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DARPA Learning Machines
From The Eponymous Pickle

DARPA Learning Machines

New kinds of machine learning have been an emphasis of DARPA.  In Wired,   " ... The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year projectWhen...

Storytelling Nodes of New Technologies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storytelling Nodes of New Technologies

If you have followed this space for a long time, you know I cover many technologies and their implications.  Most of which I started looking at in the enterprise...

Shapeshifting Touch Display
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shapeshifting Touch Display

An example of virtual interaction. " ... The Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab has unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels. We live in an...

Walmart v Amazon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart v Amazon

The last battle?  In Knowledge@Wharton.  For dominance in retail. " ... In the retail realm, it’s a clash of the titans: Walmart, the world’s largest retailer,But...

Blending Data is Good
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blending Data is Good

It has been some time since I looked at the vendor Pentaho.  Examined it for use in the enterprise.  I noticed that they have something called the data blend of...

DB Pedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

DB Pedia

Can a semi-structured text database like the Wikipedia be used to extract structured data?  This is the goal of the DbPedia: " ... DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community...

Georgia Tech on Wearable
From The Eponymous Pickle

Georgia Tech on Wearable

What are the cultural and social aspects of wearable computing?  A Ga Tech researcher addresses.  While I agree this is an issue, you could, and some did make the...

2013 Business Intelligence Symposium
From The Eponymous Pickle

2013 Business Intelligence Symposium

Register now to attend the 2013 Business Intelligence Symposium offered through the Center for Business Analytics in the Carl H. Lindner College of Business atThe...

Millennials and Shopper Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Millennials and Shopper Marketing

In Smartblogs: The rise of the omni-channel shopper in the millennial.  The link below is also of interest and new to me." ... The Coca-Cola Company sponsors this...

What Drives Internet Traffic?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Drives Internet Traffic?

Mostly Netflix and Youtube.  Not surprising, being heavily used video resources.   While I am a litte surprised at this: " ... Meanwhile, peer-to-peer file sharing...

Cyc, the Enterprise and Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cyc, the Enterprise and Wikipedia

Recent research had me take a look back on the Cyc project, which we had examined during our AI explorations.   We talked to Lenat's Cycorp. The system promised...

Multi Modal Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multi Modal Drones

In Wired:  As you might expect, the primary uses here are military. " ... This Drone Can Fly, Swim, Drive, and Hop Its Way Through a Mission  .. "  But it points...

Enterprise Architecture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise Architecture

Thinking Future architecture.  " ... Doing Enterprise Architecture is different from managing other type of IT or business project, as it includes from abstract...

Mobile Apps Drive Smart Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Apps Drive Smart Homes

In GigaOM:  Expectes 21.5 million in US and Europe by 2017.  The definition is still somewhat uncertain.  We continue to experiment with the idea, after starting...

Data Science Books
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science Books

Vincent Granville posts a good list of more than 100 data science, analytics, big data and visualization books.  With links to further commentary and access.  Nicely...

Data Pollution on the Rise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Pollution on the Rise

In ClickZ:  Cleansing data.  As we start to mine all the easy big data we are uncovering more difficult layers we will need to better understand.  What are the...

Real Humans in the Loop
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Humans in the Loop

Have you noticed?  Real humans are entering the App loop.    ' ... Google Helpouts and Amazon's Mayday are changing everything ... " .  Its long been my contention...

Comments on this Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comments on this Blog

Repeating my policy.  Readership is up and Spam is increasing.  All comments are moderated. I cannot read or approve anonymous comments without prior approval....

Johnson & Johnson Brand Tracking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Johnson & Johnson Brand Tracking

Looking for a different measure.   Portfolio oriented.  " ... Johnson & Johnson is moving to a unified methodology for tracking some of its “mega brands”, global...

McKinsey on Enhancing Application Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

McKinsey on Enhancing Application Development

Always of interest.  But does this mean we can have less technical people involved?  This has long been a goal, but is not really happening.  Its still a very technical...
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