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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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Smellit: Remotely Generating Smells
The remote digital delivery of smells and even fragrances was something we experimented with. The intention was to be able to dial up an aroma at the shelf and...
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Mindsign and 3D Ads
In ReadWriteWeb:Mindsign uses fMRI to analyze Cooliris ads with neuromarketing methods. So what do they get from it?
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Retailer Innovation in China
MJ Perry about Innovation in China. Where he quotes: WSJ Asia Technology article "China Frets: Innovators Stymied Here" ... How likely is it? Our own experience...
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Hanlon's Razor
Some reading reminded me of the principle of Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ... Though I recall this...
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Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?
In the Sunday NYT. A breezy look at those old style sources of more information. I like the presence of more information. I prefer hyperlinks, but they only...
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InferX
I had the opportunity to talk to InferX yesterday. A company that uses distributed data mining techniques to work on business analysis and fraud problems. From...
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On Indoor GPS
I looked at this topic for location applications in retail, and I see this article in Emerging Technology on a number of vendors in the area. I know there areZuluTime...
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Business of Certainty
In Fast Company:" ... Foresight Is 20/20: Predictive Analytics And The Business Of Certainty ... Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple...
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ThinkVine and Marketing Mix Modeling
Local company ThinkVine, who I worked with in the Enterprise, sends along this press release on marketing mix technologies. Excellent work. Note the mentionThinkVine...
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Priming With Lies
In MindHacks, the post mentions facial coding, which we experimented with: A beautifully recursive study has shown that viewing an episode of the psychology ofLie...
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Nielsen Relates Buzz to TV Ratings
An interesting result. Yet not overly surprising to me. People who have lots of spare time? " ... Today Nielsen, the venerable measurement service, shed light...
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Kodak Disrupted
Less than a decade ago we visited Kodak R&D and were impressed by their work with digital camera capabilities. It looked like they were making the transitionA...
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Oracle Big Data Analytics Appliance
Continued competition, here from Oracle, to produce high speed appliances for big data. Shows the increasing need for business intelligence platforms. Note the...
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Cheapest Tablet
I followed the hundred dollar laptop project for years. Now we have the $35 tablet. Designed for the rural poor in India. " ... The computer, called Aakash, or...
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Visual Teams Book
See a report on correspondent David Sibbet's new book: Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance. To be released by October...
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Actionable Data in Mobile Apps
An article for developers about how to get data from mobile Apps. But also gives the non-developer an indication of what is there. Mentions of a number of...
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Why Creative Ideas are Rejected
In CACM: Why creative ideas are rejected, and what you can do about it. A short article with some good thoughts.
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Web Services Choreographies
This concept was new to me. An outline article currently in Computing Now: " ... researchers have looked at service composition from two complementary pointsRelated...
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Windows in Your Stuff
In ReadWriteWeb on Are You Ready for Windows in Your Things? " ... Microsoft is launching exactly that - a kind of consumer awareness campaign around the emergence...
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