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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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Artafact and Serious Games for Customer Insight
Brought to my attention, an AMA Webcast on November 19, 2013 at 12 noon CST: By Research company Artafact. (who is providing the gaming expertise)" ... How can...
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Grasp Robotics Laboratory at Penn
Brought to my attention, new things ongoing at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Robot swarms that fly and cooperate. See an exciting video on their...
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Google Tracking Your Location
Google has a lot of power, and continues to cleverly leverage it, mixing search behavior, location and purchasing choices:" ... Google is beta-testing a program...
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Screenwriting and Storytelling
Have examined the approaches of screenwriting for storytelling. Not precisely on point, but worth looking at, see Blake Snyer's site. And his book: Save...
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Blockbuster Closes, Reopens for Liquidation
This is quite a change, having lived through the era of readily available physical video media stores. Now Blockbuster video, once ubquitous, is closing its remaining...
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Street Light System with Audio and Video Recording
In is natural to include security and pattern recording systems in lighting. We tested the idea for retail. Here a new integration: " ... Las Vegas Installs “Intellistreets...
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Agile Mindsets
Agile is necessary. It should be a midset. But what does it really mean? Pearl Zhu: From the Future of CIO: " ... Agility is the ability to adapt to the changes...
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Panoramio Redesign
The Google Operating System reports that the image locating service Panoramio has been redesigned to make it look like a Google Maps extension. It was acquired...
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Unilever's CEO Talks the Future
Why Unilever's CEO takes the long-term approachUnilever CEO Paul Polman said his job is "to make others successful," which he achieves by taking a long-term approach...
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High Fidelity Fast Smart Scanning
In Engadget: We have many new opportunities for scanning these days. And more our smart phones have become scanners. But the nature of the context can makeBlinkscan...
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Fading Interest in the Humanities
In the NYT: Creating a worry in colleges. I further observe that Its harder to justify the costs, and as most everything has an important part of underlying technology...
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Procter & Gamble and Unilever Honored
In Mediapost:" ... Procter & Gamble and Unilever are in the top spots among marketers of consumer packaged goods, and Wal-Mart Stores and Target are the most effective...
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Creativity Challenges from IDEO
In the HBR: From a group we used a number of times. For more on that click on the IDEO tag below. We practiced by setting up context creating locations. For...
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Army Powerpoint vs Tableau
When I first read this I thought this it gave the impression that Tableau and Powerpoint were competing for the same purpose. I see them having the same operational...
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Mistakes Made in Machine Learning
These are some of the best known examples of mistakes often made in machine learning i.e. predictive analytics projects. Well stated, the examples are good,...
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November Analytics Magazine: Text Analytics
The Informs Outreach magazine this month has as its emphasis text analytics. Always interesting, business solution oriented, not heavily technical. I read every...
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Views from Our Top Shopper Scientist
Colleague and correspondent Herb Sorensen writes about the shopper from the view of a scientist. He helped us formulate some of the key concepts we used in the...
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Machines Taking Over
Are we making it too easy for machines to take over? In ReadwriteWeb. Do we see early symptoms when we listen for every smartphone ring? I have been reading...
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Big Data and Social Science
A number of interesting items in the Edge about the implications of new models, and most notable to me the implications of Big Data, for social science. Social...
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