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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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Sonification Assist for the Blind
Assisting the blind with sonification, changing sensory information to sound. " ... Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed an assistive...
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Internal Social Networks at BASF
BASF's internal network. An area we also worked in the enterprise, and were influenced by both BASF and IBM. Worth a closer look now regarding where they have...
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Open Science
Open science and its implications. See Open Science Foundation, and its twitter feed. " ... The Open Science Federation is a nonprofit alliance working to improve...
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Nike Fuel Infographic as a Model
Currently thinking about how a visual could be used to provide an easily scan-able graphic. Consider the infographic as an easy to refer to summary of the data...
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DARPA Open Catalog of Resources
Brought to my attention, the DARPA open catalog, which links to available computational, analytical and visualization resources. Note mention of XDATA and Big"...
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Grocery and Twitter
Orlando Publix using Twitter. Good example of simple social media use in physical retail. " .... A year ago this month, Publix realized its customers were already...
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The Visual Organization
Forthcoming book brought to my attention, an idea we have frequently supported here. For example, see the following post. Look forward to a deeper examination...
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Get to the Point and the Focus
A long time enterprise goal was to facilitate focus to tasks. Projects like P&G's Business Sphere, starting with earlier work in executive information systems,...
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IrezQ America Smartphone Sensors for Travel Safety
I see that my correspondent Art Caisse was the founder of and is now the executive chairman of IrezQ-America. The smartphone app automatically contacts emergency...
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Expanding Paths to Online Grocery
Online grocers. An area we watched closely. It worked then, but selectively. Has the corner turned? Article contains some good current examples." ... As online...
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Rise of Wikidata
In Computing Now. Introduced to the idea a year ago. Worth a further look. Using Wikipedia data for a centralized source of structured public data makes much...
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Real and Virtual Worlds and the Proteus Effect
I covered virtual worlds extensively in this blog in the past. In particular how they could be used to simulate real work interactions. See previous posts onon...
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Self Destructive Electronics
IBM win a contract to research the topic. I recall this idea being discussed before the need became more critical. " ... The military wants to use self-destructing...
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Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise
We worked with Stanford on a number of natural language processing oriented problems, including the Talking Mr. Clean effort. I note that a number of the spin...
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Discomfort as Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: I don't see it as the key to innovation. Yet it is not by itself a bad sign. Some discomfort is always a sign that any change has been...
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Kurzweil Reviews the Movie Her
An AI view. Now beyond Minority Report, and with shades of Siri. Is this where we are headed? It does provide an interesting structure to think about how we...
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iBeacon and Shopping Behavior
In Mashable: More looks into location based shopping information. With some obvious comments: " ... Will consumers embrace Apple and iBeacon's nearly frictionless...
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Hangout for the Enterprise
Although I have now tested Google+ Hangouts a number of times, have never tried to work with it under enterprise constraints. A new service permits greater connectivity...
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Big Data as Your Doctor
A very obvious conclusion, it was understood in the AI hype of the late 80's. But we didn't have all the hardware or software in place to make it happen. You...
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