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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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VisiRule: Sharable Know How
I am repeating part of a post from last year below, based on my reexamination of expert systems style applications:" ... expert systems to understand and improve...
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Tiny Robotic Recon Drones in Industry
The grist of many a science fiction story, tiny flying robotics that can capture information. Studied these for information capture tasks in remote plant and warehouse...
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Apple Indoor GPS System
A general description, and praise for their indoor location system plan. I was heavily involved in these kinds of approaches for retail use and tested several"...
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When Core Values are Strategic
Received via the P&G Alumni Network, to be read, their description below.When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter & Gamble Transformed Leadership...
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Retailers and Private Label Packaging
In Foodprocessing: " ... As retailers put more emphasis on private-label products, they are relying on packaging that sets their merchandise apart, instead of mimicking...
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Food Inflation in US
A piece by MJ Perry on Food Inflation and Prices in the US. Inflation in food has been down considerably since the 70s. Further instructive statistics about food...
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Army Visualization
The US army / SAIC is using Tableau for Data visualization. This appears to be a descriptive visualization, as opposed to an analytic example " ... "We have...
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Project10X: Semantic Research
Brought to my attention. Semantic analysis work is always of interest. " .... Mills Davis is founder and managing director of Project10X — a research consultancy...
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GEPhi Graph Visualization for Exploratory Data Analysis
This method was brought to my attention my a colleague. We had looked at it some time ago and it has come back as a possible exploratory solution.The Open Graph...
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On the Movement of Queues
In Mind Hacks: Why the other line in a queueing situation always moves faster than yours. A good example of how perception beats out rational thought. In mywith...
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Portfolio as Innovation Dashboard
In Innovation Excellence: We used exactly this approach in the enterprise new product development world. Its very useful if you have many competing efforts" ....
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Smarter Cashless Vending Machines
Cashless Vending machines are now smarter. We examined machines like this in Japan that could adapt to supply chain and demand problems.
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Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Three-part Series on Engaging Social and Mobile Consumers...
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Big Data and IBM
Not unexpected view and direction by IBM. Riding the hype wave, with their own considerable analytics resources. Those put together can provide a formidable capability...
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SAP Buying KXEN
SAP buys a fairly well known predictive analytics company, KXEN. Have followed SAP in the past with its other related acquisitions, like Khimetrics in 2005. ...
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Remembering Douglas Engelbart
Ted Talks on his visionary work." ... One of the pioneers of the Internet and graphic user interfaces, Engelbart is perhaps best known for inventing the computer...
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The Influence of Showrooming
Lots of fears regarding the influence of 'showrooming' in driving place of purchase ..." ... But a study released Thursday from Columbia Business School and loyalty...
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Macy's Using Data and Showing Restraint
From the D2 Conference in Cincinnati via AdAdge: " ... Macy's sees plenty of value in data-driven marketing and believes consumers should hear more from marketers...
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Tableau 8 Guide
Recently released: Tableau 8: The Official Guide by George Peck I am in the midst of a project that specifies this, and searched for several fairly obscure things...
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