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Demystifying Cognitive Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Demystifying Cognitive Systems

In Deloitte University Press:  Demystifying artificial intelligence ... What business leaders need to know about cognitive technologies... 

C-Level Execs and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

C-Level Execs and Big Data

A natural next step.  The key will be how to make the translation from the analyst speak to the business strategy and process language.   " ... An overwhelming"One...

Watson Powered Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Powered Apps

A testament to the possibilities.  Though I believe all of these can be considered Beta.  In CIO Mag.   " ... IBM is investing $1 billion in its IBM Watson Group...

YouTube Brandlab
From The Eponymous Pickle

YouTube Brandlab

Though I have used it for years, never thought about YouTube as an advertising platform.  That is changing rapidly.  I like the concept of labs to test ideas and...

IBM Streaming Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Streaming Analytics

We did considerable work in using real time data to predict maintenance operations in high speed manufacturing.  Some of the methods we developed were ultimately...

How the Internet Affects National Sovereignty
From Schneier on Security

How the Internet Affects National Sovereignty

Interesting paper by Melissa Hathaway: "Connected Choices: How the Internet Is Challenging Sovereign Decisions." Abstract: Modern societies are in the middle of...

Rethinking segmentation for the new digital consumer
From Putting People First

Rethinking segmentation for the new digital consumer

Apple’s launch this week of Apple Pay, its m-commerce product, could help finally move millions of mainstream consumers toward the promise of mobile payments, according...

Little Data, Big Data and UX design at LinkedIn
From Putting People First

Little Data, Big Data and UX design at LinkedIn

Julie Marie Norvaisas and Jonathan “Yoni” Karpfen of LinkedIn’s User Experience Design (UED) Research Team share how their team discovers and uses “little data”...

How We Got to Now
From The Eponymous Pickle

How We Got to Now

Recently encountered PBS series on the process of innovation.  Nicely done.  Covers the history of discovered technologies, the process of integrating ideas, and...

Team Collaboration Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

Team Collaboration Tools

Have experimented with many, but never liked any of them.  How much are collaboration styles changing, and do these address that?Working together: 3 new team collaboration...

From Computational Complexity

Favorite Theorems: Circuit Lower Bounds

My long time blog readers should have no surprise on my final favorite theorem of 2005-2014. Nonuniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds by Ryan Williams (PDF) We sawlist...

More Robots, More Moral Hazards
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Robots, More Moral Hazards

More robots, increasingly autonomous.   The challenge of  moral and legal hazards.Whether you find it exhilarating or terrifying (or both), progress in robotics...

Innovation and Regulation Working Together
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Regulation Working Together

From Knowledge@Wharton:  Less regulation is very important.  " ... The rapid growth of the sharing economy has spawned numerous skirmishes between local regulators...

Barriers to Retail Store Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Barriers to Retail Store Analytics

In RetailWire:   Good general overview, full report requires registration.  " ... Web style retail store analytics offer powerful benefits for in-store operations...

Finding Hidden Laws
From The Eponymous Pickle

Finding Hidden Laws

The Santa Fe Institute on  " ... Finding the hidden laws that pervade complex biological & social phenomena ... "

Google Thoughts on Data Viz
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Thoughts on Data Viz

In ClickZ:  Straightforward thoughts on data visualization.  " .... Google Analytics Advocate Adam Singer explores the use of data in order to communicate and tell...

Creating government tech systems with excellent UX and ‘good enough’ security
From Putting People First

Creating government tech systems with excellent UX and ‘good enough’ security

Gov.uk, the website of the UK Government’s Digital Service that merges the websites of all UK Government Departments and many other agencies and public bodies,...

Neurotechnology Careers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurotechnology Careers

Lots about brain modeling.  But nothing about Neuromarketing. Funding is increasing opportunities.  In Science.

Hadoop Predictions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hadoop Predictions

Interesting, but I don't find this particularly useful.  I understand why you want easier to use Big Data manipulation tools.  But I would really like  transparent...

Prototype Real Holodeck
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prototype Real Holodeck

How about if you built a virtual holodeck representing a retail store?  Possible, but will it test similarly to a real store?  The technology is here.
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