Tweet In Part Two we explored the who, what, when, why and where of education and training, the five “Ws.” Clearly some of the Ws are very much debatable. For example, one can argue that when someone graduates from high school at the age of 18, he or she should be fully capable of functioning […]
Education, Training and the Five “W’s” – Part Two
Tweet In the previous column, we looked at the rapid growth of knowledge and the growing challenge of staying current in a knowledge hyper-expansion. The five “Ws,” or who, what when, why and where were not even mentioned, except collectively in the title. I believe exploring these areas is essential to the continued existence of […]
Education, Training and the Five “W’s” – Part One
Tweet In 1956, I started high school and among the first courses I took was world history. Being more interested in math and science, it did not receive my devoted attention and, besides, my half-brother was dating my history teacher. Then, one day, my father asked me a question about Socrates and Greek history. Much […]
Artificial Intelligence – Part Four
Tweet Previously we looked at presenting a consumer with a list of video program selections based on “preferences” of the individual consumer. The service being provided is essentially a “cloud library” of video programming with the “librarian software” helping in the selection process. Concurrently, the “cloud librarian” is collecting data about the collective consumers to […]
Artificial Intelligence – Part Three
Tweet In the previous post it became clear that the difference between humans and machines is the speed of processing data and information. A simple data point is really very simple and we humans can handle it very easily even if we do not understand the potential knowledge it conveys. If you go to the grocery […]
Artificial Intelligence – Part Two
Tweet In the last post we looked at the “human” machine in exploring intelligence and established that it takes roughly 18 years to program the machine to function in humanity and that learning by the complex computer called the brain never ceases until the machine fails completely. It is worthwhile to note that the earliest […]
Artificial Intelligence – Part One
Tweet In a previous post, I stated that this we would begin looking at artificial intelligence or AI. It was my belief that writing a bit (or byte) about AI would be easy, after all the term is used everywhere in advertising, it tells me what I like to watch on Netflix, and it is essential […]
Ethics, Technology and Time – Last Part
Tweet In the late 1980s, my group at LANL held a distance learning conference and engaged some of the distinguished attendees in a discussion of “distance medicine.” While it was totally imaginary, at least at that time, the response was very, very clear. In a remote community, an individual was studying medicine in pursuit of […]
Ethics, Technology and Time – Part Three
Tweet We take money for granted, not making or earning money but the physical item itself. Money represents an IOU from the issuing party. We have to go to the issuer and receive something of value in exchange for the physical stuff we call money. It is, in essence, a tangible substance we can carry […]
Ethics, Technology and Time – Part Two
Tweet People have been studying and debating ethics for a long time, at least relative to our perception of humanity. During this time period there has been a acceleration of the growth of technology. On September 8, 1966, the first Star Trek episode aired. In the Star Trek episodes a device called a communicator was […]
