The Whizbang Weekly

  • Executive Guide to Cognitive Computing Part 5

    Recommended Strategic Planning and Considerations for Cognitive Computing Projects In order to proceed one must start to define the use case (business problem) and more importantly what is the question or questions that need to be answered.  As mentioned earlier cognitive computing is a new focus on knowledge or information automation vs. Process automation that…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Executive Guide to Cognitive Computing Part 4

    Five Dimensions that Cognitive Computing will evolve in Public Sector programs As Cognitive Systems get deployed into Public Sector programs they will continue to evolve over time due to the nature of algorithmic programming and natural language processing of information.  Cognitive systems are dependent upon a feedback loop and as such these dimensions will have…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Cognitive Computing in Public Sector

    Challenges to Cognitive Computing in Public Sector The challenge in today’s world of improving or innovating government programs is that we have a broad array of information and process automation to co-ordinate.   Another major challenge of being in a data driven world is that information can be wrong, false, incorrect, out of date or inaccessible. …

    Campbell Robertson

  • What is Cognitive Computing and Why Should Program Executive Care ?

    What makes up Cognitive Computing Cognitive Computing is comprised of three main functional areas.  Which are: natural language processing, machine learning and hypotheses testing.  All three functions of cognitive computing combine to provide greater flexibility.  This helps address a broader array of business problems in public sector. Business problems that could not have been solved earlier.  Natural…

    Campbell Robertson

  • An Executives Guide to Cognitive Computing Part 1

    What you need to know about Cognitive Computing Part 1 In the coming weeks I will lay out an explanation and recommendation on what and how Cognitive Computing can be used.  As always I look forward to comments and thoughts raised. Technology continues to develop and improve in how we interact with systems and people. …

    Campbell Robertson

  • Dragnet past and future

    When driving home at nights I have found that Spotify can stream old time radio shows into my car.  As I gleefully tapped on one of the first episodes of Dragnet; broadcast in 1949.  I was surprised and amused to hear Sergeant Joe Friday discuss putting his suspect’s profile and MO into “the IBM machine”…

    Campbell Robertson

  • IBM supporting SPARK

    Working with our Government clients worldwide I have seen great innovative Big Data projects.  As data volume and algorythms get more complex the need to manage those interactions have put a strain on the existing technologies.  Today IBM announced support for SPARK.  This is a very exciting announcement and I encourage you to learn more…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Big Data Reality

    When working with government clients it amazes me the broad description and ideas that are included in talking about big data.  The biggest hurdle to these types of projects is that IT or a program lead has an idea for data analysis but culturally the agency or program is not thinking about what Big Data…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Back to the Future

    I know I have not posted in quite some time.  A few changes have occured in that my responsiblity at work as broadened to include more of the analytics offerings from IBM.  This move is exciting and has opened my eyes to the great things that governments are doing worldwide in the areas of Big…

    Campbell Robertson

  • Internet of Things (IoT) – Designing Pri

    Internet of Things (IoT) – Designing Privacy and Security Into Devices | The National Law Review: IBM Edition http://ow.ly/K3Zhc

    Campbell Robertson