Category: Cognitive Systems AI

  • IBM’s new Center for Social Software

    IBM’s new Center for Social Software claims it is a first of kind center of excellence dedicated to helping our customers and partners with the tough challenges of collaborating across globally distributed organizations. An acknowledged leader in the field, the center will bring together the brightest minds in IBM from around the world and tap into…

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  • Sosolimited tracks linguistics of debates

      A trio of MIT grads and design wunderkinds at Sosolimited tracks speech patterns and eye blinks, analyze body language and word choices, and run reams of statistics of the presidential debates. Related articles MIT grads’ technology gauges Olympic mood (bostonglobe.com) MIT Uses Social Media Tech To Gauge Olympic Fervor (sporttechie.com) Twitter Sentiment to Light Up London’s Ferris…

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  • Google Earth Uncovers Cow GPS

      I found this article fascinating since it demonstrates how large scale observation of thousands of bovines can detect patterns in their behavior, namely that they all face North/South. A pair of German researchers are crediting Google Earth for enabling a new discovery into the hidden powers of cows. The two zoologists used the Google mapping tool to…

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  • Obama Uses Social Networking for Content Focused Campaign

      This is amongst the rare elections in my experience where the Democrats have succeeded in communications and this is due to Obama’s clever use of social networking technologies, as this MIT article describes. While McCain and Palin continue to use their crudely effective cliche sound bytes to attract less knowledgeable voters, Obama/Biden are proving…

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  • The Numerati by Stephen Baker: The Rise of Anthro Network Analysis

    Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker – BusinessWeek. This is a pretty fascinating book and article on the uses of anthropologists/social network analysis at IBMin order to fit employees to the best jobs. The new trend is measuring everything, from keystrokes, to vacation destinations, favorite foods…   Related articles Meet Apple’s Favorite Blogger (Business Week)…

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  • Kill the Powerpoints: Make captivating charts and graphs

    Make captivating charts and graphs | Macworld. Related articles 5 Things You Need to Know About “Death by PowerPoint” Create Professional Presentations In Minutes with Slidevana for PowerPoint and Keynote [Giveaway] RoamBi iPhone app makes data uberpretty Create A Graph Avoiding Death by Powerpoint [Guest Post] Maximizing the impact of an analyst briefing – 1…

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  • Softworld – – Smart People. World Class Solutions

      Softworld – – Smart People. World Class Solutions.   Good staffing firm for IT skills. You met correy davis at KM Medaffairs conference (CBI)     Related articles Access unveils the future of technology at Softworld Access to Outline Cloud Strategy at Softworld 2010  

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  • Linguistic analysis of election perception

    Boston.com – Ideas – Globe. Both campaigns are linguistically all about Obama according to metrics of the word patterns in blogs. Related articles Republican ethos on display – Boston Globe 5 Things to Watch at the DNC on Thursday President Obama sweltered in Windham, NH, as he talked about his opponents … – Boston Globe…

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  • KMWorld & Intranets

    KMWorld & Intranets 2008. Related articles Search Technologies Named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management (prweb.com) Mindbreeze InSite Wins KMWorld Trendsetting Product Award (arnoldit.com) Smartlogic’s Semaphore, the Open Semantic Platform, Has Been Named by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2010 (prweb.com) KMWorld Recognizes TheBrain Technologies Knowledge Management Software as a Trend-Setting…

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  • Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

    Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?. Related articles ADHD Symptoms In Toddlers (answers.com) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood (sciencedaily.com) Irregular sleep patterns linked to ADHD-like symptoms, says study (time4sleep.co.uk) Is there a link between ADHD and spectacular financial failures? (guardian.co.uk) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury,…

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  • NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth

    NASA – NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth. Related articles Plants’ fungi allies may not help store climate change’s extra carbon (esciencenews.com) Differences Between Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide (differencebetween.net) New Tool Maps California’s Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters (blogs.kqed.org) The coal conundrum and global warming (blogs.courier-journal.com) You: Rising carbon dioxide in…

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  • Where do all the neurotics live?

