Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. Student essay grade prediction has been developed for automatic grading.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Arthur Fry , a 3M employee, attended a Technical Council where Spencer Silver spoke about trying to develop a super-strong adhesive for use in building planes; instead, Silver accidentally created a weak adhesive that was a "solution without a problem." Thus was born the Post-it note. 3M also has a rich tradition of telling the.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Entrepreneurs have long been able to tap into a range of grants and related programs to help with early development activities. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

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