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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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LA Takes Back a Billion Dollars of iPads
In Reason: Schools replace them with laptops, declare an unmitigated disaster. " .... The Los Angeles Unified School District's plan to give every child an iPad...
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Sensors, 3D Printing and the Cloud
A new industrial Age? Overstated, but it is obvious that all these technologies together will drive specialized component needs to a new place. " ... A...
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Big Data in Ad Tech
In GigaOM Research, (requires registration for full access). " ... Advertising technology (ad tech) involves a formidable set of requirements. Operationally, ad...
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Analytics and Process
In Sloan Review: Analytics needs process. " .... Researchers suggest a new framework to regulate the “fairness” of analytics processes. What could this mean for...
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Story Telling for Value
Paul Smith, colleague and author of the excellent book: Lead with a Story ... writes: " ... I’ve set up a weekly newsletter list you can sign up for that summarizes...
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Cisco and the Connected Road
Cisco Gains Traction In The Connected Road Race in Fast Company "... In the latest installment of their ongoing expansion into the Internet of Things, CiscoIn...
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Harmonizing Physical and Virtual Stores
A PDF by SAP and Wharton: " .... Retailers are tapping an array of digital analytical tools to understand shoppers the way merchants, a couple of generations ago...
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Myths About Data Science
Excellent piece by Vincent Granville ... " .... Here are my reactions to the LinkedIn conversation about the "Statistical data scientists". In short, I believe...
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Machine Learning Removes Boring Parts
We also mused about how to do this with long retail behavioral videos. CMU reports on an interesting method. It is dangerous though to just disregard 'uninteresting'...
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Eye Tracking in UX Design
Brought to my attention: Eye Tracking in User Experience Design by Jennifer Romano Bergstrom and Andrew Schall. They write: " .... Eye Tracking for User Experience...
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Verizon and Big Data Analytics
At the recent Big Data and Analytics Summit I attended a talk and had a chat with Ashok Srivastava of Verizon, who leads a new research and development center in...
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Algorithmic Reporters
In Quartz: The examples that I have seen of this have not necessarily been very good, but it is inevitable to see this kind of filtering and re-presentation of...
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What Humans do Better
What do humans still do better than robots? In the HBR blogs. Something we examined closely with a number of University collaborators. It turns out many, many...
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Android Wear
Continued move towards wearable computing: Google launches Android Wear for wearable devices. Motorola announces Android Wear-based Moto 360, which will ship later...
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3D Scene Modeling
In the CACM: This tool looks very similar to work we did with a large technology company around 2000. How do you take normally flat surveillance footage from...
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Age of Context: Sensors, Data and Privacy
Starting to read, very good so far, more coverage later.Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy Paperbackby Robert Scoble and Shel Israel...
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Staples and the Future Home
In ReadwriteWeb: Staples not an expected participant in the idea, but have been in the past been impressed by their forward orientation. Have not examined yet...
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Obvious Patents
Evan Schuman on patenting the obvious. He says the Supreme Court did not go far enough, but this gives judges the opportunity to do the right thing.
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FleetRisk Advisors for Predictive Risk
At the recent Big Data and Analytics Summit I attended a talk and had a chat with Vikas Jain of FleetRisk Advisors. I had worked some similar projects with several...
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