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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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Innovation in Consumer Goods Companies
In CGT: What consumer goods companies are doing for innovation: " ... What do Nestlé, Campbell Soup Company and General Mills all have in common? They all beat...
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IBM In-Store Image Recognition App
In PopAI: IBM Research steering shoppers in the store and combatting showrooming. In the early days of our retail innovation center we worked with IBM image recognition...
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Cisco Pushes Internet of Everything
Cisco putting value on the Internet of everything. Imagine everything is tagged and communicating on the net. And smart too.
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Causes of Innovation Failure
In Innovation Excellence: Some fairly obvious, but worth reviewing to understand the process.
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Real Air Travel Costs
M J Perry writes that flight travel cost per mile has decreased 50% since 1980. Interesting statistics and very surprising. Some of the commenters suggest that...
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New Sim City
A new version of SimCity is coming out tomorrow to considerable enthusiasm. SimCity opened the eyes of a number of executives to the use of simulation when it...
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Gamification and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: How gamification influences open innovation. Two favorite topics with spending numbers and forecasts. We used gamification to innovate...
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The Stall at Disney's Tomorrowland
I have grown up around both personal and job related visits to Disney. So this review of Tomorrow Land hit home. Seen it since the late 60s. Exactly what I had...
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Disfluency
In The Edge: Why do simple cues so influence what we perceive? Reminds me of Semiotics, which is also a way to look at how cues change our view of the world, recently...
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Ultrasound on Smartphones and Tablets
More sensor developments we need to watch. Directly how practical and accurate remains to be seen. " ... Qualcomm, in the fourth quarter of 2012, acquired the...
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ZoomData
Real time data visualization on the iPad: Press release. " ... Zoomdata makes it easy for data administrators to quickly connect its stream-processing engine...
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SlateUp: A New Knowledge Community
Just brought to my attention: SlateUp. More to follow. Membership now by invitation to .edu accounts. Check out the site for more information. SponsoredSlateUp...
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Towards an Augmediated Life
The new ideas that have been pushed forward for Google Glass look very similar to ideas that have presented for Augmented Reality (AR), while the AR approachesmore...
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Teach Robots Lateral Thinking
From MIT News: An area we examined. How do you teach a help mate robot ways to get around their physical limitations? A floor sweeping robot can trade timewith...
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A Cloud Intrusion
An example of a cloud security issue with the popular package Evernote, which I have used for some time. Good example which led me to refresh my understandinghashing...
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Putting a Value on Data
This question came to mind during a meeting this week. Here a good overview. To me it is first how the data can be used today to improve decision process.......
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Watson in College
In GigaOM: more steps towards a revolution in AI? How do you learn and collaborate like humans? Our own journey into AI used similar methods, but the large"...
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How Search Works
From Google, a mostly visual description of how search works. From algorithms to answers. No algorithm details, and all of this would be known by anyone who has...
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Stats on Interest in Statistics
The Numbers Guy in the WSJ comments on the increasing interest in statistics as a field of study. Since statistics is the underlying foundation of analytics, it...
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