Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants Still Open Thru 2017
Entrepreneurs / Science Guys (and Gals), Are you ready for a challenge, and 150,000 USD to begin to pursue your challenge? That’s just SBIR Phase I, Concept Development (~6 months). The second phase,...
View ArticleSmartphone AI Digital Assistant Encroaching on the Virtual Receptionist
Businesses already exist which have developed and sell Virtual Receptionist , that handle many caller needs (e.g. call routing). However, AI Digital Assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, Google Now, and...
View ArticleGoogle Search Enables Users to Upload Images for Searching with Visual...
The ultimate goal, in my mind, is to have the capability within a Search Engine to be able to upload an image, then the search engine analyzes the image, and finds comparable images within some degree...
View ArticleApplying Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to Data Warehousing
Protecting the Data Warehouse with Artificial Intelligence Teleran is a middleware company who’s software monitors and governs OLAP activity between the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools,...
View ArticleCloud Serverless Computing: Why? and With Whom?
What is Cloud Serverless Computing? Serverless computing is a cloud computing code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting and stopping virtual machines as necessary to serve...
View ArticleApache NiFi on Hortonworks HDF Verses … Microsoft Flow?
Attended a technical discussion last night on Apache NiFi and Hortonworks HDF, a Meetup @ Honeywell, a Hortonworks client. Excellent presentations from the Hortonworks team for “NiFi on HDF” solutions...
View ArticleHostess with the Mostest – Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana,...
Application Integration Opportunities: Microsoft Office, Google G Suite, Apple iWork Advice is integrated within the application, proactive and reactive: When searching in Microsoft Edge, a blinking...
View ArticleUnlikely Bedfellows as Net Neutrality Sunsets
Coupling Content Distribution (i.e. ISPs) with Content Producers Verizon FiOS offers Netflix as another channel in their already expansive lineup of content. Is this a deal of convenience for the...
View ArticleKODAKOne platform and KODAKCoin cryptocurrency | An Innovative Path Forward
The KODAKOne image rights management platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the...
View ArticleAkamai Cuts 5 Percent of Workforce as Q4 tops expectations | ZDNet
The company is cutting workers primarily in its media division as it aims to improve margins. The media division, Akamai’s unit that speeds up Web pages (including Video streaming), saw fourth quarter...
View ArticlePolitics around Privacy: Implementing Facial and Object Recognition
This Article is Not… about deconstructing existing functionality of entire Photo Archive and Sharing platforms. It is… to bring an awareness to the masses about corporate decisions to omit the advanced...
View ArticleMicrosoft Productivity Suite – Content Creation, Ingestion, Curation, Search,...
Auto Curation: AI Rules Engine Processing There are, of course, 3rd party platforms that perform very well, are feature rich, and agnostic to all file types. For example, within a very short period of...
View ArticleInformation Architecture (IA): the Classification of Information (Part 2)
Karl Smith has created this timeless post on Information Architecture, which is still relevant today. The below is an excerpt of his article I found relevant to the foundation of IA. To Each His Own...
View ArticlePopular Tweets from January and February 2018
Tweet Activity Analytics Leveraging Twitter’s Analytics, I’ve extracted the Top Tweets from the last 57 day period (Jan 1 until today). During that period, there were 46.8K impressions earned....
View ArticleInformation Architecture: An Afterthought for Content Creation Solutions
Maximizing Digital Asset Reuse Many applications that enable users to create their own content from word processing to graphics/image creation have typically relied upon 3rd party Content Management...
View ArticleBose AR, Audio Augmented Reality – Use Cases
I’ve been enamored with Bose products for well over a decade. However, we’ve seen quality brands enter the hi-fidelity audio market over that time. Beyond quality design in their classic audio...
View ArticleBlended Data Warehouse SW/HW Solutions Phased Into the Cloud
Relational Database Solutions “In a Box” Several of the relational database software vendors, such as IBM, Oracle, and Teradata have developed proprietary data warehouse software to be tightly coupled...
View ArticleMan Trains Dog. Dog Trains AI Model. Cats Rule the World.
Researchers Teach AI to Think like a Dog Source: Researchers teach AI to think like a dog and find out what they know about the world – The Verge Animals could provide a new source of training data for...
View ArticlePeople Turn Toward “Data Banks” to Commoditize on their Purchase and User...
Anyone who is anti “Big Brother”, this may not be the article for you, in fact, skip it. The Pendulum Swings Away from GDPR In the not so distant future, “Data Bank” companies consisting of Subject...
View ArticlePopular Tweets from March, April, and May 2018
Tweet Activity Analytics Leveraging Twitter’s Analytics, I’ve extracted my top Tweets from the last 91 day period. During that time there were 42.2K impressions earned. Looks like I took a slump on...
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