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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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Word Origins
A bit off this track, but I was pointed to Word Origins recently, which is worth a look. As a blogger, reader of feeds in many areas it is surprising how often...
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Open Innovation at Nestle
Nestle's Open Innovation site. Also the Open Innovation blog.
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Wal-Mart and Prism
Ad Age reports on Wal-Mart's pulling out of Prism. " ... decided not to participate in the national syndicated service "consistent with their internal data-sharing...
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Second Earth: A Geographic Model Mashup
An interesting example of the overlaying of real time data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) onto a globe, which was then inserted...
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Google Ends Research Database Program
Google will end their research database program at the end of January 09. The object was to provide large databases for scientific study, as described in this....
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Cell Phone Health Biometrics
Another example of health monitoring using cellphone based systems, from UCLA.
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End of Individual Genius?
A interesting view, though I remember reading about this a long time ago. That most results come from research labs, not individuals. There seem to be many celebrity...
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Correlations in Social Neuroscience
Via Mind Hacks, an overview of and a pointer to an MIT paper on the statistical correlations between fMRI brain activity and reported human behavior. This is a...
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Martin Wattenberg
Good overview piece on data visualization innovator Martin Wattenberg, with descriptions of his recent work. Previously on Wattenberg's work.
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Top Small Business Trends
Steve King's Small Business Labs publishes their top ten small business trends for 2009.
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Science of Shopping
Broad article in the Economist on the topic of how retail is increasingly using the store as a laboratory to gather behavioral data about shoppers. Also aboutBrandsense...
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Creative Thinking Outside the Pyramid
Good detailed local paper article on Procter & Gamble's Clay Street Project. A previous Futurist article on this.
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Future of Measurement Explored
Kate Niederhoffer on the Future of Measurement a good overview and pointer to the full PDF. Interesting thoughts, worth a look. Personally I think that thereSocial...
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The Risks of Numerical Models
Passed along by a colleague. A short article and podcast that makes a very profound point. No matter how sophisticated and mathematical a model is, if it doesThe...
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Wisdom of Crowds?
Colleague Sammy Haroon critiques the idea of a wisdom of crowds.
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UPS Remarks on Supply Chains
Global Supply Chains are not ready for challenging times. Many large companies have models of their supply chains. You would assume that it is just a matter of...
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Asking for Too Much Information
It is not only about privacy, it seems that consumes are making some interesting, even logical choices about risk and economics. In ECommerce Times:" ... According...
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