Kyt Dotson, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Apple’s FaceTime for Mac Arrives in Mac App Store for $0.99 a Pop

By Kyt Dotson Feb 24, 2011

It’s become official, Apple just released FaceTime for Mac in the Mac App Store today. Now Mac OS X users can chat with other Apple customers on their iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. With…

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IBM’s Watson in Retrospect, Ken Jennings and Others Weigh In

By Kyt Dotson Feb 22, 2011

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…

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Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Could Open the Door for a PC App Store

By Kyt Dotson Feb 22, 2011

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…

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Generating Crowds: Astroturfing Propaganda Software and Social Media Collide

By Kyt Dotson Feb 21, 2011

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…

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UberTwitter and twidroyd Restored by Twitter, Blackberry Natives Still Restless

By Kyt Dotson Feb 21, 2011

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…

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What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?

By Kyt Dotson Feb 18, 2011

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…

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Google Public Data Explorer Provides Extremely Cool Data Visualization

By Kyt Dotson Feb 17, 2011

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…

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Another Tech Hoax: Plan B’s Anonymous Author Bows Out with a Tweet

By Kyt Dotson Feb 17, 2011

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,…

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Viewdle is Here to Mix Facial Recognition and Social Networking

By Kyt Dotson Feb 17, 2011

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…

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IBM’s Watson Smart but Not Unbeatable, How Greg Lindsay Put Man Ahead of Machine

By Kyt Dotson Feb 16, 2011

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…

Kyt Dotson

IBM’s Watson in Retrospect, Ken Jennings and Others Weigh In

Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Could Open the Door for a PC App Store

What Does IBM’s Watson Tell Us About Potential Future Expert-Systems?

Another Tech Hoax: Plan B’s Anonymous Author Bows Out with a Tweet

IBM’s Watson Smart but Not Unbeatable, How Greg Lindsay Put Man Ahead of Machine

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