Political Taxonomy
Regardless of your political affilitation, if you have any at all, this entertaining and interesting take on another taxonomy piqued my interest, and hopefully will do the same for you.
Merging Art and Data
Harnessing the power of art, the Public Art Program of Albuquerque, New Mexico has been funding city-wide art on fire stations, libraries, and parks, with more […]
The Growing Deficit in Computer Science Education
In our increasingly globalized economy many career paths that seemed to offer security are today only offering uncertainty to recent graduates. Students graduating with degrees in teaching, law, and even human resources or business are finding stiff competition and few opportunities. Even in our stubbornly weak economy, job growth in computer science fields has continued steadily; yet even as computer usage becomes ingrained in nearly every facet of modern life, many graduates find themselves ill-equipped to take on the requirements of technology-based jobs.
The Government’s Role in the Web
Web content management may very well be in the hands of the government. That may concern you, but the new digital government strategy laid out by the Obama administration reads, "New expectations require the federal government to be ready to deliver and receive digital information and services anytime, anywhere and on any device."
Government Asked To Use Emerging Technologies
Semantic web technologies now make it possible to monitor just about anybody by anybody. This monitoring has also become very cost effective for the affluent and average citizens, which is a switch because these technologies have been widely used to monitor the weak, they have not been used to monitor the powerful.
Government Addresses Data Management
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
Access Innovations, Inc. Creates Taxonomy For Iowa Code, Administrative Code and Acts
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.
Opening the Channels of Communication
You think the left hand and right hand at your organization doesn’t know what each other are doing? Imagine how much government agencies keep their information “close to the vest.” Territories, power and influence are magnified in the nation’s capital and make your organizational silos look like Lego blocks. Now, don’t you feel sorry for the people responsible for managing government IT departments?
US Army & AI
Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army's Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.