Death by proxy
“This year, our priority is customer experience. Everything we do must connect to that.” “We’ll upgrade the network in a neighborhood when the bandwidth utilization exceeds 80%.” “I’m going to get rich, then I’ll...
Category: Specific Domains
Single link think
In the swirl of events, I’m often left wondering if there’s something deeper going on. Our leaders seem to be increasingly missing the bigger picture. A glimpse, here and there, into the underlying cause...
Pulling Back the Curtain on #MachineLearning Apps in #Business
Please enjoy this interview broadcast today with me and Daniel G. Faggella of TechEmergence. I touch on intelligence augmentation (IA), machine learning in vision, text, and other domains, the emerging decision intelligence ecosystem, the...
From maker space to solver space
Conferences are for meetings. Project teams build deliverables. Data is for data scientists. Online communities are for social contact. Until now, when a new mix is emerging. Can we solve difficult problems in a...
Decision intelligence for data center disaster planning
Much of the world’s information is handled in data centers: nondescript on the outside, indoors you’ll find a din of humming machine in acres of racks. If an earthquake or other natural disaster should...
The World Resources Sim Center: on its way to Silicon Valley
Last month I received an intriguing email inviting me to an event at Kimberly Wiefling’s house. I’d met Kimberly before through Jonathan Trent, as part of the work I’ve been doing to help out...
Miracles and wonders: deep dreams, label machines, and my new super-super-super computer
2015 was a turning point year for machine learning. Check it out:
What causes the technology hype cycle (and what to do about it)?
The Internet of Things…Machine Learning…Self-Driving Cars…Artificial Intelligence…Big Data…Smart Cities…Decision Intelligence…my friends talk to me about their excitement about a whole lot of trends. But which ones are real, and which will fizzle? Before founding...
Guest post: Can technology help fix us?
No matter whether you pull for Donald or Bernie or are an “occupier” or a “tea partier” or anywhere in between, you have to admit that we have a problem. The system is broken,...
Data from the future in the presidential race
Looking back on the presidential election of 2012, one view of the Obama win is to attribute it to his team’s understanding of a phase shift in electoral dynamics: Democrats looked at historical turnout...
