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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Algorithms and Targeted Marketing, Part 1

In a review of the book Automate This, Richard Waters writes, “Christopher Steiner makes a big claim for the mathematical formulas that underpin technology. ‘The ability to create algorithms that imitate, better,

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Supply Chain Risk and Resiliency

“In a way, it’s laughable,” writes Robert J. Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, “that we would even attempt to identify the ‘most likely’ disasters that could affect global supply chains. The ones

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Computers Get Creative, Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I began the discussion about whether creative computers can be labeled intelligent. I drew primarily from two articles. The first was written by Marcus du

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Computers Get Creative, Part 1

“No computer can yet pass the ‘Turing test’ and be taken as human,” writes Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science and a professor of mathematics at the

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Machine-to-Machine Communication

Ericsson, the Swedish technology firm, has a vision of the world in which 50 billion devices are continuously connected and communicating. On its website, the company writes: “The vision of more than

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Technology in the Aisles

Manufacturers try almost anything they can to get shoppers to pay attention to the products they offer on store shelves. For example, “marketers know vintage clothes and retro art sell well. Now,

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Making the Web More Intelligent

About a year and a half ago, Steve Lohr wrote, “When problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining varied sources of information, computers are no match for human intelligence.” [“Aiming to

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