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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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Tibo and Teradata and Real Time Event streams
TIBCO and Teradata Enable CIOs to Extract Actionable Insights From Real-Time Event Streams to Deliver the Two-Second AdvantageEvent Processing within the Teradata...
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P&G Business Sphere Wins Edison Silver Award
Quite a considerable accomplishment, built on work started years ago with innovation in Executive Information Systems. Much more in this blog about Business"...
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SAS Visual Analytics
In SASCom: SAS visual analytics methods, seen through the problem of retailing. Video of their method. Would like to see more of this in the retail space.
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Physical by Smartphone
Thinking of a smartphone as a sensor driven device. How might they ultimately be used as a means to give remote physicals? Still some issues, but the possibilities...
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Anti Churn Analytics
A not uncommon application for analytics. Decreasing customer churn. This loyalty problem is an expensive issue in many periodic sales industries. A case study...
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Second Screens
An examination of the second screen phenomenon. Mashable looks how it is evolving. And a number of interesting players.
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Turning Shoppers into Heat Maps
A piece in Bloomberg about tracking shoppers in retail. A subject we did much with in retail laboratory environments, and much has been written about here. More...
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Camera Inspired by Insect Eyes
In Science Mag. A new camera that was inspired by an alternative model for sight, using multiple individual lenses to focus on objects. The claim is that the result...
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Cultural Analytics
Lev Manovich on Cultural Analytics. " ... Cultural Analytics: computational analysis and visualization of massive cultural visual datasets in the humanities....
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Very Thin RFID Tags
In GigaOM: For use in applications like embedding tags into advertising in magazines. Or integrating with product packaging. Or other on shelf applications.
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In Store Eye Tracking
An example of a store display tracking eye movement. " ... Scientists at Lancaster University have created advertising screens which track your eye movement as...
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A Discussion About Online Education
Good discussion of On line Education (MOOC):On April 25, 2013, UPenn President Amy Gutmann appeared on the Charlie Rose show to discuss online education with fellow...
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Whats Different about Big Data Analytics
In TDWI: Thoughtful, but also somewhat misleading piece on the subject. Big data analytics need to work with the same assumptions that all analytics have always...
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Chromebook can be a Kiosk
We examined kiosks for retail. It is surprising the number of alterations that have to be made to deliver a secure and easily usable kiosk based on a PC or laptop...
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Waiting for Strong AI
Back in the 80s we were waiting, and expecting the emergence of Strong AI. Generalized intelligent machines, that would be as intelligent as a human, and do things...
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First Web Site Launched 20 Years Ago
CERN published the first Web site twenty years ago. Seems like a much longer time ago. CWorld reports on the event. Consider how much it has changed how we work...
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Problem Framing Through Behavioral Heuristics
This sounds much like what we tried to do when building simulation systems with agent models. But it seems different when I read the abstract. Once you have found...
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Big Data University
A repository of free course ware on the topic, now in Beta. Supported by IBM and others. As they say, at your place and pace. Many courses now available. Other...
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Big Data at The Speed of Business
I was just informed of this online broadcast, done twice today, 4/30. I plan to attend and tweet.Follow with hashtags #bigdatamgmt and #ibmsmb .... " ... Today...
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