Category: Technology

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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Smart Cities and Traffic

One simply can’t discuss smart city initiatives without including the topic of traffic — that is, how things move within the confines of an urban environment. Perhaps the most talked about challenge

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Big Data and Better Health

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

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The Road to Singularity: A Dead End?

As those familiar with artificial intelligence (AI) or artificial general intelligence (AGI) know, there continues to be a lot of debate about whether the singularity will be achieved. The AI singularity is

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Digital Marketing Growing in Importance

“Digital marketing budgets averaged 2.5% of company revenue in 2012, growing 9% in 2013,” reports Gartner’s Laura McLellan, “and that’s still too low. At a time when 2012 marketing operating budgets were

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Neat and Scruffy Artificial Intelligence

According to Wikipedia, “Neat and scruffy are labels for two different types of artificial intelligence research. Neats consider that solutions should be elegant, clear, and provably correct. Scruffies believe that intelligence is

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Big Data and You

“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

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