Big Data and You
March 25, 2013
“Did you know,” asks a blogger named Klaus, “that 90% of the data in the whole world today has just been created as of 2012?” [“Big Data – Its Importance and How
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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The Importance of Location in Targeted Marketing
March 19, 2013
Walter Loeb recently reported that Macy’s has done well merging its retail and eCommerce channels using a strategy it calls “MOM” (My Macy’s localization, Omnichannel, and MAGIC selling strategy). Loeb reports that
Marketing to the Individual
March 18, 2013
“Last year marked a turning point in marketing,” writes Liz Crawford, vice president of insights and strategy at Marketing Drive, “it was the moment when genuine, one-to-one marketing was finally realized.” [“Market
The Most Innovative Age in Human History
March 15, 2013
“Many people believe that the future of mankind is bleak because the planet can’t sustain its growing population,” writes Vivek Wadhwa, a Fellow at the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for
Business and Artificial Intelligence
March 12, 2013
“A Singularity has no business model,” writes Science fiction author Bruce Sterling, “no major power group in our society is interested in provoking one, nobody who matters sees any reason to create
Data Philanthropy and Global Resilience
March 8, 2013
“The digital revolution of the first decade of this new century has brought many wonders,” writes Robert Kirkpatrick, “yet it has also has ushered in a bewildering array of unanticipated consequences. We
Illuminating (and Eliminating) Fraud using Dark Data
March 7, 2013
“We live in a highly connected world where every digital interaction spawns chain reactions of unfathomable data creation,” writes Paul Doscher, CEO of LucidWorks. “The rapid explosion of text messaging, emails, video,
Big Data is about People and Behavior
February 25, 2013
With all of the hype surrounding big data, we should remind ourselves that what is most important is how it can be used to help us better understand ourselves, the decisions we
Advances in Artificial General Intelligence Continue
February 22, 2013
Last December Dario Borghino reported, “Researchers at the University of Waterloo have built what they claim is the most accurate simulation of a functioning brain to date.” [“Scientists build the most accurate
Electronic Health Records: The Best is Yet to Come
February 21, 2013
There have been a number of articles published recently about the fact that savings that were predicted to flow from conversion to electronic medical records (EMR) — sometime called electronic health records
