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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their case argued and pled over a long term or they just didn’t mull it over so well, as after just 36 hours they’ve withdrawn their bid to oust ...
How Roku Brought Video Coverage out of Egypt and into the West During the Revolution
During the recent Egyptian revolution that involved mass protests in the streets, the current government had chosen to shut down the entire Internet feed to the country in an attempt to isolate them from the rest of the world. Along with the Internet shutdown came a great deal of obfuscation set over media coming out ...
Nokia Plan B, the Sound of a Shareholder Revolt
A group identifying themselves as “nine young Nokia shareholders” has written an open-letter to Nokia’s shareholders and investors in a blog post aptly named “An open letter to Nokia shareholders and institutional investors.” In their letter, they state that they plan to seek challenge the company’s current strategy at the next Annual General Meeting on ...
Brightstar Seeks to Turn Wireless Operators into Mobile Customer Whisperers with Big Data
With the slow rise of infrastructure supporting LTE networks, more-and-more manufacturers are building into the Internet of Things, and this means further pressure on wireless carriers to support the upcoming onslaught. On one hand, the Internet is facing a resource crisis when it comes to the IPv4 address space drying up; but on the other ...
Zynga Value Expands Beyond $7b, Seeks Another Round of Investment
Social media seems to be the boom child of the current flurry of investment and probably represents a bubble that a lot of investors are trying to pile onto. Current valuations place social-gaming developer, Zynga Inc.—the producer of such popular hits as Farmville and Cityville—somewhere between $7b and $10b. Right now they’re holding discussions with ...