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Neil Movold

What is Collective Intelligence? - 0 views

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    "Intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual minds.   It also arises within groups of individuals and this phenomenon can be quite powerful.  For a number of months Imagination for People has been working on software that will facilitate the creation of what is called 'collective intelligence.' In preparation for the launch of this software, we thought we would take some time to introduce the I4P community to collective intelligence (CI) and show off some of its benefits.  "
Neil Movold

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    In short, software is eating the world.
Neil Movold

Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms - 0 views

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    Lately I've been working on evaluating and comparing algorithms, capable of extractinguseful content from arbitrary html documents. Before continuing I encourage you to pass trough some of my previous posts, just to get a better feel of what we're dealing with; I've written a short overview, compiled a list of resources if you want to dig deeper and made a feature wise comparison of related software and APIs.
Neil Movold

An Ontologies Architecture for Ontology-driven Apps - 0 views

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    For some time now, Structured Dynamics (SD) has been touting the unique advantages of ODapps, or ontology-driven applications [1]. ODapps are modular, generic software applications designed to operate in accordance with the specifications contained in one or more ontologies. The relationships and structure of the information driving these applications are based on the standard functions and roles of ontologies (namely as domain ontologies), as supplemented by UI and instruction sets and validations and rules. When these supplements are added to standard ontology functions, we collectively term them adaptive ontologies [2].
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What is a Learning Management System (LMS)? - 0 views

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    Wikipedia defines a learning management system (LMS) as: "A software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content." What that means is that the right learning management system can help you better reach your training/education goals whether they are focused on continuing education, eLearning availability, synchronous or asynchronous learning, mobile learning, certification programs, or even eCommerce and more, learning management systems are designed to provide the features you need to make sure your unique learning goals are met and a positive ROI is achieved. An LMS is a branded, secure extension of your organization's training/education effort to deliver content and materials in an easy, professional, managed and accessible manner - for users and administrators. 
Neil Movold

Co-Founder of Siri: Assistant launch is a "World-Changing Event" (Interview) - 0 views

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    Perhaps the biggest announcement at Apple's iPhone event on Tuesday will be Assistant, Apple's evolution of the Siri Personal Assistant Software. Siri, you'll remember, is the company Apple picked up for a rumored $200 million in April of last year for, in Steve Jobs' words, its "Artificial Intelligence", not search or speech recognition.
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Machines do the math, but not the thinking! - 2 views

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    A big problem with contextualizing information is that machines still cannot think. They are only able to do calculations, so everything we do to contextualize data in a software system must be "reduced" to statistics and mathematics. When a certain problem cannot be solved using mathematics (and there are many of them!) then the user must jump in.
Neil Movold

The Future Of Technology Isn't Mobile, It's Contextual - 0 views

  • It’s called situational awareness.
  • Our senses pull in a multitude of information, contrast it to past experience and personality traits, and present us with a set of options for how to act or react.
  • it selects and acts upon the preferred path. This process—our fundamental ability to interpret and act on the situations in which we find ourselves—has barely evolved since we were sublingual primates living on the Veldt.
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  • Our senses aren’t attuned to modern life. A lot of the data needed to make good decisions are unreliable or nonexistent. And that’s a problem.
  • contextual computing
  • Always-present computers, able to sense the objective and subjective aspects of a given situation, will augment our ability to perceive and act in the moment based on where we are, who we’re with, and our past experiences. These are our sixth, seventh, and eighth senses.
  • These merely scratch the surface. The adoption of contextual computing—combinations of hardware, software, networks, and services that use deep understanding of the user to create tailored, relevant actions that the user can take—is contingent on the spread of new platforms.
  • It’s interesting because it’s always with the user and because it’s equipped with sensors.
  • It’s a cultural moment that’s not dissimilar to the way in which graphical, and then networked computing, were introduced in conceptual and technical forms 10 years before reaching commercial success.
  • identified four data graphs essential to the rise of contextual computing: social, interest, behavior, and personal.
  • There are legitimate ethical concerns about each of these graphs. They throw into relief the larger questions of privacy policy we’re currently wrestling with as a culture: Too much disclosure of the social graph can lead to friends feeling that you’re tattling on them to a corporation.
  • In an ideal contextual computing state, this graph would be complete—so gentle nudges by software and services can bring together two people who are strangers but who could get along brilliantly and are in the same place at the same time.
  • Given that psychology still struggles to explain exactly how our personal identities function, it’s not surprising that documenting such information in a computable form is slow to emerge.
  • A more successful example is Evernote, which has built a large business based on making it incredibly easy and secure to document both recently consumed information and your innermost thoughts.
  • It cannot yet tackle the way your curiosity might lead you to new directions. And it could never effectively recommend a restaurant or a vacation spot based on what it knows you read.
  • As Bill Gates astutely pointed out, "There’s a tendency to overestimate how much things will change in two years and underestimate how much change will occur over 10 years."
  • By combining a task with broad and relevant sets of data about us and the context in which we live, contextual computing will generate relevant options for us, just as our brains do when we hear footsteps on a lonely street today.
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    "NEXT UP: MACHINES THAT UNDERSTAND YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT, ANTICIPATE YOUR BEHAVIOR AND EMOTIONS, ABSORB YOUR SOCIAL GRAPH, INTERPRET YOUR INTENTIONS, AND MAKE LIFE, UM, "EASIER.""
Neil Movold

Social Learning Value Explained - 0 views

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    Do you find that your employer is resistant to incorporating social learning tools to enhance the business?  Maybe, we just need to communicate the value better. First of all, let's get on the same page with what 'social learning' even means. Wikipedia defines social learning as:  learning that takes place at a wider scale than individual or group learning, up to a societal scale, through social interaction between peers.
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