As I research the history of cognitive assistants, these blog posts by Franz Dill and one more by D.J. Powers are interesting, relating to executive information systems to help CEO’s in the pre-spreadsheet era of computing, as well as executive decision support systems: Early Business Intelligence Needs http://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/search?q=brad+butler A Slice of the History of Executive …

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Jim Spohrer DRAFT  05/25/2014 07:13 AM Cognitive Systems for Every Profession The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) contains hundreds of short paragraph description of occupations.  For example, Architect (001.061-010): Researches, plans, designs, and administers building projects for clients, applying knowledge of design, construction procedures, zoning and building codes, and building materials: Consults with client to …

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1. Guinan, E., Boudreau, K. J., & Lakhani, K. R. (2013). Experiments in open innovation at Harvard Medical School. MIT Sloan Management Review, 54(3), 45-52. ” But in February 2010, Drew Faust, president of Harvard University, sent an email invitation to all faculty, staff and students at the university (more than 40,000 individuals) encouraging them …

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I just read the three articles by Prof. Ashok Goel (Georgia Tech): Goel, A. K., Vattam, S., Wiltgen, B., & Helms, M. (2012). Cognitive, collaborative, conceptual and creative—four characteristics of the next generation of knowledge-based CAD systems: a study in biologically inspired design. Computer-Aided Design, 44(10), 879-900. As I read this article, the first thing …

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Hopefully, someone will start a better discussion thread on the history of cognitive assistants, but here is a starting point or baseline discussion.   This very short history of cognitive assistants will examine instances of cognitive assistants.  By instances, we simply mean named systems, projects, or challenges.   However, first we must drive a stake in the …

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Here is a short talk I give at universities and university incubators, and conferences that bring such groups together. I lead IBM’s Global University Programs and Cognitive Systems Institute, as well as active in ISSIP.org and service science/service innovation areas. IBM priorities are CCAMSS = Cognitive, Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social, Secure – and the service …

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AHFE HSSE-2015 is less than a year away. This is a multi-conference with over 2000 participants, with human-factors as an overall theme, and the human-side of service engineering as one of the conferences. I hope to organize the following session as part of AHFE HSSE-2015, so let me know if you would like to contribute …

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Companies often ask about IBM’s efforts in the area of Service Science and Big Data Analytics, so here are a few useful pointers:   Service Science IBM works with over 500 universities worldwide on service science related courses and programs. An overview of service science was created with Cambridge University in 2008, and can be …

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