Business and Big Data
May 29, 2013
“There’s a ton of information out there,” Steven Rosenbush and Michael Totty write. “And businesses are figuring out how to put it to work.” [“How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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Privacy: The 600-pound Gorilla in the Big Data Room
May 28, 2013
“[The] sophisticated world of Big Data analysis has arrived,” writes Andrew Carswell, “a realm where both criminal indiscretions and consumer appetite will be targeted by a myriad of data analysts, or ‘geek
A Thought Probe Series on Tomorrow’s Population, Big Data, and Personalized Predictive Analytics: Part 5, Beyond Smart Cities
May 24, 2013
I borrow the tagline for this post from Dr. Tim Campbell, author of a book entitled Beyond Smart Cities. Explaining the premise of his book, Campbell writes, “To really achieve smart cities
Marketing, Math, and Magic
May 23, 2013
Jason Stewart, who leads content marketing efforts at Demandbase, writes, “B2B marketers … continually blanket the web with their offers and messages in the hopes of magically getting impressions in front of
Intelligence from Chaos
May 16, 2013
Alexander Wissner-Gross, a physicist at Harvard University and a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and his colleague Cameron Freer, a post-doctoral fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial
Big Data: The Beginning of an Era
May 9, 2013
“For all the change we’ve experienced,” writes Adam Frank, “the most profound transformation of the digital era is really just getting started. Welcome to the era of Big Data.” [“Big Data Is
Big Data and Better Health
May 8, 2013
In late 2011, you might have read that IBM and healthcare provider WellPoint Inc., the nation’s largest insurer by membership, were teaming together to leverage the computing power of “IBM’s Watson supercomputer
Big Data and Big Brother
May 2, 2013
“In our haste to study larger and larger amounts of data and find information,” writes Christopher Taylor, “there’s a point getting lost in the excitement … those are people who often haven’t
Semantic Web and Semantic Search
April 30, 2013
Sir Timothy “Tim” Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, also coined the term “semantic web” nearly a score of years ago. It has taken most of two decades to develop technologies
Personalization and Targeted Marketing, Part 2
April 24, 2013
In the first segment of this two-part series on personalization and targeted marketing, I discussed the views of a number of analysts who believe that getting to know customers better and then
