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DARPA’s Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) is soliciting proposals for a program called Real-World Reasoning, to “explore and develop foundations, technology and tools to enable effective, practical automated reasoning of the scale and complexity required for computers to perform complex tasks in the real world requiring intelligence.” “Specifically, the program intends to: 1. Develop and …
From the Legal Research Center press release: “More than two-thirds of U.S. legal professionals who work in organizations that have implemented a Knowledge Management (KM) system report that they use their KM systems either frequently or all the time, according to the results of the 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers – Legal Research Center Knowledge Management Study.” (Thanks …
The agenda for the conference, along with links to information about the speakers, is here. For a related article on the conference, see Business Blogs Provide Edge, Raise Questions.
Andrew Zangrilli’s new article in Modern Practice predicts the following trends for 2003 in law firm technology development: “1) more features and functionality added to existing technology; 2) unifying and consolidating disparate systems; and 3) more legal self-service applications.”
See What makes a weblog a weblog?, a succinct and informative article on the topic, as well as Blogs, Wikis and Knowledge Building, which compares and contrasts two applications whose audiences and authors are steadily expanding. In addition, Marking Out The Borders of a Weblog adds context and more definition to the discussion by referencing …
Broadening the Vision for KM (PowerPoint), by Tom Bartley, Sally Gonzalez, Peter Krakaur, and Pulling It All Together, STELLA – Knowledge Matters – A KM Case Study (PowerPoint), by Jean Anne McLeod.
An update on knowledge management incentives reviews the successes and failures of programs used by high profile companies such as Siemens and Hill & Knowlton to encourage and sustain employee participation in building intranets and knowledge manangement applications.
Business Is Toying With a Web Tool puts the spotlight on an innovative, user friendly open-source tool called a wiki, used to create inter-related web pages. Not new to the scene (the technology was first used in 1995), but perhaps ready to be embraced along the lines of blogging applications, wiki technology offers many interesting …
Released yesterday, an “itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence, and digitized manuscripts of his scientific writings, non-scientific writing, travel diaries.” See http://www.alberteinstein.info/
From this month’s InfoToday 2003, a pdf handout, “Knowledge Management at the Library,” from the Northern Suburban Library System, a “consortium of over 650 academic, public, school, and special libraries” in Illinois.
This interesting article from ComputerWorld, Blogs play a role in homeland security, talks about an enterprise blog software application that has been deployed by the Western States Information Network (WSIN), within the Oregon Criminal Justice Division, for law enforcement related efforts on terrorism and drugs. In addition, the article also mentions how bTrade Inc. is …
The scale, scope and challenges inherent in the successful implementation of large-scale e-gov initiatives is well defined by this article, NASA rethinks Web site approach, which states that “the agency has more than 3,000 Web sites hosting 4 million pages of information,” which it is now working to make accessible via the main website.
