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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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Morphological Analysis for Wicked Problem Solving
A morphology is a set of structures that are used to define a category. It is often used in one of my interest areas: Botany. See the image on the right, where...
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Measuring Advertising
From the Penn Customer Analytics Initiative: Innovative Approaches to Measuring Advertising Effectivness. Includes some of my favorite topics, like emotional response...
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Diagnosing Expression
In CACM: On diagnosing Depression. " ... Automatic systems that analyze gestures and facial expressions might improve the challenging task of diagnosing depression...
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Interaction Between Robots and Jobs
Do robots net create or remove jobs? What are the classification of jobs that are lost and won? " ... A new class of industrial robot is appearing. These robots...
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Ericcsson Acquires MS Mediaroom
Interesting because I have worked with variants of the media room idea for years. Much more at the link. " ... Mediaroom is the leading platform for video distribution...
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RFID System Tracks Shopper Flow
In RFID Journal : Have tested a number of related ideas. Notably much work by Herb Sorensen's group that was reported in his excellent book : Inside the Mind...
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Cisco and GMills Open Innovation
How Cisco and General Mills use Open Innovation. In APQC. Views based on physical and virtual site visits. Examples of how to bring in external innovation.
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Solving the Problem of Customer Attacks II
Colleague, correspondent and former co-fellow of mine at SNCR Paul Gillin has written a book on customer attacks using social media. I posted about it once before...
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Dieticians at the Supermarket
In AdAge: Good piece on another example of linking related expertise to the retail interaction. This may be an area where the personal touch could work well....
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JC Penney and Pricing
Economist MJ Perry on the complexity and psychology of pricing. Referencing an NYT article: " ... how the “everyday low pricing” model at J.C. Penney’s seems to...
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Storytelling and Design
Good GigaOhm piece on sortytelling driving product design. Been in a number of design projects that have allowed us to start from simple panel, day in the life...
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Diagramming Sentences and the Power of Morphology
The Language log Blog brings up diagramming sentences. Very familiar and mostly disliked activity in early education in the US. I remember being much intrigued...
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Ray Kurzweil's Life
In the WSJ: The intersection of the life of inventor Ray Kurzweil and health technology. Good to see. He is extrapolating some information about how life expectancy is...
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Agile Organizations
Some good, very general thoughts on agile organizations and management. You are always dealing with changing context, so you have to be ready for it. But can...
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Brain Tracking the VW Commercial
Sands Research provides a video of brain activation from their recent Superbowl ad study. Here the one from award winning ad: The Force by Volkswagen. Agency:...
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Neuromarketing and Buying
Sands Research points me to a largely non technical article on their work in UK's Daily Telegraph. 'Neuromarketing': can science predict what we'll buy?Advertisers...
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Techniques in Sentiment Analysis
In CACM: Excellent overview piece on the subject. The abstract itself has interest: " ... Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining) is defined as the task of finding...
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Paper vs Screens
Sciam writes about the differences between reading on screens vs paper, provides some interesting resources, suggesting that " ... When it comes to intensivelyBut...
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Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation
A connection pointed me to the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation lab. A very broad mix of capability areas. Reminding me of similar work at Procter & Gamble...
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