Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo courtesy of Pixabay Author: Cameron Boozarjomehri When you look at the image above, what you see is just a wolf in the snow. How do you know it’s a wolf in the snow? Well, I could go off on a long tangent about how your eyes receive light that your brain...
Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Photo courtesy of Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei Chances are, you’ve interacted with an embedded system today. Did you use a thermostat? How about a car? Or maybe a mobile phone? Or a television, a game console, an elevator, a train, a pacemaker? Embedded systems are...
Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Lisa Pacitto Blockchain has essentially created a new type of internet in which information can be widely distributed without relying on traditional centralized architectures. Media coverage of Bitcoin, the digital currency (or cryptocurrency) for which...
Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo licensed under CC BY-NC-SA Author: Dr. Jennifer DeCamp On March 12, 2018, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group announced: “We find that our latest neural machine translation system has reached a new state-of-the-art, and that the...
May 13, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Intelligent voice assistants like Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are quickly becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Echo adoption has increased by three hundred percent in the past year alone. These on-demand, cloud-based voice services can tell us the weather,...
Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
It’s both less scary and more thrilling than you might think—and we’ve been living with nascent versions of machine learning for some time in the form of cognitive assistance tools. Spellcheck, for example, and the suggestions for replies that Gmail now displays are...
Mar 23, 2017 | Analytic Tools, Blog
In Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert observed that “Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.” Referring to the painful misconceptions that arise when we use...
Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Cognitive assistance isn’t mainstream yet, but decision support tools that enable decision-makers to understand tradeoffs in multiple dimensions are available. Shawn Chin and Rick Haberlin, who built one such tool, make the case that “engagement requires visualization...
