by Dave McComb | Sep 5, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Most software projects start with an architecture. And most architectures are “stacks” as in “this is what our stack looks like.” This is where middleware, tools, languages and the like get decided. Two interesting things happen here. The first...
by Dave McComb | Aug 19, 2011 | The Whiteboard
I just saw an article that Foxconn (China’s largest private employer, and manufacturer of among other things the iPhone) has unveiled a plan to install 1 million robots in its assembly plant. (They currently employ 1 million employees) What’s wrong with...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Just read an interesting article: Refactoring the Law: Reformulating Legal Ontologies, by Garret Wilson, which was quite interesting. Wilson, presumably a nerd turned lawyer or vice versa, makes the case that the understanding and practice of law have been evolving in...
by Dave McComb | Jun 1, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Nearly 100 people in the international ontology community met this past April 18-19 at the sixth annual Ontology Summit to discuss “making the case for ontology.” In recent years the number of deployed ontologies has increased dramatically, yet the...
by Dave McComb | May 27, 2011 | The Whiteboard
There was an article in this month’s Harvard Business Review “What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women” “> The methodology of the study was they measured IQs of individuals and then sometimes randomly and sometimes not so randomly assigned them...
