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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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Crowdsourcing Grocery Shopping
Called Instacart: Personal Shopping remains a narrow market. With crowdsourcing come quality assurance issues. " .... In contrast to the high overhead...
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Being Sought
Seth Godin pens a short item item being found versus being sought and how this is of particular interest in a mobile and social world.
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Augmented Reality Sandboxes
Sandbox as a UI. We did something related, but without sand. Touch interface. Created a sandbox workbench which implemented a retail design. This allowed...
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Japanese Startup Culture
In FastCompany: Never involved with Japan startup culture, but have a number of times worked with their innovation world. Which I thought was strong, but had a"...
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Types of Analytics
Yet another view of categories of analytics, here Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive. Adding diagnostic, which I have not typically added to...
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Videos for Learning R
Two popular videos from Stanford, for learning the statistical environment R. Reviewing now. Via Star Bridge Partners.
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Mobile Payments, NFC and Apple
We carefully tracked the emergence of the short range radio frequency approach called NFC, to enable smart phone mobile payments. In Adage, speculation that Apple...
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Personal Care Brands and Mobile
In Mobile Marketing: " ... Personal-care industry slow to embrace mobile-optimized selling --- Manufacturers of personal care products are opting for partnerships...
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Future of Advertising: Pay per Gaze
Paying per gaze, Paying per emotion, is it the future of advertising. Not impossible, but will detecting this kind of behavioral data be considered intrusive?
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Scoping the Digital Divide
Pew Statistics on US access to the Internet. 20% of US adults have no access. But is that fair since most US libraries do have public connections to the net? Plus...
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The Book on Intelligent Data Analysis
This book was brought to my attention during our artificial intelligence days. It has gone through another edition since I taught from it. Profited from its...
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Games Engaging Customers
In Innovation Excellence: About game dynamics engaging your customers. Includes a number of examples I had not heard of. Also makes an often forgotten point...
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Gamification and Sales
An example of using Gamification for sales support. " .... created a remote online customer sales chat platform that implements gamification to encourage remote...
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Future of Laundry
Though it may seem an odd topic for here, have for a long time followed innovations in the process of doing the laundry. Despite it seeming a very mundane thing...
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Air Interfaces
In GigaOM: Saw something similar at graphics show. Required some hard to manage setup, but was impressively mysterious. But that example was display only andDisplair...
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Glass App Store
In Mashable: A Google Glass App store is planned by next year. This will be very useful indication of exactly how serious developers for this new computing format...
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Small Data Becoming Big Data
In SmartData Collective, By Mark van Rijmenam" ... small data can become big data by cleverly combining various data sets with different data formats; Combine weather...
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Robotic Cleaning
In IEEE Spectrum: As might be expected we avidly explored the future of cleaning. In particular we examined robotic approaches. Watching development and commercialization...
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Crowdsourcing Grading
I remember being part of a group that did this long before it was called crowd sourcing, unofficially and informally checking assignments and providing help within...
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