Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • Social network analysis science detects Medicare fraud, terrorisms plots

    Fascinating article which shows how social network analysis (SNA)science is being used in the business world including everything from finding Saddam Hussein (by mapping his chauffeurs’ habits online) to identifying healthcare fraud. Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist. Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending – Gartner (misco.co.uk)…

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  • Hunch: Crowdsourcing our Tastes and Preferences

    The founder of Flickr has now moved on to create a new web service that will map tastes and recommendations. What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Women In Tech: Up & Coming Female Entrepreneurs (grasshopper.com) CrowdSource CEO, Stephanie Leffler, Earns ’40 Under 40′ Nod…

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  • The doctor will tweet you now

    via www.computerworld.com Good overview of SAAS, social computing and e-health Related articles easyJet: IT shouldn’t block business users from buying SaaS apps (computerworld.co.nz) Fujitsu Introduces Cloud Service for Senior Care (sys-con.com) Newest release of SaaS Maker™ ‘Cloud Toolkit’ Helps Entrepreneurs Build Big Software Without Venture Capital Dollars (prweb.com) How Doctors Use Social Media (medmeme.com) Online Dos…

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  • LinkedIn maps career success paths

    A fundamental discovery of social sciences is that in organizations it is often individuals who communicate across organizational boundaries that hold true organizational power rather than individuals who may hold power institutionally. Well, Linkedin has just developed an app for that. There are now some neat ways to see how the power of one’s network…

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  • Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?

    I’ve been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both… E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD…

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  • Restoring Information’s Body: ASIS 2010 Annual Meeting with Luch Suchman

    Clearly one of the better thinkers out there on the human-machine interface. ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting | Keynote Speaker. Related articles Identify Your Military Skills: ASI List (military.answers.com) Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alan Hirsch, M.D., F.A.C.P., to Present at ScentWorld 2013 (prweb.com) VideoPropulsion Ships Cost-Effective Intelligent DVB ASI to IP Gateway for Cable Headends (prweb.com) Latest…

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  • Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

    This guy has the money and the brains to turn the  hypothesis testing scientific method on its head and speed up our currently extremely expensive and slow drug discovery process using the power of the Internet to analyze massive data sets and look for patterns. Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure | Wired Magazine…

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  • Mobile photos reveal movements of tourists and natives in Boston

    Their Boston, Our Boston – The Boston Globe. Related articles You know you’re from Boston when … (boston.com) Boston’s Award Winning Interior Design Firm Wilson Kelsey Design is Featured in Boston Globe Magazine’s “Your Home / Find Your Style” (prweb.com) Demand for Boston Bruins Seats Has Sent Ticket Prices Through the Roof – AniceTicket.com Announces…

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  • Global Knowledge Exchange: privacy in the age of information

    Global Knowledge Exchange. Related articles 7X24 Exchange Spring Conference (datacenterknowledge.com) Ocean Exchange Launches 2013 Call for Solutions. Register to Compete for the $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award and the $100,000 WWL Orcelle Award (prweb.com) Lenovo Expands U.S. Global Headquarters, NC Footprint (news.lenovo.com) MCSE Exchange Server 2013 Training Offered by NetCom Learning, Gold Microsoft Training Partner (prweb.com)…

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  • Foresight Into Insight Into Action: Institute For The Future

    A nice think tank that hires anthropologist futurists. Foresight Into Insight Into Action | Institute For The Future. Related articles Future Work Skills 2020 (classroom-aid.com) Renowned Game Designer Jane McGonigal to Speak at BlackBerry DEVCON Americas 2011 (blogs.blackberry.com) Renowned Game Designer Jane McGonigal to Speak at BlackBerry DEVCON Americas 2011 (devblog.blackberry.com) Can Video Games Change…

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  • UW-Madison Sustainability Engineering Master’s Degree goes online

    New MS in sustainability engineering Online Engineering Master’s Degree, UW-Madison. Related articles Wisconsin must leverage its strong patent production for growth (jsonline.com) UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse again make Kiplinger’s best value list (jsonline.com) University of Wisconsin Flexible Option Opens Enrollment (prweb.com)

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  • UCLA Master of Science in Engineering goes online

    home — UCLA Online Master of Science in Engineering. Related articles Nanoscale capsule effectively kills cancer cells (nanowerk.com) Cyndy Garvey Sues UCLA for Master’s Program Screw Job (thehollywoodgossip.com) Tiny capsule effectively kills cancer cells (scienceblog.com) Tiny Capsule Effectively Kills Cancer Cells (bioresearchonline.com) Spelman College SpelBots Demonstrate Cutting-Edge Robotics at UCLA (prweb.com)

