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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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Is Innovation no Longer Driving Growth?
In the Economist: A pessimistic view that is challenged. With some useful statistics along the way. " ... Has the world run out of ideas? ... Some economists...
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Charmin Site and US Currency
A popular legal blog takes a look at the 'Charmin Corporate Site', and makes comments about the symbolism between basic Charmin functionality and currency. Is this...
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Singularity Rising
Moore's law and Artificial Intelligence. What does it mean to be 'smart' for machines? A new book: Singularity Rising. describes the problem. What will the...
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Walgreen's Mobile Strategies
An overview of what Walgreen is doing and experimenting with. I have followed them for some time and their implementation is very good. Includes mention of Foursquare...
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Blaming the Dewey Decimal Innovation Problem
A good piece in Fast Company about how innovation can go wrong based on the infrastructure and culture that it exists in. We used this example of classification...
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Hotspex
Recently met with Shane Skillen of Toronto based Hotspex. Also a link to some of their work in 2012.Hotspex delivers provocative marketing research insights that...
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Neuromarketing at the NRF
I see that Sands Research has a number of neuromarketing based activities and information pointers for the upcoming NRF meeting on January 13- 15 NYC. More ...
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Disney's RFID Wristbands
Disney is planning to use opt-in RFID wristbands to replace ticketing and other behavioral tracking interactions in its parks. Reported on here in Computerworld...
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Manufacturing the Future
Excellent report from McKinsey on the future of manufacturing. While many think of manufacturing as an old line industry, it is still a key method to get things...
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GM and Ford Asking for Apps
In Technology Review The concept of an App takes another step forward: " ... GM and Ford Open Up Their Vehicles to App DevelopersSome car apps will mirror mobile...
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Rebirth of the PC
We are seeing the rebirth of the PC, says Intel CTO Justin Rattner at the CES meeting. I agree, these are heady times, it more than just about functional computing...
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UC in Top 20 of Big Data Analytics Schools
Via Jeff Camm Dean at the OBAIS program of the University of Cincinnati who reports that " ... our MS Business Analytics program is listed in Information Week...
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Drop a Cam into the Network
Brought to my attention via CES: Dropcam. A way to quickly and inexpensively drop a camera into a Wifi network. And export the video to the cloud for recording...
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Enterprise and Consumer IT
Report on the crossover treatment between consumer and enterprise information technology, as presented in the CES conference. IT will have to worry about the increasingly...
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Forrester on SAP Big Data Predictive Analytics
An SAP press release that presents their current offerings and work in the space. " ... today announced that it has been ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as a...
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Year of the Internet of Things
From Technology Review: Some thoughts about the internet of things. Everything tagged and tracked. Is that day finally here?
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Library of Congress Saves Tweets
As mentioned previously the US Library of Congress is starting to save tweets. Now over 500 million a day are being archived. Researchers are already asking...
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OSU, Allostatix Link to Measure Health
Some time ago I mentioned Allostatix, a company that has developed a means to construct an overall health measure, based on what is called the allostatic load, See...
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Price Matching Online
In TheVerge: Target says they will start price-matching Amazon year round. As an attempt in part to defer losses to to show rooming activities of mobile enabled...
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