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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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Spreadsheet Day is Today
A correspondent reports that today is spreadsheet day. " ... in honour of the date that VisiCalc was first shipped, way back in 1979. ... " I used to teach Visicalc...
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Virtualization in CPG, Current and Future
In Progressive Grocer: Good overview of virtualization in the Consumer Package Goods (CPG) industry. Aisles, stores, shoppers and even profit landscapes can be...
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Insurance Companies Love the Quantified Car
As you might expect. All analytical methods, especially those that seek to predict, are by their nature data hungry. Sensors can feed those techniques to lead...
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Subconscious Mistakes We Make
In Fastcompany: Very often seen in the enterprise. Even from very smart people. The confirmation bias, mentioned first, is a common mistake researchers make....
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Amazon Ships from Inside P&G
Not surprising, this has now been going on for years. Still not enough volume to upset Wal-Mart? " ... Amazon has placed its workers in seven Procter & Gamble...
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Radical New Teaching Method?
Aspects of AI inspired learning theories. Heavily technology driven. Now further enabled by MOOC. A kind of self organizing approach that assumes that children...
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Shelf Retail Surveillance
In the news today. Word that a major CPG manufacturing conglomerate, Mondelez International, is expressing an interest in using cameras on store shelves to gather...
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October Shopper Marketing
Always interesting online Mag. Sign up. Via Steve Frenda" ... The October issue of Shopper Marketing is a cause for celebration for those of us at the Institute...
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Tom Malone and the MIT Cognitive Center
We worked with Tom Malone some time ago. He is now director of the MIT Cognitive center. A push forward to AI, long ago started at MIT, that then stalled for aFrom...
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Divorcing Your Job
Steve King in his Small Business Labs, points me to this blog by Ayelet Baron about your relationship with your employment. Nicely done view of jobs and our dealing...
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Bring Your Own Devices
In the APQC Blog: Getting prepared for BYOD. A good overview. Gartner predicts that half of organizations will move to a mandatory bring your own device (BYOD)...
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Glue: Stick Out From the Crowd
Stick out from the Crowd: " ... Glue is a unique tool that enables you to present yourself in a complete, compelling, and informative way. .. " Reexamining this...
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Decision Support Intuition
In the Decision Support Blog: A new App that aims to make your intuition better. Skeptical of that, but the thought to take decision making beyond the rationally...
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Big Data not a Holy Grail
Messy, says an article in Forbes. The dangers to privacy, and the buy-in to magical powers to solve problems. Like any new tool, be cautious about the hype, and...
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Cloud Prediction and Text
In GigaOM Turing prediction engines towards text. The integration of text and numeric analytcs is rare. " ... Machine learning startup BigML now supports...
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Supermarket Apps Working
I had a conversation with someone a few weeks ago about the difference in engagement quality between loyalty cards and store smartphone apps. We also discussed...
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Identifying Your Phone in Seconds
In SF Gate: Their accelerometer identifies smartphones in seconds. Novel approach, privacy implications? "... The accelerometer enables, among other things,...
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Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel
Recently joined the Ohio DOE Education Advisory Panel. Which introduced me to the executive network of MBA Research. A " .... Not-for-profit, research-based support...
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Cisco and the Internet of Everything
Cisco moves forward again. And a link to their study. " ... Mobile? Wearables? Small change. For several years, Cisco has been thinking bigger, when the Internet...
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