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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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Gauging Facebook Measurement
In Adage: " ... As Facebook urges big advertisers to boost their spending, its measurement team is playing an increasingly prominent role, trying to articulate...
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Mining Medical Records
A view with data visualizations. In particular, linking unexpected associations. " ... Big data analytics have enabled researchers at the Massachusetts Institute...
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Legacy and Future of Television
With it go away soon? In Harvard Business blogs. Probably not, the blog suggests there will be a number of disruptions and even transformations. But the broad...
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On the Language of Data Science
Useful definitions, also the reminder that Data Science is not only about the data, but also the analytics that will be used with the data, and the business processes...
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Boosting Research Productivity
With zResearch, via Zakta, who I have talked to a number of times. A way to curate research via search. Aiming to add social interaction and collaboration to...
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Martian Diaries
The Curiosity blog. A background and long interest in astrophysics has me watching this closely. See also the mission site.
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Predictive is Smarter
Writes Christopher Conradi in Smarter Planet. Predictive maintenance is nothing new. We have done it in manufacturing for many years. What is new is the ability...
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Digital Stethoscope
The iconic medical sensor the stethoscope is attached to a smartphone and connected to the cloud for a specific diagnosis task, finding children's pneumonia worldwide...
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Consumers Ready for Mobile Payments?
Are consumers ready? When we first examined the problem it was clear they were not ready. Now things have changed, and within only a few years many will be using...
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Blog Experimentation
This blog has been around for a very long time. Once a mirror for a blog within a large enterprise. Now in the midst of experimenting with changes in its use...
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And Further: Why the @ Sign?
The Smithsonian looks at other needs we did not know we had. Here the emergence of the @ sign. The simple drawing of a concept. Once a rarely used key on a typewriter...
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Simplifying Innovation
Good thoughts on simplification of innovation in Innovation excellence. Proposed by John Brooker, inspired by an incident with bicycle gears, a " ... three...
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Invention of Deodorant
Out of the Smithsonian Magazine: On the invention of deodorant. The classic history of the marketing of solutions we did not completely understand that we had...
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Posing Big Data Questions
We see many of them these these days. Information Week looks at the needs for resources to solve these problems. Data scientists and tools are useful to have...
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Online vs Bricks
Some interesting notes about the difference between online and in-store retail. These are mostly obvious conclusions, but would be useful to pass along to the...
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Leader as Artist
In the HBR Blog: I am a believer in the quantification of of business, but this description of leader as artist is quite insightful. Think further of how the...
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Digital Boot Camp Online
Colleague Krista Neher's Digital boot camp is now available online. " ... The popular and top-rated Social Media Boot Camp is now available online! Learn social...
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Deals via Facial Recogition
In CWorld: A piece on Facedeals. " ... The system, dubbed Facedeals, uses cameras placed at the doors of participating stores and facial recognition software....
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IEEE Computing Now Expands
I am informed:New, expanded, IEEE Computer Society Computing Now website will be live on Friday, August 24, 2012The newly designed, Computing Now website (computingnow...
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