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Breaking Down Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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In 1956 , “Artificial Intelligence” was officially coined by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon at the Dartmouth Conference. The conference is seen as the founding event of AI. In 2016 Google’s AlphaGo AI played a game of Go against world champion Lee Se-dol and won.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said on an earnings conference call Wednesday that the overstocking that weighed on the company last year was “in the rearview mirror” and that the retailer was turning toward getting fresh merchandise into stores for the fall.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

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Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Then in December 2016, one of the my predictions for 2017 was that “The Migration from Traditional User Interfaces to Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Begins.”. Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime (TechCrunch).

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? Another is that visibility enables companies to deliver an enhanced customer experience, which was the theme of this year’s conference.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. April 26, 2016 (today) marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

It echoed the title of my September 2016 post, “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. The Takeaway from CSCMP Conference: The Data Problem Runs Deep. Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference). Hospitals, Spanish Companies.” The Big (Crappy) Data Problem in Supply Chain Management.