Stephen E. Arnold: Search Hits the “Big O” – Robert Steele Comments on IT’s Three Sucking Chest Wounds

Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …

Review (Guest): The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the Business Alignment of Information Technologies

Paul Strassmann 5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves careful study–a powerful message about technology March 4, 1999 By Lou Agosta (lagosta@21stcentury.net) The main targets for Paul Strassmann’s unmasking of misconceptions about the business use of computers include the Gartner Group, advocates of Best Practices, and that mouth piece of computing vendors, the computing trade press …

Reflections on Data as the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, Machine or Man-Machine Translation, or M4IS2

It is fashionable now to talk about data as the new oil (or dirt), and to proclaim breathlessly that the ever-increasing masses of data allow for ever more wonderous things to be done including my personal favorite, situational awareness. However, no one is yet serious about holistic analytics (which also implies a holistic collection management …

Journal: Cyber-Counterintelligence Not Intelligent

More jerks advocating their wares….I have taught since the mid 1990’s that the greatest threat to computer security was the insider.  On one hand He/She has access and only need motivation to become hostile.  On the other hand, slovenly attitudes allow others, without access but motivation, to take advantage of the insider…..now all of a …

Search: carkhuff cleveland information technolog

Existing WordPress Search produces two hits: Review: The New Age of Innovation–Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks Review: Information Payoff–The Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age Although books are listed in the first and authors in the second, this is a good opportunity to list the very special group of books that have shaped–along …