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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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Augmented Reality Museum Tour
From Metaio. Here using the example of a museum tour. An excellent example of the use of augmented reality. Combining physical and artificial spaces to provide...
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An Electronic Nose to Detect State of Health
Looking at the Electronic nose again. We were primarily interested in detecting engaging aromas in coffee. Now In Knowledge @ Wharton: " ... Samuel M. Khamis,...
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Essentials of Business Analytics
Continue to make my way through this new text. Which seeks to position the three kinds of analytics: Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive. As I have preached...
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Behavioral Research in System 1 vs System 2
If you have been following some recent advances in thinking about cognition: " ... Charles Young examines what we can learn about measuring ad effectiveness byvia...
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January/February Analytics Magazine
The latest issue of the always useful Analytics Magazine is now available. Cover articles include analytics careers and consulting. Good spread of detail and"...
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Google Nests in the Smart Home
We actively experimented with smart home systems, solutions and configuration. Google's investment in the Nest thermostat indicates a big investment in a key part...
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Bias in Strategy Decisions
Bias, or what we often saw: 'confirmation bias' is a key danger in any kind of research or decision process. This is particularly important in less defined strategy...
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Fate of the PC
Scoping the fate of the PC. They seem to be morphing into the tablet. What aspects of devices are true requirements?
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Towards Socialogical Systems
In the Future of the CIO: Future From a Mechanical to Sociological System. Is this a digital shift? An academic view.
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MIT Comp Sci Prof Explains Quantum Computing
A relatively non technical article in the WSJ on the state of Quantum computing, An interview about what it is, what it might be good for, and where it may be going...
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Convincing People that Smartphone Shopping is Safe
Recent events have made this more difficult, but the solutions and behavior needed are still there. What is the particular nature of the Smartphone that makesConvincing...
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The Growing Scope of the Internet of Things
Gartner says it will grow 30 time to 26 billion by 2020. My guess that it will grow even larger, as more devices, some that we were not expecting, come online...
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Gardeners vs Architects
In Innovation Excellence: A kind of designer vs analytics argument that is interesting. We dealt with this when we added a design function. But like in this...
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Her - The Movie Influences User Interface
Back when I was giving talks at our innovation centers, the most frequently mentioned media was the move 'Minority Report'. Then just out and portraying an advertising...
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Visualizing Unstructured Data
Good overview of the topic. Examples like 'word clouds' are typical. And semantic nets that we used to represent the interaction between terms. Concept maps...
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WiFi in the Internet of Things
In Ara Technica: Fairly obvious that many things will be connected wirelessly. A home or business is an aggregation of things that need to be connected to joint...
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Virtual Keyboard for Wearable Computing
Just brought to my attention by Lars Asplund: SenseBoard" ... The New Technology that can give you a Virtual keyboard, a mouse, or a gesture sensitive device to...
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Power of Networks
Crucially its about how to set up, evolve and utilize our networks."The Power of NetworksWhat can a network learn that an individual cannot?By MIT Technology Review...
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Facebook Partners for Artificial Intelligence
Facebook joins NYU for AI Lab. They certainly have a lot of social data. Part of a new push towards practical, Big Data oriented AI. IBM's Watson is another...
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