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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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What Big Data Means
Bob Inmon provides a useful Venn diagram to describe what Big Data is and how it relates to other kinds of data. Text is certainly the most important part of unstructured...
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Collaboration with Lists and Search
In CWorld: Short view on the continued evolution of collaboration software. Its acceptance within the enterprise. As they say there, this started with a very...
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Gary Cokins on EPM Analytics
A piece that overviews some of Gary Cokin's view on analytics. Have read and passed a few of his columns. Well done. He talks about Enterprise Performance Management...
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Indoor Positioning and Navigation
An important approach for retail navigation applications. We studied this for a number of inventory and checkout applications. Also in conjunction with tagging...
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Wisee Body Gesture Recognition
A UK correspondent sends along a BBC article on the use of Wifi for gesture recognition. We explored how gestures might be used in the store aisle. The simpler...
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FTC Looks at Internet of Things
An upcoming FTC workshop that looks to be of interest. The emphasis in consumer applications: " ... The workshop aims to help the FTC get to grips with this...
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On Exiting Unprofitable Businesses
In the HBR: A video. This is fundamental. I would further ask: How can your predict when a business is declining fundamentally? " ... Rita Gunther McGrath...
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Handwashing Compliance Gamification
A good example of the use of gamification to change employee behavior. Also in this article, the use of the term 'engagement science' whose definition is obvious...
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Wearable Existance
Thad Starner, wearable computing pioneer, who we talked to regarding wearable computing in manufacturing settings, his comments on the emergence of wearable computing...
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COBOL is still here
The early programming language COBOL is still here and used in many key systems. I was last informed of that twenty years ago during an audit of important systems...
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Self Service Business Intelligence
Thoughts on the concept of self-service business intelligence. True there are many issues to think about, like the use of standards, security and efficiency. Despite...
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CID Topic Analyst
Brought to my attention, and demonstrated to me today, a product called CID Topic Analyst A means to semantically analyze text and classify its structure for applications...
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Mobile Ads as Betrayal
In Adage: Yes, I feel this way, there is something more personal about mobile. But at the end of the day, someone has to pay.
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ShopperTrak Buys RapidBlue
We tested Shoppertrak extensively in laboratory and live retail environments. A very simple, useful systems for in store behavior analysis. This combination is...
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Innovation as Usual: The Book
Newly brought to my attention. Unread as yet, but on the stack. Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller, Thomas Wedell...
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Internet Trends
Mary Meeker's compendium of internet statistics is one that I remember reading every year. Admit I have not for a few years. But it remains a rich assortmentfrom...
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Escaping Innovation Brainstorm
Video: Escaping from the brainstorm in Innovation. In the HBR. " ... Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, coauthor of Innovation as Usual, explains how to drive innovation...
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
In Technology Review: A point I often make in talks I give, the smart phone is a cheap, ubiquitous device that spews data, and thus useful patterns to be detected...
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Wal-Mart Stocks with Neon Dots
In Bloomberg: Wal-Mart brings in an outside auditor who uses Neon green dots to mark stocking outages. Hmmm ... this sounds like the Hawthorne effect. Workers...
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