    Where do all the neurotics live? – The Boston Globe. Related articles Personality Disorder & The Neurotic (jeremyhermanns.org) Neurotic men have shorter lives (pinnaclelife.co.nz) Let’s go to a spa meeting for neurotics! (feministphilosophers.wordpress.com) Delaying Gratification . . . part two. (writinglife101.wordpress.com) Evangelizing the Neurotic (fatherstephen.wordpress.com) Study: extroverts and neurotics feel phanthom vibrations the most (textually.org)

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  • Why some people spend money they don’t have

    Surprising insights from the social sciences – The Boston Globe. This interesting article discusses a study on why some people are more likely to spend money the do not have. Related articles Have Your Money-Saving Plans Ever Blown Up in Your Face? (bellasugar.com) The Importance of Studying the Obvious (blogs.hbr.org) Paul Ryan caught lying about…

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  • Bank REOs | Locate Bank REO Properties & Real Estate Owned Foreclosures | BiggerPockets.com

    Bank REOs | Locate Bank REO Properties & Real Estate Owned Foreclosures | BiggerPockets.com. Banks list their REO listings on their sites in some cases. . Related articles FHFA Moving Forward With Bulk REO Sales (bayarearealestatetrends.com) Fannie, Freddie, FHA REO declined 18% Year-over-year (calculatedriskblog.com) FDIC reports Fewer Problem banks, REO Declines; Total REO Declines in…

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  • Christopher Tennant: Ethnography of the very rich

    The laugh of luxury – The Boston Globe. This is hilarious. This guy went to the best schools and grew up around the rich and now has written a funny ethnography of what it is like to be one of the rich. Turns out they are even more neurotic, stressed, and unkempt than the rest…

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  • The Political Mind by George Lakoff

    Book Review – ‘The Political Mind,’ by George Lakoff – Review – NYTimes.com.

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  • Understanding the customer experience with social networks

    Hurry up, the customer has a complaint – The Boston Globe. A number of companies are now developing positions such as Chief Twitter Officer, Chief Facebook officer, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. due to the growth of customer feedback in online web 2.0 communities and the need to address it. Related articles The 8 Things You Should…

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  • Why farmed salmon is a bit odd

    Catch of the day? – The Boston Globe. This article shows that farmed salmon is indeed a rather scary product. It is injected with colorant to give it the beta carotene rich appearance of pink color which occurs naturally from the diets of wild salmon. It is often infected with sea lice Related articles The…

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  • Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer

    Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer. This article argues that each hyperlink in the internet is like a synapse in the brain which now results in the internet having the computational power of a brain. Related articles Building a virtual supercomputer (thehindu.com) AMD unveils teraflop FirePro GPU (zdnet.com) The smartphone is the PC of…

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  • Reinventing the Workweek with Green Business Practices

    All In A Days Work — Reinventing the Workweek — Green Business Practices | Fast Company. Related articles Opinion: Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek. (nytimes.com) Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek. (andsp.com) US DATA: Aug Dallas Fed Svcs Outlook Survey activity. (forexlive.com) Is Monday really the worst day of the workweek? (bizjournals.com) It’s Sick…

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  • Die Pillendreherin: Kerstin Hollmann’s blog

    Die Pillendreherin. Kerstin Hollmann’s blog Related articles Does Jane Dumas Know Cogentrix is Trying to Ruin Mission Trails? (savemissiontrails.org) Green Blog: Ancestral Remedies to the Rescue (green.blogs.nytimes.com) eJournals and Databases added in June 2012 (wulibraries.typepad.com) Greens! Greens! Greens! (missmaggiemayhem.com) The lost digital decades (moncurdg.com) Classifying Mind Clouds (longstreet.typepad.com) DIY Herbal Remedies (ediblearia.com) Masters in viticulture…

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