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08.13.10What Does Technology Want? Change, and Lots of ItAt the Techonomy conference in California last week, there was a stack of galleys (pre-publication review copies, for those who don't speak bookese) of Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants on a table just outside the main meeting room. What technology wants, I thought at the time, is for publishers to provide e-book galleys so I don't have to haul stacks of paper across the country (we've actually started doing that at the Harvard Business Review Press, I discovered midway through writing this post). So I left Kelly's book on the table, and on the flight back to Boston instead read David ...
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07.27.10Why China Might Never Protect IPIn the past couple of years, the jawboning directed toward China has moved on from IP infringement — stealing content! — to currency manipulation — stealing jobs! Last month, China found a way to blunt the pressure without actually doing very much, announcing that the value of the RMB would no longer be fixed against the dollar, but would float at a carefully managed level — not yet noticeably different from the fixed value. And this may be essentially the same tack China has taken with the IP issue. While various efforts to tighten IP rights enforcement have been publicized, ...
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07.27.10Why China Might Never Protect IPIn the past couple of years, the jawboning directed toward China has moved on from IP infringement — stealing content! — to currency manipulation — stealing jobs! Last month, China found a way to blunt the pressure without actually doing very much, announcing that the value of the RMB would no longer be fixed against the dollar, but would float at a carefully managed level — not yet noticeably different from the fixed value. And this may be essentially the same tack China has taken with the IP issue. While various efforts to tighten IP rights enforcement have been publicized, ...
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07.20.10How Semantic Clustering Helps Analyze Consumer AttitudesCan algorithms suss out how people feel about big issues like the recession? Maybe. In a study last year my colleagues and I at the Global Attitudes Project analyzed attitudes toward the recession and recovery using an emerging process called semantic clustering. Crudely, semantic clustering is a software technique that allows computers to understand sentences and their meaning. It groups similar text across many, many documents, and creates a statistical profile of the frequency and proximity (or co-occurrence) of all the themes in those documents. Under the hood, it looks like this: first, we create a lexicon of terms relevant to an ...
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CIO at Shine Lawyers
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Executive MBA from QUT
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