Category Archives: Knowledge
25 Jan Pure Democracy: a New World Disorder
Joe Roushar – January 2023 What are You Talking About? Is pure democracy possible in human society? Introducing everyone to a truly democratic society would put them on the same footing – provide a kind of equality and shared opportunity that philosophers have envisioned for millennia. Yet experience has shown us that some delegated decision […]
10 Jun Knowledge is the New Foundation for Success
Joe Roushar – June 2020 Retooling for The Beginning of a New Age This year, 2020 will be the turning point in AI adoption because successful implementations will be available to small and large organizations without breaking the bank. Success will be measured in specific business value achieved. Affordability will dramatically improve because of AI […]
01 May Intent Models for Competitive Advantage
Joe Roushar – May 2019 Competitive Advantage Is your organization ready for a future with significantly more advanced and competitive information management strategies? Are you ready for the inevitable turbulence that accompanies changes: even those that are mostly evolutionary, but some revolutionary? It’s time for Enterprise Information Management (EIM) to grow up and assume its rightful […]
08 Nov AI-BI-CI: Steps to Better Decisions
By: Joe Roushar – November 2018 AI: Artificial Intelligence Can you understand the things you observe and use them to make better decisions? Random colored dots that seem chaotic up close, when arranged by an artist in a pointillist painting, can become richly meaningful and appealing. The dots may have great variety in color and […]
12 Jul Anatomy of Insight: Prediction and Qualitative BI
Joe Roushar – July 2018 Not just any body Body is a versatile word as it has broad application. In the context of astronomy, we describe celestial bodies. In topographical mapping, there are bodies of water. But in my interactions, I most often encounter “body” in the context of human physiology. The word, “body” implies […]
02 Jul What’s in an EA Repository
Joe Roushar – July 2018 Context of Enterprise Architecture Understanding context of systems and data in an enterprise is essential for successful IT project alignment and portfolio simplification. Enterprise architecture frameworks such as Zachman, Archimate and TOGAF provide great mechanisms for documenting systems and data, and architecture diagrams are often worth much more than a […]
21 May What it Means to Be, and Why AI Needs to Know
Joe Roushar – May 2018 I relate, therefor I am Interaction between humans is intricate, intimate and beautiful. Good conversations are like dances and can leave one feeling fulfilled and whole. I have long wanted to build a system that can verbally dance with you. Even longer, one to rapidly translate what you say with […]
04 Jul Cognitive Multi-Processing
Joe Roushar – July 2017 Divide and Conquer Swarm computing applications, with large numbers of autonomous agents are beginning to appear and deliver stunning results. The combination of autonomy, simple tasks and parallelism has great power. Today I’ll address parallel computing and models for breaking down computational problems. I will not address the question of autonomy today, […]
07 Dec Curating Digital Meaning
Joe Roushar – December 2016 That should be in a museum I think of museums when I hear about curating. Meaning is, in a strange way, an artifact, simultaneously ancient and modern. Meaning has existed as long as perception has existed in the most rudimentary forms of life. For the purposes of my blog, I […]