Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.
One of the more telling exhibits at April’s NTT Upgrade 2024 event in San Francisco was the Autonomous Closed-loop Intervention System (ACIS) in development at… Read More »Data management demand in digital twin-oriented intensive care units
Photo by Ernesto Andrade on Flickr Gartner’s April 2024 IT forecast estimated 8 percent growth from 2023 to 2024, forecasting $5.06 trillion in spending worldwide… Read More »Ten reasons organizations pay more in data integration tax every year
Illustration by Dirk Wouters on PIxabay I had the opportunity to attend Enterprise Agility University’s prompt engineering course in April. The course provided a helpful… Read More »Data fitness and its impact potential on enterprise agility
Photo by Hermann Traub on Pixabay Losing control of your company’s data? You’re not alone To survive and thrive, data likes to be richly and… Read More »Losing control of your company’s data? You’re not alone
Image by Steve Buissinne on Pixabay Lowest common denominator (LCD) data science is the unthinking variety of data science that doesn’t question the prevailing wisdom… Read More »Ways LCD data science undermines more thoughtful approaches to AI
Image by CDD20 on Pixabay Big tech has substantial influence over the direction of R&D in the US. According to the National Science Foundation and… Read More »R&D misdirection and the circuitous US path to artificial general intelligence
Some takeways after MEMCON 2024 Image by jeonsango on Pixabay During an interview by Brian Calvert for a March 2024 piece in Vox, climate lead… Read More »Gen AI’s memory wall
Interview with Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay At the beginning of his career, Dave McComb was having fun… Read More »GAI, application sprawl, and the universal need for data-centric architecture
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Assisted annotation and other automation methods that can be used for knowledge graph creation and natural language understanding should… Read More »Scaling understanding with the help of feedback loops, knowledge graphs and NLP
I’ve been interested in self-sovereign identity for a number of years now, ever since I interviewed Phil Windley, a founder of the Internet Identity Workshop… Read More »Mobile drivers’ licenses: A humbler take on self-sovereign identity and personal data protection
