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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Overview
In Forbes/ HBS Working Knowledge: Good, short item on the current state of neuromarketing. Still not clear from this how this is better than or effectively combines...
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Testable Ideas vs Good Ideas
By Michael Schrage in the HBR. Good point that is rarely directly first considered in innovation. How do we test this idea? " ....the successful innovators...
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A Discovery Advisor
A press release of nearly a year ago that I reviewed for a meeting with a client in the last few weeks. What does it mean for a company to do discovery on a combination...
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Executive Manager and Machine
In McKinsey: What will AI mean to management, to the executive suite? A long term question we examined for a long time. They have some interesting points. It...
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DARPA Looking for More Sensing, Autonomous Drones
In CWorld: Implications of more data and the need for methods that can understand sensor data at high speed and the intelligence to make decisions. Inspired by...
From Schneier on Security
Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
I am deeply skeptical of the FBI's announcement on Friday that North Korea was behind last month's Sony hack. The agency's evidence is tenuous, and I have a hard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use Two Factor Authentication
JP Morgan was burned by not implementing it everywhere. So it is a good time to enable two factor authentication security for passwords. It is not univsersal...
From Schneier on Security
Manipulating Juries with PowerPoint
Interesting article on the subconscious visual tricks used to manipulate juries and affect verdicts. In December 2012 the Washington Supreme Court threw out Glasmann's...
From Schneier on Security
North Korea DDoSed Off the Internet
North Korea has been knocked off the Internet by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Maybe the US did it, and maybe not. This whole incident is a perfect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speed of Change
Braden Kelley makes some good comments on the speed of change in Innovation Excellence, Statistics on change. I have wondered if we are ultimately slowing down...
From Schneier on Security
2008 Cyberattack Against Turkish Oil Pipeline
Interesting article talks about the 2008 cyberattack against a Turkish oil pipeline: For western intelligence agencies, the blowout was a watershed event. Hackers...
From Wild WebMink
Is Santa to blame for the surveillance society?
Perhaps the reason we are not horrified by the surveillance society is because our parents normalised that behaviour by teaching us about Santa. Santa knows if...
From Putting People First
Reinventing Banking – Toby Sterrett of Simple
[Video] “Designing Delightful Details for a UI Revolution” by Toby Sterrett at push.conference 2014 Toby Sterrett, Simple’s Director of UX, offers a deep dive on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baking Intelligence into the Network
In CWorld: " ... A well-known problem in the Internet of Things is that many connected devices operate in silos. Your Fitbit doesn't communicate with your NestOne...
From Computational Complexity
Undergraduate Research
I just received the Cornell Math Matters, dedicated to the memory of Eugene Dynkin who passed away on November 14 at the age of 90. In my freshman year at Cornell...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Spending Falls
In Adage: " .. Top Ad Spenders Pull Back in Third Quarter ... Internet Display Spending Fell 1.7% as Desktop Page Views Fell ... Top spender P&G has now posted...
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P&G Focuses, Simplifies
From the P&G Alumni Network. Large companies need to simplify and focus on profit." .. The Procter & Gamble Company today announced the sale of its Camay and Zest...
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TNS and Headspace Neuromarketing
Although I had seen TNS mentioning these approaches, here is a direct collaboration. The approach seems to be a combination of EEG and eyetracking methods" ......
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Google Releases Purchase Prediction Tool
In Mediapost: Most interesting idea, especially as it deals with a perhaps unique path to conversion. Very interesting problem from an analytical point of view...
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