Knowledge Rocks!

I came across this story in Scientific American about how a group of mathematicians work together to solve (math) problems. Two cases are presented: the case of French mathematicians working together; and the other a more recent Internet-based collaboration: From the April 2010 Scientific American Magazine Problem Solved, LOL Blog comments point to a new, [...]

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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” ~~ attributed to Benjamin Franklin

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I came across an article in the April issue of Wired, Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage.In this article, Clive tells the story of how, after having been beat by IBM’s Deep Blue, Garry Kasparov observed that “(H)uman smarts and silicon smarts work in very different ways” — “which gave Kasparov an intriguing idea. Instead [...]

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I had the great fortune to listen to Steve Podborski, the first non-European World Cup Champion (1982), of the Crazy Canucks (CCs) ski team speak at a dinner a few years ago. I was reminded of this watching their story on the bio channel. I remember Steve talking about one thing that made the CCs [...]

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In an article related to the Digital Health counterpoint in Business Week, the role of physicians and their status is examined [Doctors' Pride: A Hurdle to Digital Medicine -- A forerunner in New England found that some physicians would sooner cut ties than see their elite status threatened]. It seems that a number of physicians [...]

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One of the challenges facing public health is the early recognition of problems. With the benefit of hindsight, we look back at outbreaks such as SARS and now more recently Swine Flu (H1N1) and we can see the information trail that precedes the Eureka moment or discovery point. In retrospect, with SARS, there was chatter [...]

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As swine flu (or should I be calling this H1N1) was at the top of the news, I saw this story on TV about a genetic scientist who was riveted to his computer screen watching the genetic sequence of the virus as it was changing. He has these strings of numbers and characters coming up [...]

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Kimiz Dalkir at McGill once told me she collected definitions for Knowledge Management. At the time she published her excellent book (Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice) she had collected and catalouged over a hundred definitions. When we spoke, I believe she had over 180; most of which were different. In part, this demonstrates the [...]

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Here is a presentation I gave at the Housing Memory student conference at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto. Enjoy. The Need To Forget View more presentations from Joel Alleyne.

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Seems that the slides I posted on SlideShare about a career in Knowledge Management got promoted and featured on their Career page. It will be there for the day, but you can also find it through my blog post below Permalink: http://www.joelalleyne.net/2009/02/16/kmdi-alumni-presentation-january/ SlideShare link: http://www.slideshare.net/jalleyne/how-can-studying-knowledge-media-design-help-you-with-a-career-in-km?type=presentation. Joel

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