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Technology and Dementia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology and Dementia

Technology solutions for dementia care.  Here from the CACM.  An extensive view of technology current and future uses, and the barriers involved.   I am peripherally...

Future of Cloud Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Cloud Computing

Recorded Future looks at the future of cloud computing.  " ... As businesses continue to modernize, technological innovation accelerates. Cloud computing is a relatively...

Convincing People Mobile Shopping is Safe
From The Eponymous Pickle

Convincing People Mobile Shopping is Safe

In Baseline Mag: Intrigued by the element of persuasion here.  Not an argument about safety itself.

Smartwatch for Corporate Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartwatch for Corporate Productivity

Looking at the smartwatch format as improving corporate productivity.  Seems a stretch beyond the mild improvement in convenience in carrying the things around....

Google Helpouts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Helpouts

Google now offers a method to seek and potentially sell online assistance via video, called Helpouts.    Google takes a flat 20 percent transaction fee.  More...

Numbers from the History of the World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Numbers from the History of the World

In Tableau Public Gallery.  Nicely done visualization of a large selection of key numbers over history. " ...  Julia Gusman with this viz reminds us the work of...

Certified Analytics Professional
From The Eponymous Pickle

Certified Analytics Professional

Become a Certified Analytics Professional, a service provided by Informs.  Not sure how widely this is accepted by companies.  Checking into it further.  "Next...

Telling Your Story with Twitter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Telling Your Story with Twitter

An approach to tell your life story via only your Twitter stream.  Course that means you have to be using twitter all the time.   Have seen similar approaches with...

Finding Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding Big Data

Several recent projects have involved public big data, so have become used to the thought of seeking out such data and mashing it up with internal data.  Geographic...

Innovations of Hadoop 2
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovations of Hadoop 2

Innovations of Note: " ... Hadoop 2 has brought along with it new ways of processing data and storing even more data. It suggests the Hadoop community understands...

Hofstadter Making Machines Think
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hofstadter Making Machines Think

In the Atlantic:  An extensive article on author Douglas Hofstadter and machine learning.  We read with great gusto his book :  Godel, Escher Bach back in the 80s...

Intelligent Color From L'Oreal
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Color From L'Oreal

In Clickz:  New ways to market cosmetics in context.   With similarity to some of our virtual makeover work. " ... In a location perhaps better known for rats and...

Twitter Infringing IBM Patents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Twitter Infringing IBM Patents

A piece in Gigom:  Had a number of discussions with IBM when when they were doing lots of social media exploration for improving internal communications, so not...

Essential Office Elements and Clouds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Essential Office Elements and Clouds

 If we look at the triple of basic office tools:  Word processing, spreadsheets and slideshows. its interesting to see the competitors today.  Especially when we...

Back to Robots for the IPad
From The Eponymous Pickle

Back to Robots for the IPad

Had cause to go back to the Robots for the iPad App, had not been there for some time.   Its by the IEEE, does an excellent job of surveying a number of robot implementation...

Managing Supply Chain Talent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Supply Chain Talent

Something we had a priority for.  Something we also found to be one of the easiest kinds of talent to get outside because it is a mature idea in many industries...

Tackling the Shopping List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tackling the Shopping List

A problem we worked on for years.  The smart shopping list. Starting with a Blackberry implementation.  And many others.   But was that the best approach? A self...

Millennials  and Their Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Millennials and Their Devices

In Clomedia.  Good piece.  It has long been suggested that new generations are so used to new tech that they don't need to adapt to it at all.  Often touted as ...

Smart Homes Need Eyes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Homes Need Eyes

This GigaOM article comes to the same conclusion we did, that truly smart homes need to have integrated cameras, multiple sensors, with high speed image analysis...

SAP, SAS and Big Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP, SAS and Big Data Analytics

Was an early user of SAS, but it has been a number of years now.  A move to Big Data partnership with SAP: Nearly every major server vendor is a SAP HANA partner...
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