations – and it may hurt profits...
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SEO at Tesco
An example of a technologically advanced retailer:" ... Search engine optimization has helped Tesco grow to occupy 50% of the U.K. online grocery market, and among...
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Buzzradar: Social Media Captured, Visualized
Just brought to my attention: Buzzradar Social Media: Captured, Visualized. " ... We monitor real-time social media content for your brand or event and visualise...
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Predicting World Cup Outcome with Bayesian Networks
A nice example of how a Bayesian network can be used to do predictive analytics. Much more here. " ... Designed around a Causal Bayesian Network, and using the...
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Apache Spark for Hadoop
Had not seen it before, but was recently shown an early implementation of Spark and how it could be used to efficiently drive Hadoop. Impressed by what I saw.Apache...
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