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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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Software Agents
In Computing Now: Long time since I heard about this topic, we experimented broadly in the supply chain area, with some success. " .... Emphasis on autonomous...
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Connected Kitchens
We explored the kitchen in the smart home in detail because we believed that the kitchen was the nexus of the home. Connecting it as one of the nodes in an internet...
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Useful Mystery of Light Harvesting
In Technology: New to me, always fascinating when there is activity in nature that we cannot explain by physics and chemistry. And certainly one that could point...
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Mobile Rules Wal-Mart
In VentureBeat: " ... Mobile rules Walmart: Accounted for 53% of Thanksgiving traffic, new mobile customers up 3X ... "
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On Total Quality Mangagement
Another topic that has seen less talk lately: Total quality Management. Here in the Smart KPIs Blog. "... Total Quality Management – a means for improvement ....
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Smart Textiles
In ComputingNow: A topic we explored, being a garment care industry, but have not heard much about recently:" ... Current technology supports only special-purpose...
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Improving Mobile Marketing
In Mashable: Thoughtful piece about the behavior of the consumer while mobile. What more data do we need to gather to do useful analytics? " ... When it comes...
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Ford and the Internet of Everything
Good piece from the Cisco Blog on how Ford is working with the Internet of Everything. Good explanation because we are all acquainted with the context of our use...
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Survival Analysis
A method I rarely had cause to use in my career, but good to know about. Peter Flom does a good job of explaining. " ... when the dependent variable is time Straightforward...
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Tamagotchi to Re Hatch in 2014
Hard to believe it was over seventeen years ago, then we examined the Tamagotchi by Bandai 'pets' as a means to connect with consumers. They were a true craze...
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Finding Things at Lowe's
Not a new thing. Using an App to find things in a complex space like Retail. We examined this, starting with kiosk systems. But I like the implication that things...
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International Institute for Analytics
Brought to my attention by Joe Sunderman, who I had the pleasure to talk to yesterday about my view of analytics. The International Institute for Analytics. ...
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Innovation Request: Food Monitoring
A client has asked me to provide this link more publicity, from Ideaconnection, which connects innovations to product needs: " ... Technology Wanted: Consumer...
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On A/B Testing and Better Experimental Design
In Wired: On the well known method of A/B testing. It is one of the simplest experimental designs, but is sometimes not good enough. A example of the model...
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Inexpensive 3D Scanning
In Engadget: Relatively inexpensive, portable 3D scanning to capture a description of an object up to ten by ten feet. " ... If the product is indeed what 3D...
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Hadoop and a Pending Metadata Mess
An intriguing point about the tool and its use, and general documentation of data, its origins and measurements (metadata) : " ... Why is Hadoop so popular? There...
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Nano satellites Powered by a Smartphone
In CWorld: I like the modular simplicity. " .... Fleet of CubeSat nanosatellites now orbiting earth, sending back data CubeSats built by NASA and various colleges...
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Python Displacing R?
Interesting suggestion. But no real data is given. They are different beasts, Python is a general purpose computer language, while R is designed to work with...
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iMFlux Plastics
Brought to my attention again, also see previous article on this.SHAPING TECHNOLOGYiMFLUX, Inc, is a technology and innovation leader in plastics processing. The...
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