How do we know? How do we learn? How do we think think?
How can computers think more the way we do, so that they can fit to us rather than us adjust to them?
Psychologists use a very consistent language when they talk about the functions of semantic memory, episodic memory, procedural memory, and [...]
Recently Manny Aparicio came together with other innovators in the energy sector for the GE Energy Summit.
According to Innovation Summit Organizer and Saffron Adviser Sammy Haroon, the goal of the Summit was to deliver two innovative solutions for GE Energy.
But unlike other summits, these tangible solutions included a business plan for [...]
As the world becomes increasingly volatile and risky, we are experiencing the failure of trusted models, methodologies and processes in every industry, and specifically in finance.
Data is being created on a real time, rapid basis. And if it is starting to influence the world that we live in.
The arrival of ‘big data’ raises the need for big individualized memories to leverage all that available experience.
Persistent, extreme risk is our new business landscape, and may well be for the foreseeable futu
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People are looking for the edge, where is the information that I can leverage to get ahead of the rest of the market? Unstructured data seems to be the untapped source, whether it is news, social or both.
The Financial industry clearly calls out for a new approach to predictive analysis or what Saffron [...]
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When I say social media most people think about engaging with their customers. A lot of the smart marketers are looking at how to take the data from social media and use that to make better, smarter marketing decisions. Paul Dunay, Networked Insights
For most brands when they think about social media, they [...]
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Forrester and Gartner have both talked about the small thinking about big data. Forrester also recently reported on Saffron regarding our approach for dealing with the diversity of data. The words ‘big’ and ‘data’ are the small thinking, a limitation. There is the dimension of the velocity of data, that is not just about the [...]
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You have to first understand that there is a plethora of information locked away in unstructured sources. The ability to get to that data is somewhat convoluted.
Saffron’s experience with national security pre-9/11 has highlighted this ‘big data’ problem particularly with data coming from news, email and many other sources of unstructured content. Saffron [...]
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