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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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Google CPG Blog
I was reminded that Google has a Consumer Package Goods vertical blog that I had not visited in some time, check it out.
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Senses and Sales
Roger Dooley writes about the use of more senses to promote sales. Along the way mentioning and quoting Dan Hill's new book: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally...
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Adding Human Intelligence to Software
From CACM: Whats interesting here is the connection to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which we used to experiment with human intelligence tasks. There are some things...
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Girl Scouts Fight Photoshopping
This is interesting, reminding me of the Dove ads of a few years ago. What are the implications of 'healthy media' ? Or is an act like this just censorship?
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Primer for Using YouTube
An Adage primer for using YouTube as a marketing tool. I admit I am mostly a consumer of YouTube, and have just noticed some colleagues and companies starting...
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Identifying People By Their Phones
More about using biometric behavior with devices like phones for identification." ... Tabletop touch screens such as Microsoft's Surface are designed for sharing...
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Store Simulation
I just took a renewed look at the general problem of simulating retail store operations. We worked with a UK vendor called Space Syntax on this at one time. ...
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Video Traffic to Explode
Stan Dyck sends this along: " ...By 2014 90% of all Internet traffic will be video. Every device will lead with video. Phone. Tv. PC. #cisco ceo chambers at #Nvtc...
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World Statistics Day
The Wolfram Blog posts on World Statistics Day. We use statistically analyzed data every day, but do not often think about the origin of the data, the analysis...
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Neuromarketing Labels
The BrandShow podcast gives a short and simple overview of the use of neuromarketing for non conscious analysis of a brand. Using Campbell Soup as an example.
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Stock Exchange for Apps
It is true that it has become harder to find useful Apps. Too many, too obscure, or broad. There are the usual blogs and sites that describe new Apps, but I have...
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Tibco Silver Spotfire
I am just now getting to look at Tibco Silver Spotfire business intelligence and visualization package. It is now available as a one year free trial. A clever...
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Scratch Resistant Polymers
This note from Ideaconnection reminds me of some research work I did in this area long ago. As we carry around more things that need to be handled often and...
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Willpower not a Limited Resource
In Lifehacker a short piece on a recent Stanford study. That " ... the endurance you get from willpower is at least in part determined by your beliefs ... ". Obvious...
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Benoit Mandelbrot, Dead at 85
In the ACM: Mandelbrot was a major inspiration for me in the 1980s. Met in a conference at IBM at about that time. In particular his work with financial analysis...
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Scientific Feuds
Mind Hacks mentions an HG Wells piece on scientific feuds. Was was pointed out to me years ago. A good reminder about how researchers are people, and science...
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WiFi in Flight
I briefly encountered the ability to get WiFi wireless on a flight today. I said no. This CW article outlines the fact that though this convenience is getting...
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Heart Rate Sensor for IPhone
Have been exploring a number of sensor options and developments for Smartphones. Here is a relatively new one which does heart rate tracking. Sent to me by Mapmyfitness...
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Google Goggles: Image Recognition on Mobile
Have been involved in a number of image recognition projects, and the general problem is still hard. Google Goggles is now available on the Iphone as part of the...
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