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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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Crowdsourcing
Completed Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe, who is a well known Wired writer. I did not know that Howe had...
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Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age
Good article in ComputerWorld on the current state of AI (Artificial Intelligence) . This time no mention that we will soon create intelligence as there was in...
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Nielsen Suspends In-Store Metric
Missed the press release on Friday: Nielsen Suspends PRISM Data System, apparently indefinitely, although they blame it on the economy, has to be in part because...
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Tesco and Twitter
The article below, and their web site, and on Twitter. Following them at this time, though there is too much buzz for my taste there. Tesco tunes in to the artCorrespondent...
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A Retail Drama
Yesterday I walked Costco with a cart. I take more than a casual interest in these kinds of excursions. I look for assortment, costs, technologies and shelf design...
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Future of Books
The future of books and knowledge, one of my favorite topics. From the NYRB: Google and the Future of Books. See also my recent comments on book scanning progress...
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Brand Manager Blogs
Dave Knox, P&G Brand Manager, has an interesting personal blog.
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Microsoft Announces New BI
An overview presentation of changes in Microsoft's Business Intelligence roadmap.
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Horizon Graphs
Stephen Few writes about horizon graphs for time series designed for visualization and comparison: " ... horizon graphs can meaningfully display 50 or so full....
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Neuroscience Boot Camp
Get your boots out, you can be fully trained this summer.-
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Britannica Prepares to Create Community
In a perhaps inevitable change, Britannica is planning a major change to the way it gathers knowledge, making it more wiki-like. Establishing a community of experts...
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Analytics vs Gut Feelings
An Accenture study says that 60% of major decisions are made with analytics and 40% are made with gut judgement. Business leaders think that more attention should...
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Large Lectures Replaced
In the NYT, an article about how universities like MIT are replacing " .... traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on,...
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Google Roundtable Talks
A bit dated to mention this, but there is a talkshow format set of talks about technologies. Includes one on natural language translation that I posted about some...
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IEEE Computing Now: Search Viz
IEEE Computing Now is in Beta. Here is a current article on visualization. Pak Chung Wong of Pacific Northwest Laboratory gives us an overview of their work under...
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Crowd-Sourcing the World
This is quite ambitious, I see that Nokia is involved. How do we know this will be used for good rather than evil? Even a bit less than evil?"Crowd-Sourcing the...
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Peter+Trudy
Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz are consultants who worked with Procter & Gamble while we were working with the Institute for the Future in the 90s. They did an excellent...
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Comparing Google Knol and Wikipedia
Not much competition so far. Also minimal editing in Knol has led to dropping quality. Can it survive? There is still not much critical mass or attempt at basic...
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