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.
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
Interview with Ben Gardner of AstraZeneca Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Ben Gardner’s experience working with drug discovery teams goes back two decades, when… Read More »Scaling FAIR data sharing in an R&D culture
Image by atul prajapati from Pixabay February’s Enterprise Data Transformation Symposium, hosted by Semantic Arts, featured talks from two prominent members of pharma’s Pistoia Alliance:… Read More »The extensive scope of knowledge graph use cases
Image by 10302144 from Pixabay Eric Baum in his book What Is Thinking? defines understanding as “a compressed representation of the world.” Another word for… Read More »A neurosymbolic AI approach to learning + reasoning
Image by Cathrin2014 from Pixabay In July 2023, Teresa Tung, managing director and cloud-first chief technologist at Accenture, gave a Factory of the Future talk… Read More »Digital twins, interoperability and FAIR model-driven development
