The data-information-knowledge-wisdom model puts artificial intelligence in its proper place. As a Marine Corps intelligence officer in my previous life, my job was to help senior leaders answer the ...

It’s not an accident that data is the bedrock of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid made famous by Russell Ackoff in 1989. That expresses the common conviction that data are the ...

We assume many of you are familiar with the work of Clifford Stoll, author of both “The Cuckoo’s Egg” and “Silicon Snake Oil.” The latter, which was written 15 years ago, stated, “the Internet ...

We have given up on the idea of organizing, editing or making sense of the data that is flooding the world; instead we've become creators and hoarders. As the world is flooded with information and ...