Well-formed data Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media The Turing Test for artificial intelligence is a reasonably well understood idea: if, through a written form of communication, a machine can convince a human that it too is a human, then it passes the test. The elegance of this approach (which I believe is its primary attraction) is that it avoids any troublesome definition of intelligence and appeals to an innate ability in humans to detect entities which are not 'one of us'. This form of AI is the one that is generally presented in entertainment (films, novels, etc.). However, to an engineer, there are some problems with this as the accepted popular idea of artificial intelligence. I believe that software engineering can be evaluated in a simple measure of productivity. We either create things that make the impossible possible - going from 0 to 1, or we create things that amplify some value, generally a human's ability to do something, - going from X to nX.
FlowingData | Visualization and Statistics All Systems Down A blow-by-blow record of one of the worst health-care IT crises in history and what CareGroup CIO John Halamka learned from it. Reader ROI What can happen if an old network is asked to carry new applications How standard disaster recovery protocols can fail Lessons learned from the four-day crisis Among the 30-odd CIOs who serve Boston’s world-famous health-care institutions, John Halamka is a star among stars. All of this has earned Halamka a considerable measure of renown. Two months later, Beth Israel Deaconess experienced one of the worst health-care IT disasters ever. This crisis struck just as health-care CIOs in the US are extending their responsibilities to clinical care. “Everything’s the Web,” Halamka says now. “I made a mistake,” he says. wednesday On November 13, 2002, a foggy, rainy Wednesday, Halamka was alone in his office at Beth Israel when he noticed the network acting sluggishly. Halamka’s team decided to begin shutting down virtual LANs, or VLANs. Traffic stopped.
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