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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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Structure of the Social Web
eCairn points to a video of the structure of the social web, and the value of using that infrastructure. Instructive. We visited the Santa Fe Institute around...
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Google Spectacles Arriving
The long anticipated Google Glass head mounted displays are finally on the horizon with events being held for developers. Looking at this for a client. In Fast...
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Teaching Human Language to Computers
A talk with futurist Ray Kurzweil, now with Google, on a favorite topic. I emphasize the task of 'teaching', rather than just programming. And understanding...
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A Concept Map about Mapping
A map to describe mapping methods. A frequently used approach in our enterprise, I still use the idea often in consulting, now nicely facilitated by portable tablets...
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PC Dominance Over
Gartner makes some comments on this and it is covered in Computerworld. Not unexpected. My own observation over the holidays in the home , and waiting in airports...
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Book Generation
In ReadwriteWeb: More detail on Phil Parker's econometric book generation algorithms. That are said to be generating millons of books that are sold on Amazon....
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Shadow IT
In CIO Dashboard: A term I had not specifically heard of. Though the world of Bring your own device (BYOD) has been in action for some time. A survey of CIOs...
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Mindmeld
Brought to my attention from Expectlabs.com. Their system called MindMeld, initially designed to be delivered to the iPad, that will monitor conversations and...
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What Should we be Worried about?
What scientific issues should be we worried about? The Edge asked for contributions and received these suggestions, from well known scientists in many fields.
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Hack the Kitchen?
In Mashable: Campbell Soup offers prize to develop meal planning App. I like the idea of delivering suggestions based one taste, meal history, budget, time available...
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Midsize Business in the Cloud
IBM Tools helping midsize businesses work in the cloud. An article brought to my attention from Information Management. " ... IBM unveiled social business software...
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UC Data Visualization Day
Reading with pleasure Stephen Few's book "Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten", Second Edition. It was good to see that Stephen FewData...
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Securing the Internet of Things
In Wired: We are looking forward to leveraging the data generated by the internet of things. New trasparency in supply chain analysis, social behavior and transactional...
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HP's Big Data Analytics
Attending this on Wednesday at 9 AM in Cincinnati. More information. Lets meet there. " ... Are you interested in gaining insight into your business fasterThis...
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Social Big Data
Gib Bassett provides a note by Mark Zielinski on the value of big data social data. " ... Since late 2011, the market research industry and market research technology...
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More Networked Refrigerators
At CES, Samsung once again pushes the smart refrigerator, " ... Technology has helped solve many problems for us. We make phone calls and read emails from wherever...
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Smartphones as Lifephones
In the NYT: Smartphones as life's remote controls. Sufficient and increasingly necessary to make efficient decisions. And are becoming able to control our world...
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Pinning Criminals
An example of using Pinterest to place pictures of wanted criminals and provide other policing information. Apparently this has been useful. Have looked at related...
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Embedded Household Displays
A roundup by Engadget from CES about how technology would be embedded in the future. Samsung says screens in household appliances. I saw predictions of this as...
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