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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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Robots Influencing Jobs
In IEEE Spectrum: How will robots effect the of market of 2045? An interview. " ... Automation has displaced a lot of workers in the last 50 years, and it...
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Coke War Room in Action
In Ad Age: A look at the Coke war room during the Super Bowl. Quite an interesting case of the real time, manual manipulation of a digital event. What kind of...
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Stream Browsers Introduce Time Dimension
Yale prof David Gelernter on the 'Stream Browser'. " ... Gelernter recently predicted the end of current Web and search technology as the focus shifts from a space...
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Big Data and Operational Intelligence
In Inside Analysis: The end game of all analytics, Big Data or otherwise, should be the way that it plugs into decision making. If you don't know how you make...
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Superbowl Ads
Ad Age links to all the 2013 super bowl ads in one spot. Convenient for review purposes.
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Router Details you Don't Need
Mashable on how a Router Works. Its fun to see the internal details of things we use every day and take for granted. And in this case there is history too, about...
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Data Company Emerges from Stanford Math
In BusinessWeek:With today’s powerful data analysis systems, users gather a ton of information—a breakdown of Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) sales in the U.S. or things...
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Biological Simulation
In CACM: New progress in sources of data, and simulation analytics, and better and more complete models of biological systems are leading to better simulated systems...
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Questions about Conversations with a System
My thoughts and questions prompted by an article today In the NYT: As alert systems and devices start having extended conversations with us, can we expect them...
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Smart Cities Critique
Think of Smart Cities as extremely complex version of process control. With the added complexity of a mix of difficult to predict people. It also reminds me of...
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Failed Resource Predictions
Some examples of failed resource availability projections. In many cases some huge misses despite the apparent sophistication of the models. Forecasting models...
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Building Better Products
Thoughtful piece in GigaOM: About the process of coming up with new products and extensions. Starting with knowing what has been done before. This article...
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What Search Graph Means to Retail
What Facebook Search Graph Means to Retail. In POPAI: " " ... Basically, the bigger a brand’s fan base and, more importantly, the more active they are, the more...
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Data Waves for Fast Device Communication
New to me in New Scientist: " ... This type of electromagnetic wave stays at the interface between the surface of an object and the air, rather than travelling...
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P&G Acquires Minority Stake in Verix
Reported about " ... Verix, Inc., a designer and developer of enterprise performance management and analytics solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. ... ".Verix...
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Reducing MapReduce
Vincent Granville on What MapReduce can't do. " ... We discuss here a large class of big data problems where MapReduce can't be used - not in a straightforward...
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Memory Irrelevance and Tagging
Oliver Sacks, in the NRB on the emergence of memory, and the curious way that too many connections between irrelevant items in our memory can be a problem. And...
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Facebook Pays Attention to CPG Marketing
In Adage: Imagine the potential data generated here. " ... Facebook held its first CPG Summit Jan. 17, and has hired Erin Hunter, formerly of Procter & Gamble,...
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WiFi Thermostats
In Technology Review: An update and overview on an obvious idea. We will see more about this. And of course the objections to one more erosion of our privacy...
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