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Chris Hawkins

Automating my Home with HomePod, Raspberry Pi and Node.js

In my home I have Apple HomePod, which allows me to control parts of my apartment (like my Hue lights) by calling on Siri from anywhere in…

6 min readJan 29, 2019

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Automating my Home with HomePod, Raspberry Pi and Node.js

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Chris Hawkins

Recognising Beer with TensorFlow

One of the demonstrations we have in Accenture Labs showcases a screen, with a camera which you can show a beer. The screen then recognises…

6 min readSep 23, 2016

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Recognising Beer with TensorFlow

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Chris Hawkins

How do we protect workers in the freelance economy?

Customer behaviour and analytics isn’t all we look at in Accenture Labs.

1 min readJul 20, 2016

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Chris Hawkins

Playing with Siri: Apple’s Missed Opportunities

Anyone who reads this blog will know how much I anticipated the launch of SiriKit, the SDK that allows us, the developers of the world, to…

5 min readJul 2, 2016

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Playing with Siri: Apple’s Missed Opportunities

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Chris Hawkins

Paging Brands: Your Next Digital Channel is Coming

In 2008 Iron Man showed us the dream of a fully personalized artificial intelligence-based assistant (and not for the first time on film)…

5 min readApr 20, 2016

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Paging Brands: Your Next Digital Channel is Coming

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Chris Hawkins

Work Lunch: Now selected for you by the Customer Genome

This is a story from Customer Genome research and development. The Accenture Customer Genome is now a powerful personalization platform we…

5 min readApr 12, 2016

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Work Lunch: Now selected for you by the Customer Genome

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Chris Hawkins

Bringing Maps Indoors … No Hardware Required

Despite the fact that I have spent a chunk of my career and blog real estate talking about beacons, I have recently noticed a trend that…

3 min readNov 6, 2015

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Bringing Maps Indoors … No Hardware Required

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Soaring with Zeppelin

Three Easy Steps to Setting up an Interactive Environment for Big Data Exploration and Analysis

7 min readSep 7, 2015

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Soaring with Zeppelin

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Chris Hawkins

Exploring Eddystone and the Physical Web

Why we should not get too excited (yet)

4 min readAug 4, 2015

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Exploring Eddystone and the Physical Web

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Chris Hawkins

Facebook and the Future of Beacon Technology in Retail

Microlocation technology, which provides the ability for a mobile app to tell exactly where someone is and respond accordingly, is one of…

4 min readJul 17, 2015

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Facebook and the Future of Beacon Technology in Retail

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Chris Hawkins

Chris Hawkins

Engineering Manager at Meta . Australian in NYC, by way of Melbourne and San Francisco. Fan of brunch. Views are my own. He/him.

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