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This blog post is a comment on the recent political debacle about the proposed Protect IP Act (PIPA) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) — two of the, in my opinion, most draconian breaches of privacy and civil liberties to ever emerge out of US politic…
Adrian Grigoriu wrote an article in eBizq titled Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education in Nov 2011 – http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/11/enterprise-architecture-and-higher-education.php. I have been meaning to write a supportive…
This was such a good question from Paul Beckford, in one of his comments on the previous post, that I thought it was worthwhile bringing it out into more accessible form here: “I don’t understand the recursion you speak of and the real time nature of decision making and how that is different from ‘considered’ […]
Seems that that Twitter-conversation about principles and decision-making just keeps on rollin’ on. Stijn Viaene kicked the ball rolling again with the following Tweet: destivia: @ebuise @tetradian @richardveryard Never forget a ‘model’ is always only a preliminary version of how we see or want to see reality. After which, yes, the whole happy ‘passel o’ […]
Imagine a future where robots run the hospitals as a way to cut health care costs. A robot ambulance pulls up to the door of the Emergency Room with an unconscious patient. The robot triage nurse connects electrodes to the patient and notic…
Not quite sure where this one started: probably from this Tweet a few days back by Anna Mar (@simplicableanna): simplicableanna: 7 Reasons You Need Architecture Principles http://bit.ly/xqzDkl #entarch Gerold Kathan retweeted it, and I passed it on again as what I thought of as a useful summary. Nothing unusual there. But then one of my […]
Guest post by Phil Garland I had the opportunity to have lunch with 8 chief financial officers in Denver last week. Our conversation started with why the CFO should care about IT and what they need to know about technology. Our discussion quickly got to the topic of the roles of the CIO in this changing world of cloud, mobility and social networking. These enabling technologies have made technology much more accessible to non-IT users […]
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This week on Active Information I riffed on a WSJ article that riffed on Daniel Kahneman‘s Thinking, Fast and Slow, which led me into the data scientist shortage and analytics-as-a-service.
Alas, as I didn’t lead with any of those buzzwords in the title, the post is sadly under-read. Anyway, the link and blurb follow. I’m off to hone my buzzword skills.
Quite possibly, we will find ourselves in a “there’s an algorithm to decide that” world. But, until the talent shortage is stemmed, we’ll need to get our rationality delivered.
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