Tag: Google

Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search

Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tick­ets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wol­fram released A New Kind of Sci­ence and imme­di­ate­ly unleashed a firestorm of won­der, con­tro­ver­sy, and crit­i­cism as the British-born sci­en­tist, pro­gram­mer, and entre­pre­neur over­turn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An … Continue reading Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform

The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Information Visualization

The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go togeth­er, but as it con­nects its indus­tri­al prod­ucts, med­ical devices and home appli­ances to the inter­net and rethinks its busi­ness for the con­nect­ed age, the com­pa­ny is focus­ing on user inter­faces … Continue reading The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

Google street view shows dead people

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Sustainable Design

You can use Google Street View to see the dead Jess Zimmerman, grist.org Wow, is there nothing Google can’t do? Street View can take you under the ocean, to the surface of Mars, around the South Pole, inside an abandoned Fukushima town, and up some difficult hiking trails. And now, one Oregon man’s experience suggests… … Continue reading Google street view shows dead people

Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it real­ly easy to do some advanced visu­al­iza­tions on data in just a few min­utes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of Flow­ing­Da­ta for point­ing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

Sublime Google street view photos

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health

From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen. If you’ve never taken a ran­dom walk through Google Street View, the expe­ri­ence can feel like a dream in slow… … Continue reading Sublime Google street view photos

Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Google is back in the health busi­ness with a mys­te­ri­ous new ini­tia­tive to com­bat death itself. Google’s top exec­u­tives didn’t say much about the biotech ven­ture, called Cal­i­co, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that … Continue reading Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass com­peti­tor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for ath­letes and pro­fes­sion­als, has secured an invest­ment from Intel Cap­i­tal. In per­haps big­ger news, the com­pa­ny announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections

The data factory is the next industrial revolution

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

Sequoia’s Sir Michael Moritz: The ‘data factory’ is the next Industrial Revolution Jolie O’Dell, venturebeat.com Early Bird Tick­ets on Sale SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Com­pu­ta­tion power, appli­ca­tions, device and ser­vices costs, and stor­age are expe­ri­enc­ing a dra­mat­ic upheaval not unlike the Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion of cen­turies past. All that adds … http://flip.it/T6dGj Related articles Sequoia's Sir Michael … Continue reading The data factory is the next industrial revolution

Google just eliminated the market research business

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

Google just put the market research biz on notice — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles 3 Ways the World of Market Research is Evolving (marchpr.com) Small business tips: How to do market research (theguardian.com) Eight Ways to Use Facebook for Market Research (nchardz.wordpress.com) Google Already Takes A Majority Of All Mobile Ad Dollars - … Continue reading Google just eliminated the market research business

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com. Related articles Silicon Valley's answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com) 10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com) Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com) Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a 'Silicon Valley' company (geekwire.com) Leading … Continue reading Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox | Co.Design: business + innovation + design. Related articles Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox (fastcodesign.com)

Samsung EX2F: very fast, low light lens, compact form

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Metadata Masterdata

(via Samsung EX2F Review | Digital Trends Reviews) Related articles 18 questions you need to ask yourself before uploading that photo - Digital Trends (digitalcollaboration.wordpress.com) The most complete guide to digital dating, by a believer who found online love - Digital Trends (digitalcollaboration.wordpress.com) 2013 Digital Marketing Trends! (teksyte.wordpress.com) 40 Super Small Cameras - From Mini … Continue reading Samsung EX2F: very fast, low light lens, compact form

Natural language shopping

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding David Meyer, gigaom.com In the devel­op­ment of nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing, the seman­tic web and so on, e-com­merce pro­vides a rich breed­ing ground. Com­pa­nies such as Ama­zon and Google always want to find bet­ter ways to learn what it is poten­tial cus­tomers… Natural language comparison service … Continue reading Natural language shopping

Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, Linguistic Search, OSINT Intelligence

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once … Continue reading Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

Google time lapse photos of human destruction of the earth

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power. The boom­ing economies of Gulf oil states. The rise … Continue reading Google time lapse photos of human destruction of the earth

Kinsa: smartphone thermometer and real time health map

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata

Kinsa launches a smartphone-connected thermometer to create a real-time health map Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com If you want a real-time pic­ture of the coun­try’s health, you can check out Google Flu Trends or insights from social media. And if you want a more offi­cial per­spec­tive, you can turn to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol. But … Continue reading Kinsa: smartphone thermometer and real time health map

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Startup Salaries and Equity: Angel list

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

  angel.co Startup Salaries & Equity - AngelList http://flip.it/0UFrl http://flip.it/ctGJb Startup Salaries & Equity Related articles How to Bootstrap Your Startup (alleywatch.com) How to Negotiate a Job Offer (upstart.com)

Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it’s in the business of digital transactions. http://flip.it/6o25v Related articles Google … Continue reading Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING

Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health, Metadata Masterdata

If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users. Mobile apps are boom­ing by all the basic mea­sures, … Continue reading Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed

Google glass: high tech, low cool

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Digital Health

If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole Adrian Chen, gawker.com Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has developed a brilliantly concise definition of an asshole: “A person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms.” He was inspired by the assholes who talk in Amtrak’s quiet car, but thi… RT @core77: A … Continue reading Google glass: high tech, low cool

Industries that lose the most data

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance

The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data Our Editors, hbr.org With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my … Continue reading Industries that lose the most data

Facebook killed my blog

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

Facebook Killed My Blog Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushTravels With Rhody has reached the end of the road.Don’t worry, Rhody himself is fine—he’ll turn 16 in a couple of months and his only problem in life is a touch of arthritis. I’m talking about my blog, not my dog.Since 2004 I’ve… http://flip.it/GEyz7 Related articles Don't … Continue reading Facebook killed my blog

Twine cloud shield and the Internet of things

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Metadata Masterdata

Cloud Shield, Twine’s Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Co.Design gets an exclusive first look at Cloud Shield, which makes Twine a full-blown internet device. Welcome to the Internet of Things. If you’re not afraid of hack­ing togeth­er a bit of code and plug­ging tiny wires into a credit-card-sized… Cloud … Continue reading Twine cloud shield and the Internet of things

Co working spaces and working beyond the cube

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization, Metadata Masterdata

Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the elec­tron­ics firm Plantron­ics redesigned its head­quar­ters in Santa Cruz, Cal­i­fo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the … Continue reading Co working spaces and working beyond the cube

Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Information Visualization

Wired Opinion, wired.com Whereas the success of yesterday?s Fortune 500 companies — like U.S. Steel and Amoco — once depended on resources, today?s Fortune 500 companies — like Google and eBay — depend on access to talent. Wired Opinion Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com http://flip.it/SMrXJ http://flip.it/RGIu7 … Continue reading Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy

Age of context

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI

Age of Context Draft Introduction Shel Israel, forbes.com [NOTE: I am writ­ing a new book called Age of Con­text with Robert Scoble. We hope it will be ready at the end of Sep­tem­ber. This is a draft intro­duc­tion. It will be changed sev­er­al times before we pub­lish the book and what we want the m… … Continue reading Age of context