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Procter Donates Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer
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Procter Donates Face Masks, Hand Sanitizer

UPDATE: P&G to make and donate face masks, hand sanitizer in response to coronavirus  By Barrett J. Brunsman  – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business CourierMar 26...

Towards a Taxonomy for Automated Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards a Taxonomy for Automated Assistants

Like the idea of identifying and constructing tasks for assistants so they can be more readily be challenged and compared.   This article suggests this be doneA...

Can Tech Disrupt the Virus?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Tech Disrupt the Virus?

Here is a challenge:  Can AI and Tech confront and disrupt evolved biology in new ways?  Can we think beyond methods that currently exist? Tech's Next Disruption...

Hybrid AI Examined
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hybrid AI Examined

Big proponent of the idea.   Neural methods solve specific problems well, yet we solve many other problems symbolically, logically.  Math gives us solutions with...

Anomaly Response: How we Respond to the Unexpected
From The Eponymous Pickle

Anomaly Response: How we Respond to the Unexpected

Intriguing piece.   Made me think of our current predicament as well.    Can we model human adaptation to expected and unexpected events?   I like the notion of...

New Rules for Remote Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Rules for Remote Work

Reasonably done look at things that make sense,  we have done much remote work for some time now, years in many cases, but now its just lots more of it.HBRWK: Business...

Virtualitics for Insight Extraction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtualitics for Insight Extraction

A company of interest for advanced data visualization.  We worked with them in the Enterprise.Virtualitics Selected fof the Air Force Strategic $7 Million Award...

Data Resources:  Our World in Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Resources: Our World in Data

As part of a larger project that is looking at Data Sources, Open Source Data, Data as an Asset, Data Quality, Data for Machine Learning, Semantic Data, Knowledge...

Recent Posts relating to Pandemic Conditions and Related Emergent Tech
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Recent Posts relating to Pandemic Conditions and Related Emergent Tech

Recent posts that relate to Contravirus and COVID-19 in this blog.  Primarily dealing with data, prediction, data visualization, Modeling, communication, AI and...

IBM, Oracle Team for WHO Virus Data Hub:  MiPasa
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IBM, Oracle Team for WHO Virus Data Hub: MiPasa

Now have looked at lots of sites claiming to provide accurate data in this space,  and it is clear you can drive wrong results from much that is out there.  SoWorld...

On Multisensory Adventures
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Multisensory Adventures

Vint Cerf on a favorite topic.   The senses.  He points to two inspirational books on the topic.  We are starting to 'understand' senses, at least if we use asMultisensory...

Recognizing Objects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recognizing Objects

More advances in fast vision systems.Optical System Could Lead to Devices That Can Recognize Objects InstantlyUCLA NewsroomMatthew ChinMarch 4, 2020An optical neural...

Emergence of the AI Risk Manager
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergence of the AI Risk Manager

In our day this was integrated with other kinds of analysis and management.   It may well make sense to focus this more generally. The emergence of the professional...

Rand on Force Planning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rand on Force Planning

Rand piece on the topic developed for Military scenarios, but could it be used for systems that include coopetition as well?    Costs, resources, strategies.Force...

Low-Code Taking Over
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Low-Code Taking Over

 Ultimately this will take over for most coding.Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development   By Nitin Nimbalkar -Today’s businesses are implementing...

The COVID-19 Virus and What the Recommendations Mean
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The COVID-19 Virus and What the Recommendations Mean

Very nicely done,  just eight minutes plus animated video about the topic.  For the whole family to understand.   By the German Kurzgesagt animation studio.Kurzgesagt...

Watermarking Control Data for Safety from Hackers
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Watermarking Control Data for Safety from Hackers

Thoughtful and apparently simple idea.Approach Could Protect Control Systems From HackersIEEE SpectrumMichelle HampsonMarch 26, 2020Researchers at Siemens and Croatia...

Linden Labs Gives up on VR Spin off
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linden Labs Gives up on VR Spin off

Note our examination of virtual world retail, mentioned here earlier.  This piece gives us a look at the current status of world tech with current supporting tech...

Tesla Autopilot Detecting Traffic Lights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesla Autopilot Detecting Traffic Lights

An example of systems including more environmental context for making decisions, ultimately essential.Tesla's Autopilot could soon detect traffic lights A video...

On Novel Risks in the Enterprise
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On Novel Risks in the Enterprise

Something we studied in some detail, solution was to have sufficient knowledge and resources, internal and access to external to be able to address the contextNovel...
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