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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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Simplified Programming for Expertise
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have been proposed for years to bring the capability of computer programming to the non computing domain expert. By formulatingComputerWorld...
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Predicting Illness
In New Scientist: Here using data that comes from Twitter. I mentioned worked we did some years ago that used over the counter sales data. Twitter data is probably...
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Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Mobile Talks
In the latest Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative newsletter there are a number of videos from a recent conference that deal with mobile customer behavior. Here...
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Offshoring and Innovation
In CIO: Can off shoring inhibit innovation? Only if it is poorly integrated with other corporate missions.
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In Hospital Doctor Bedside Robotics
In Computerworld: A good overview of the development of telemedicine using robotics from iRobot. Includes images of how this would be implemented. I suggest...
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Less Groupthink
The broad concept of 'brainstorming', beloved by big business for many decades, has taken a hit recently as creating group think pablum that was not worth the effort...
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Making Wearable Tech Wearable
From Artefactgroup: A good overview of the subject. When we explored this we discovered that the devices were not very wearable in the context of performing...
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Fluid Catalogs
Are we ready for shopping in a post Pinterest world? Fluid HTML5 layouts replace the simulated shelf layout in old online retail. More here. Better I think...
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Digitizing Historical Maps
An interesting example of the digitization of some 200,000 historical maps, which will ultimately give them much larger distribution and preserve them for the...
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Sociologically Inspired Technology
In the Edge: Looking at how people and animals socially interact and applying that organization more broadly. Akin to agent-based simulation methods we applied...
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Walgreen's Mobile Store Map
Walgreen's maps every store with a mobile application, but does not communicate it very well, writes Storefrontbacktalk. We worked extensively with store mapping...
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LandSat at 40
LandSat imagery was the first example we saw of the value of images from space for business. We examined them for use in forest management for the pulp industry...
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Holistic Virtualization
Computerworld special edition on holistic virtualization. Increasingly important for the integration of analytics. Exploring.
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Noise and Blank Display Ads
Former colleague Ted McConnell, exec VP at the Advertising Research Foundation, writes about the conundrum of blank display ads getting an impressive number of...
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Biases are Running Rampant
We discovered in the very early days of the Web that the increasing access to more information made it very easy to feed your own biases. Ordinary employeesSteve...
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Future of Manufacturing is in Amerca
Article quoted in length by MJ Perry. Saying that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence along with remote manufacture through 3D printing will drive...
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Smartphones Have Replaced ...
In Technology Review: What smartphones have replaced. I don't like lists for their own sake but I did notice the mention of a shopping list, which we studied...
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Nielsen and Watermarks
Engadget reports on a new technology to gather information about local viewing activity via set-top boxes. More information and press release at the link. Particularly...
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OODA Loop
Nice piece on the history and implementation of John Boyd's OODA Loop.... The OODA Loop describes how to make decisions and act on them using a four-stage model...
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