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IBM’s Watson in Retrospect, Ken Jennings and Others Weigh In
Over the Valentine’s Day week, IBM’s expert-system Watson took on all-time Jeopardy! winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and pretty much trounced them. This has generated a great deal of speculation and a lot of buzz for IBM. If nothing else, this has been a huge publicity for IBM and Watson and possibly even Jeopardy! ...
Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Could Open the Door for a PC App Store
The recent announcement by Microsoft that they intend to release a personal SDK for the Kinect that will enable the production of applications for Windows 7 has come with much fanfare. Commentary from Craig Mundie, the software giant’s chief strategy and research officer, has come out to enlighten us on Microsoft’s support of the developer ...
Generating Crowds: Astroturfing Propaganda Software and Social Media Collide
There’s a lot of research to be done on crowdsourcing—the method of turning minor human actions into large, complex activities or processes; but what about the opposite, certainly marketing could make use of the ability to generate the illusion of a crowd from a few people. Enter the power of social media and the Internet. ...
UberTwitter and twidroyd Restored by Twitter, Blackberry Natives Still Restless
From the looks of it two of the apps that Twitter gave the axe last week have gotten the keys to the API back and are once again back in the fray. UberTwitter, now known as UberSocial, and twidroyd have been returned to tweeting status as of yesterday afternoon after making multiple concessions to Twitter ...
What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?
During the test-run of IBM’s Watson in a short series of Jeopardy! matches we saw the expert-system manage to answer a lot of questions quickly and correctly—but we also saw it make some extremely wacky mistakes. The lead researcher on IBM’s Watson project has been quoted saying that he doesn’t fully understand why Watson makes ...
Google Public Data Explorer Provides Extremely Cool Data Visualization
When it comes to dataset curation for public entities it’s generally up to them to purchase or learn software, run with it, and then publish their own results. Since public institutions generate a great deal of data, and generally run on statistics from economy to how to visualize population and government goals it’s extremely useful ...
Another Tech Hoax: Plan B’s Anonymous Author Bows Out with a Tweet
This is going to be the second time I’m going to say something to the ends of: Well, that didn’t last long. First, the Plan B website came out with its well written, eloquent, and argued manifesto citing the Shareholder Nine and their grievances with the current state of Nokia Corp. It took only 36 ...
Viewdle is Here to Mix Facial Recognition and Social Networking
Years ago, I watched an instructional video all about how to remember names. The video had been directed towards businessmen and salespeople who might have to recall the names of a host of people during their career, some people are talented at connecting faces to names—others, like me, do it poorly. Now, thanks to Viewdle, ...
IBM’s Watson Smart but Not Unbeatable, How Greg Lindsay Put Man Ahead of Machine
Monday night, February 14th 2011, we saw IBM’s natural language processing computer Watson go up against two Jeopardy! champs and whomp them solidly—until the final round when some sort of brain freeze hit the mechanical brains powerhouse and it mixed up the United States for Canada. However, that said, it proved a surprisingly amazing show ...
Nokia Shareholder Revolt and Effort to Ditch Elop “Plan B” Fold Up and Go Home
I don’t know if this news is disappointing or just a plain facepalm. It looks like the Shareholder Nine just don’t have the stomach to get their case argued and pled over a long term or they just didn’t mull it over so well, as after just 36 hours they’ve withdrawn their bid to oust ...