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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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Causes of World Death
A good dynamic visualization of this data in Tableau public, emphasizing a treemap visualization and supporting bar charts. I think this could be used for many...
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Illusions of Cognition in Computing
Interesting Forrester piece: In fact all AI and expertise based systems appear to be cognitive. How is this an illusion? In fact in our own experiments with...
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Management Tools and Trends 2013
A look at the year 2013: From Darrell Rigby, my correspondent at Bain & Company. " .... Global executives who participated in Bain & Company's 14th Management...
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Watson as a Customer Service Agent
In Forbes: Once your have built an 'intelligent' knowledge structure like Watson, all sorts of advisory applications come to mind. In the link it is positioned...
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A Look at Regulatory Burdens
A number of studies examine this. MJ Perry concludes that regulatory costs are the second highest component of a US family's cost.
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Data in that Toothbrush
In Adage: More internet of things linked with consumer behavior plays: " ... Imagine for a second that you could interview a product. How often is it being used...
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Mobile BI Tools
I am in the midst of exploring mobile BI on tablets. It is increasingly being specified that the solutions will be mobile. That adds a number of challenges. ...
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Footprint App Again
I see that Kevin Karakotsios has made his Footprint USA App free for a limited time only. Worth a look. I really like the style of his simulation based methods...
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Software Patents
In the WSJ: On software patents. A survey and debate on the topic. The patent system, like the copyright laws, are broken and impede innovation. Process...
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One Planet Living on a Footprint App
Long time correspondent Ken Karakotsios has posted an excellent case study for the use of his Footprint USA App. I mentioned it previously and have been exploring...
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Twining Things Together
Good Wired Piece about Twine, an experimental capability that allows you to link together sensors in your hope to create an Internet of things. Inexpensive and...
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So What is Tumblr?
About to be sold to Yahoo. I was asked to look at it as a microblogging tool a few years ago. A microblog is an easy to use way to write blog postsTumblr adds...
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The Modern Marketer
Former colleague Dave Knox, writes in his Hard Knox Life blog about the modern marketer, where he includes a whimsical infographic illustrating how the modern marketer...
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BIg Data and Market Rsearch
In Innovation Excellence: It is natural to think about how data measuring aggregate human behavior is gathered. Its done all the time. That data is large, varied...
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Why Big Customers want Quantum Computing
In the BBC: Notably the Pentagon and Google. This article does a good job of saying why this will ultimately be important. Once again D-Wave is complimented...
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Uploading Brains
We don't yet understand the nature of consciousness, or the precise nature of how things are stored in our brains. Yet many are suggesting we can do a download...
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Decreasing Time to Insight
In Information Management: I agree that decreasing time in coming to a conclusion matters. In particular if you are selecting a promotion for mobile delivery....
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Der Spiegel on Numbers
Der Spiegel, German news magazine, has a readable piece, in English, on big data and its use for forward looking predictive analytics. Read it here. Fairly good...
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Placebo App on Smartphone
In Mashable: The placebo effect has been known for a long time. Is there a way to use interaction with a smartphone to produce a similar effect? And can that...
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