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  • Applied Systems Engineering (PMASE) at Georgia Institute of Technology

    Engineers are boning up on behavioral science and human factors with the increasing number of professional masters degrees. Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering (PMASE) | Home | Georgia Institute of Technology. Related articles Georgia Tech’s Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Lab Receives a National Institute of Building Sciences ‘Beyond Green’ Award (prweb.com) Top-rated Colleges in Georgia…

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  • The Rise and Fall of Swivel.com, the first “YouTube for data”

    The Rise and Fall of Swivel.com | eagereyes. Related articles Layne Publications Introduces New YouTube Video Channel for Bluegrass Music Enthusiasts (prweb.com) Swivel-screen laptop: The best of both worlds (lenovo.com) Free SWF to Video Converter From Newgrounds – Swivel (coldhardflash.com) Shure A32M Swivel Mount Substitute (gearslutz.com) How To Build a GoPro Swivel Mount – Video…

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  • Internet Evolution: Seven Questions for Social Networking Success

    Pretty good tips for social networking… Internet Evolution – The Big Report – Seven Questions Key to Social Networking Success. Related articles The Evolution of Word-Of-Mouth (And What It Means to You) (blogs.constantcontact.com) Social Media Strategy: “I don’t think my audience is using social media.” (digitalsurgeons.com) 10 Tips to Improve Your Business’ Social Media Presence…

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  • How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight: a case from a Jet Blue disaster

    Good article on ways that companies such as JetBlue can use text analytics to analyze thousands of emails for business intelligence How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight – Business_intelligence – Analytics – Informationweek. Related articles By 2015, more than 30 percent of analytics projects will deliver insights based on structured and unstructured data (ctovision.com) LogiXML…

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  • Why biotech and pharma companies are taking so long to adopt social media

    Pharma companies have to deal with a lot of hurdles to allow people to collaborate with them online which may explain why they are such late adopters Regulations restrict social media use by biotechs, pharma – Mass High Tech Business News. Related articles Biotech, pharma warming up to Facebook (fiercebiotechit.com) Is FDA keeping social media…

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  • You are not a gadget

    Interesting book against the increasingly reductionist view of our lives Rage against the machine – Boston.com. Related articles Infographic: CEO Gadgets (ceo.com) This Sleep Gadget Is A Right Lark (time4sleep.com) Is ‘Gadget Paranoia’ Blowing Your Buzz? (businessinsider.com)

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  • Sign in to read: The writing on the cave wall

    Sign in to read: The writing on the cave wall – life – 17 February 2010 – New Scientist.  The origin of all languages. The universal pictographic code from 30,000 years ago. Related articles Ancient pictographs from Montana state park break off, fall from cave wall (missoulian.com) The Man Cave (sprayfoamdirect.com) Kryptonite Cave (birthdayinabox.com) A…

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  • MakerBot Industries: DIY rapid prototyping, design and manufacturing

    MakerBot Industries. Related articles MakerBot Industries co-founder Adam “Phooky”… (rivalanimus.com) 3-D Printers at CES: Can MakerBot Sell a DIY Revolution? (dailyfinance.com) Manufacturing and Prototyping on Your MakerBot Replicator 2 (makerbot.com) Ford and Daimler Embrace 3-D (fool.com) Will the 3D Printing Revolution Produce the Next Apple? (bigthink.com) The shape of things to come: A consumer’s guide…

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  • Blender Store: Open source 3D modeling app

    Blender Store. Crazy open source 3D modeling software Related articles The Best Open Source Multimedia Software: Video & Audio Editors, 3D Rendering, etc. (digitizd.com) Looking Back on One Year of RIM Open Source Repositories (devblog.blackberry.com) Open Source and the BlackBerry PlayBook OS Platform (devblog.blackberry.com) Getting to Know Open Source BlackBerry PlayBook Development (devblog.blackberry.com)

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  • Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI

    Good overview of the use of text mining for BI. Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI – Software – Information Management – Informationweek. Related articles Text Mining Allows Marketers to Listen More Carefully to Web Chatter (daveibsen.typepad.com) How To Write an Academic Paper in Text Mining (datamining.typepad.com) Market Leader Linguamatics Awarded Funding for…

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