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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
Big CPG Takes Advertising Claims to Court
In Adage: Fascinating direction about what claims can be made in advertising. Nestle, P&G and Unilever are examples. " ... The world's three biggest packaged...
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UMass Report on Use of Social Media by Fortune 500
Today attended the yearly presentation of UMass Dartmouth Prof Nora Barnes, commissioned by SNCR, where I was a fellow for years. Lots of fascinating numbersSee...
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Design Principles in Business
In Radar O'Reilly: An interview. Our enterprise added design as a key function." ... Design principles are being applied in all aspects of business today — they...
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Open Source Home Automation
In FastCoLabs: A look at a number of smart home enabling projects. Not to say that these will in the typical home, but love the inventiveness being demonstrated...
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Gamification at Dutch Bank
Have spent some time looking at enterprise applications of gamification, like having executives compete in finding solutions to particularly wicked problems. Here...
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Data too Difficult to Obtain
In BaselineMag: Marketers and unified data and improved tech tools. Yes, they have always wanted that. Also ways to have that data connected to specific tasks...
From Schneier on Security
Putting NSA/GCHQ Spying Together
This is a really good analysis of how the NSA/GCHQ spying programs actually work. It's nice that we finally have enough documents public that we can start putting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 December 2014
Well it was an interesting week for us last week. You may have heard that much of the east coast of the US was hit by a big snowstorm Wednesday – the night before...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Roundtable on Crowdsourcing Prior Art on December 2
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a Roundtable on December 2 to discuss crowdsourcing and third-party preissuance submissions to identify prior...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Guest Lecturers for Tech Week 2014
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking volunteer guest lecturers as part of Tech Week for patent examiners on December 1-5. Examiners could benefit...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Honors ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Charles Bachman and ACM Fellow Mary Shaw with Awards
President Obama awarded eleven U.S. National Medals of Science and eight U.S. National Medals of Technology and Innovation at a White House ceremony in the East...
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Senior Sensors
The need seems to be generating lots of solutions. Eldercare was pioneered by the Japanese, due to an aging population, we saw a number of examples at Fujitsu labs...
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Retail Game Design from IKEA.
In ReadWrite Web: When I saw the mention I immediately thought. A retail maze as game. But it is also probably the main reason I have at times avoided going...
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Risk for Sustainable Innovation
In Innovation Excellence:" ... Of the ten imperatives to Roberts Rules of Innovation, “No Risk… No Innovation” is arguably one of the most important. There are...
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Microservices for an Enterprise
Had not thought about the concept, but InfoQ takes a critical look. Admit I needed a definition, which is embedded. A technical consideration of design, which...
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Simple Open Source Data Visualization
In GigaOM: Overview of a simple data visualization tool called Charted, with limited options that might be handy to visualize data from a URL. I have been analyzing...
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A Data Journalism Handbook
Have not yet looked at this, so cannot measure this free online source. But I have seen some very bad data visualization recently in USA Today being syndicated...
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Dawn of the Smart, Connected Home
The Smart Home was an early development area for our innovation centers. So we we followed what it meant to be connected, and the implications for commerce and...
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EU Right to be Forgotten Guidelines
The concept continues to intrigue. The EU delivers guidelines. Of course the very act of wiping yourself clean from popular searches draws attention to you. ...
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