Yoda: Data Producing Intelligence — But Not in the “Intelligence” Community

Intelligence, this is. Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer Associated Press, Saturday, November 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model …

Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]

Open education has at least three components:  free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time).  More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous.  Open education has …

Search: M4IS2 [as of 20121013]

M4IS2 Definitions: M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making Graphic: Core Force for Multinational and Whole of Government Operations In “borderless” cyberspace, nation states struggle — M4IS2 Anyone? Multi-National Decision-Support Centres at P2P Foundation Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game Robert Steele: Data Is the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About …

NIGHTWATCH: A Brief History of Indicators Analysis

Special Comment: A Brief History of Indicators Analysis Compilation, examination and analysis of indicators of a nation’s war preparations, collectively, are the oldest structured analytical discipline in continuous use by elements of the intelligence agencies since 1947. The discipline began in World War II and British defense intelligence maintained it ever since. After World War …

Patrick Meier: Social Mobilization via Six Degrees of Separation with Comment

Six Degrees of Separation: Implications for Verifying Social Media Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment The Economist recently published this insightful article entitled” Six Degrees of Mobilisation: To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?” The notion, six degrees of separation, comes from Stanley Milgram’s [small world] …

Mini-Me: NATO Admiral Says the Future of Global Security is Strategic Communication — Robert Steele Corrects + META-RECAP

Huh? NATO Admiral Says the Future of Global Security is Strategic Communication Written by ruston on August 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment by Scott W. Ruston The title of this post is my interpretation of what ADM James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Commander of United States European Command (USEUCOM), says …