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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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Drones are Joining the Robots in 3D
In IEEE Spectrum: The drone empire of the future? Robotics will, more commonly, be operating in 3D. " ... Small unmanned aerial vehicles are changing from toys...
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Crowdsourcing at Lego
In Innovation Excellence: How Lego is using social crowdsourcing for engagement. Where the audience seems to be in control, with good effect. Of course Lego...
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Data Science Book
An introduction to Vincent Granville's new data science book. Worth a look, his work is usually very well done. Not available until April. " ... This book is...
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Promising Privacy from Big Data
A promise is given to vet big data's impact on privacy. Will await the results.
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Automating Price Tracking
In Retailwire: An obvious thing that can be done online. Amazon, with its size and breadth, is the obvious target. How should they respond? " ... Amazon's...
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Open Data Portals and Data Value for Future Analytics
The breadth of what is happening here is interesting. The problem here is that the data is often not in the right form, or is incomplete, for specific uses. "...
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Short Data Science Tutorials
Data Science Central always has interesting items to examine. Here a number of short data science tutorials and templates. The first one in the list points to...
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Fujitsu Palm Scanning
In Computerworld: Saw an early example of this in research labs a few years ago. Was unclear how much better and reliable it was than fingerprint approaches then...
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More Men are Grocery Shopping
In Mediapost: " ... More than half of men now shop for groceries and household items more often than their spouses, and 65% of men surveyed said they were the...
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Big Data from Big Database Providors
I have been asked to give a talk and write up about how classic relational database providers have been positioning the phenomenon of Big Data. From an analytic...
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Copyright Chaos or Disclaimer?
It is suggested that the recent 'muslim' ruling that would pull critical content from You Tube videos could change the way content is managed. Will providers need...
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Seeking Invisibility in China
The topic is an interesting one, and not as science fiction as we think. It has applications in a number of practical areas. Out of China: " ... Chinese scientists...
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Google Glass for the Ears
In Mashable: We examined audible interaction. Both internally and with shoppers in retail. Sound and vision have different bandwiths. Different precision. What...
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Revealing Relationships with Graphical Discovery: Teradata Aster
Graphical analysis has been covered here a number of times. In particular using the GePhi package. We see that this is written about in the Teradata blog, using...
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Tribeca Disruptive Innovation
Chat series from Tribeca awards. Points also to the Disruptor Foundation. I am suspicious of awards meetings. But they have value if they bring together practitioners...
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SXSW Accelerator Finalists in Big Data and Beyond
Thought provocative SXSW accelerator finalists. In particular the big data in the enterprise section, but more beyond that. " ... For the 2014 SXSW Accelerator...
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What Consumer Segments Say
Regrettably presented as an infographic, but an interesting view of consumer segmentation. Points through to a white paper that requires registration. " .... The...
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Trade Marking Simple English Phrases
Can you trademark a phrase? To the extent to which you are willing to sue. In Language Log. A list of phrases and their defenders. Here the defenders are promoters...
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Shaping the Future of Manufacturing
In McKinsey: Some interesting views on manufacturing. " ... A Video: Shaping the future of manufacturing ... Advances in technology are allowing companies to...
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