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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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Optimizing Business Process
Rexamining a company, Charlotte Software Systems. We had worked with their CEO Kevin Kostuik, when he and other people there worked with former component BiosGroup...
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More Easily Used Data Please
GigaOM points to the fact that if we had more easily used data, we would not need more data scientists. Scientists are useful, but we need the leverage of intelligent...
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Passport Updates to Transform Shopping
Will Apple passport updates that will include NFC wireless transform shopping? In Mashable." ... A newly discovered patent application hints that Apple is planning...
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Photo Integration
Modeling People and places from collections of online photos. Variants of this idea have been tried before, but this approach takes a broader view. A good example...
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Beyond Hadoop
In CACM: Interesting thoughts on technical big data examples and solutions. Like this: " ...When a new user visits the online music service Pandora and selects...
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Twitter Does not Self Correct
Some research is described in GigaOm. My own observations about Twitter:Its all about Memes. We believe what we want to. The evidence of increasing amounts of...
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Gamification for Serious Business
In Ecommerce Times: A pretty broad view of what gamification means. Is it just Loyalty points? And sharing their level? It is a useful way to think about the...
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Windows 8
About to dive into a project using Windows 8. I have been researching its use. Wharton takes a look.
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Wolfram Alpha Offers : Predictive Interfaces
I see that Wolfram Research has some new discounted ways to purchase Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha that are available through December 31. See more here. Also...
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Coursera Course: Data Analysis in R
What looks to be a useful free course, emphasizing biostatistics, in Coursera, starting January 22. " ... This course will focus on how to plan, carry out, and...
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Logistics in 2012 and Beyond
Useful predictive commentary on the upcoming changes in logistics and related context and technologies. Via Fabrizio Brasca is vice president, global logistics...
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How the Internet is Changing English
On the BBC: " ... Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. ... " . Changing...
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Mapping Big Data in the US over Time
RecordedFuture maps the location of big data efforts in the US in the coming years. In their Blog. Also provides access to the data it used in their unique future...
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Data Science as Storytelling
Is data science storytelling? Yes, in the sense that everything that is analytical tells a narrative story. It must fit into some sort of preexisting narrative...
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Boosting Productivity with Social Media
In the HBR Blogs: A video interview with Alexandra Samuel. Some interesting points here. Yes, I believe this can be done, selectively. I do not yet believeVision...
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Mobile Ads Fail
In AdAge: Why Mobile Ads Still Fail. Interesting look into the industry and related statistics. Is it because we just don't want them on our phone?
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On Precise Innovation Terminology
Having better terminology for innovation, like it is for many things, makes lots of sense. I find myself often getting into debates about analytics based on this...
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Oak Ridge Visualization
A short piece on the use of visualization methods at Oak Ridge Labs. Using multiple projectors and images for analytics. Working on a project now that includes...
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Five Senses for the Smart Phone
Looking forward to this development. Cognitive computing: IBM wants to give the smartphone 5 senses. " ... IBM believes technology's future lies in cognitive...
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