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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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Google as Dictionary
Further convenience for those that use Google for search: " ... From now on, Google's word search results will include synonyms, sample sentences, and some description...
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Unified Environments for Big Data Analytics
A good piece by correspondent Bill Franks, whose book on the topic I previously reviewed. It addresses some problems I am addressing in a project design now"...
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Pentagon as Silicon Value Incubator
In the NYT: Work by DARPA like the Darpanet and related activities have been happening for a long time. Part of my graduate education was funded by DOD scholarships...
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Online Account Deletion
In Techcrunch, A service that allows you to delete yourself from many common online services. There need to be more ways to clean up your online presence. A...
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A Mobile First View of Data Vizualization
A Bloomberg Video: One of the founders of Roambi talk this strategy. I tried it on the iPhone early on and was impressed what could be done. I like in particular...
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Uptech II Announces Second Round
I am a big supporter of local startups and accelerators. Have have been involved directly in three local startups and advised several others. I see thatUptech...
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Decisions, Data and Predictive Models: Conversations
Letting Data be Your Compass: by Rob F. Walker. Nicely thought out piece on data, decisions and predictive models. Using the word prediction brings your models...
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P&G's CoverGirl and Print Augmentation
Nice to see this happening. Especially taking this beyond the now dated approach of QR Codes. Note the mention of Blippar technology. Which they say is:" ......
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Breakthrough 3D Scanner
In CIO Today: " ... The MakerBot Digitizer consists of a turntable with two lasers and a camera that can scan objects up to 8 inches in size. MakerBot says its...
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Games Matter in the Progress of AI
In IBM Research News: We used a number of game approaches to teach AI. But business decisions are much harder than games. So games are pointers to AI, but rarely...
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Bridging Divide Between Games and Brands
We looked at this very early on, but really want to see it work effectively. I think there is also value for the added dimension of data from social games ......
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3D Printing Support for Windows 3.1
In SlashGear: Another indication of advances supporting remote manufacture. " ... What the team at Microsoft is doing this week is going through how users of...
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New in Decision Analytics Talk
First descriptive slide for my upcoming talk on what's new in Decision Analytics. Comments? More to follow.
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Complex Global Supply Chains
In GigaOM: " ... Thanks to the growth of 3D printing, intelligent robots, and open-source hardware, tomorrow’s supply chains will be faster, smaller, cheaper,...
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Face Recognition Security Pins
I recently reported on the current state of face recognition. The most obvious use of all, why not use it as a pin for security? Too easily mimicked from images...
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Printing Wall Sized Displays
We experimented with using large format displays in retail to create dynamic contexts that could be altered to match categories and times. Displaying on the walls...
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Concise Grounding in Neuroscience
From Mindhacks: by the author of the Neurophilosopy blog, Mo Costandi " ... 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, .... As its title suggests, the book...
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Dynamic Pricing for College Football Seat Prices
Via MJ Perry: In another of his investigations into the power of markets based on price. Notable here are the large number of parameters for the price: ...
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3D Design Delivered by Ponoko
(update)My son pointed me to design page of Kyle A. Koch: " ... a (former) industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture...
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