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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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MindBox
Met today with Jeff Dyck of Mindbox Studios. They have done some very interesting things, including some intriguing work with nonprofits. Emphasis on symbolic...
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Take Virtual Chef Training
Be a virtual Top Chef. Take the basic training. An example of entertainment based online games. Not particularly engaging to me, though I am a foodie, but this...
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Make Every e-Book a Social Network
Thoughts about turning an e-book into a social reading network. Makes sense, though I wonder how often people will interact in this way. Comments on the books...
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Magazines Rush to the Pads
Is it based on Insanity and Fear? And will it take decades to complete? An AdAge interview looks at the implications. I think there will be dual channels for...
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Greenbook on Mobile Market Research
Their section on Mobile, an increasingly important area, as mobile devices become data gathering and sensor devices. At an event recently I gave an impromptu...
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Using Recorded Future for Competitive Intelligence
A good presentation video on competitive intelligence. The startup Recorded Future is a novel search engine that uses the rich time-based information found intheir...
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Visual Beauty of Machine Learning
From Matthew Hurst's site. I remember seeing similar visuals which represented processes like sorting, also very naturally visual. Since this is so visual, could...
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Tide Brings Loads of Hope
Tide's Loads of Hope comes to the tornado strucken area. In Drug Store News, a simple but very useful gesture that follows disaster, by my former employer.
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Behavioral Economics for Startups
Reports Dan Ariely: Looks to be quite interesting, would love to attend. "August 26-28th, 2011 Introducing Startup-OnomicsStartup-Onomics is about infusing behavioral...
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Gigabit Network Case Study
Case study of a Chattanooga network. Impressive work in a two part article.
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Recommendation Engines for Art
Recommendation has exist for music and books for some time. Now it is starting to be seen for visual art as well. In ReadWriteWeb. " ... there's been no comparable...
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First to Market Products that Failed
An instructive list, over many years and technology contexts, of ideas that were clearly groundbreaking, but failed in their first commercial use. I knew about many...
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First Commercial Quantum Computer
The first commercial quantum computer, from D-Wave, has been sold in a multi year contract to Lockheed Martin. More in Engadget. Impressive step towards commercial...
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Pads in Schools:Games as Learning
Should devices like the iPad replace books and other learning materials in schools? A recent experiment in the UK asks the question. I am still a proponent of...
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Endeca Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: Endeca. " ... For organizations seeking to improve daily decisions or purchase decisions for customers, Endeca is a search and business intelligence...
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Academics Move Closer to Wikipedia
I have been surprised that a large portion of academia was not sympathetic to the Wikipedia, perhaps seeing too much competition there. But once many people start...
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Gamifying Your Startup
Rajat Paharia of Bunchball on ways to gamify your startup. This takes you beyond just slapping some badge measures on your site, which I agree will not work ...
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Jesse Schell
The site of author,entrepreneur and game designer Jesse Schell. A number of useful threads there. I have just received his book: The Art of Game Design: A Book...
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Turing Award Winner Talks Technology
From the CACM: Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant discusses machine learning, parallel computing, and computational neuroscience. Machine learning is a favorite...
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