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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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Predictive Assistants that Take the Initiative
We worked with and visited the nonprofit research group SRI a number of times. They originally had been spun out of Stanford University. They were involved in...
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Travel Industry Big Data
Thomas Davenport on the use of Big Data in the travel industry. A very nontechnical view of the potential, but not necessarily current use of Big Data in the online...
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Emotions Based on Brain Activity
Out of Carnegie Mellon, new research about how brain activities link to emotions. Further research into nonconscious activity of the brain. Depends strongly...
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Microsoft Research Tracks Phone Mood
A fairly detailed article on work MS is doing to track the mood of people using a smartphone. Called MoodScope. Of interest to enterprises that would like another...
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The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
Another good example of time forward looking search. From a company I have followed for some time: Recorded Future. Good understanding of possible futures has...
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MOOC in Progress
Good examples of the MOOC educational process in progress. Will this be our future education process? How will it be layered with more traditional methods? Efficiencies...
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GS1 Standards Page
GS1's newly redesigned Standards Page. With loads of information on the management of standards in many domains. " ... GS1 develops global standards using the...
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Top 5 R Packages
An instructive survey by a data scientist of how they use packages in R, the open source statistics, graphics and modeling environment. (analytics productivity)...
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Specializing in the Visually Impossible
In our innovation center we featured a number of technologies to engage with the consumer in retail. Digital signage was a common application. We invited companies...
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Display as a Service
More on Intel's wireless display aggregating system, dubbed DaaS, or Display as a Service. A friend who knows this space well cautions me that the effort is from...
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On Cloud Interoperability and Portability
In CN Now: Don't know much about the specifics of this topic, but the article provides a good but technical overview. I have been a user of personal and company...
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Teradata Announces Hadoop Portfolio
Newly reviewing: Teradata delivers industry's first flexible, comprehensive Hadoop portfolio Teradata offers a single source for all things Hadoop - new products...
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Limits to the Limits of Growth
I read the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth shortly before entering college. I was much impressed by the details and predictions for the near future. The lesson...
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Linking Many Screens into One
Another advance from Intel Labs. Linking many screens into one large screen. We looked at these kinds of approaches in two areas: For retail display of engaging...
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Brain Scanning for Driver Awareness
Study by Intel using brain scanning to determine driver awareness. A different technique to determine a measure of awareness: " ... Infrared sensors fitted to...
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Games Creating Acheivement
Article about how game dynamics have been used inside companies to engage and prod achievement. Notably mentioned is consulting giant Accenture. And the example...
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Boredom and Creativity
In Fastcompany: Having enough boring, as opposed to focused work hours, leads to more creativity, the article says. Depends on the kind of creativity involved...
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Intel Projects from a Smartphone
In GigaOM: Intel has developed technology to put a multipurpose projector into a phone. Still in the prototype phases. I am involved in a business intelligence...
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Short Non Mathematical Statistics Course
Nice idea, Kaiser Fung from Junkcharts. I have often been in the need of having concise statistics training for managers and executives. "How to do statistics...
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