By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider During the Cold War era, the Soviet military doctrine was one of strict control by the central Soviet command. All decisions about the use of military force had to be first approved by Soviet commanders at the highest levels of the hierarchy, and there was little if any […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I am very active in my alma mater. I serve on several alumni boards and committees, and try to support the youth of today that will soon be the inventers and innovators of tomorrow. As a mentor for our campus start-up incubator, it is exciting and refreshing […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider There is an ongoing joke among Southern California drivers that when the rain comes along we freak out and don’t know what to do (this might be as much a local joke as it is an East Coast view of those “crazy” drivers on0 the West Coast). With […]
When my children were in their teens, I used to shuttle them all around town for various before-school and after-school activities. My son would need to get over to the baseball field for practices and games. My daughter was in a performing arts program as a lead actress and would need to get to her […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Years ago, I did some computer consulting work for a chemical company. It’s quite a curious story and one that went into the record books as a consulting engagement. The way it began was certainly an eye opener. An executive at a company that I had been doing […]
By Michael B. Eliot Foreword by Dr. Lance Eliot: As the AI Insider and a regular columnist for AI Trends, I am pleased to provide you with a posting that was written by a guest author, Michael B. Eliot. In his article, he discusses several key aspects about Expert Systems, a long-time and formative topic […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider There was a dog on the freeway the other day. I’ve seen a lot of items scattered on the freeways during my daily commute, including lawn chairs, ladders, pumpkins (a truck carrying Halloween pumpkins had gotten into an accident and spilled its load of pumpkin patch pumpkins), […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Where am I? I know that I am standing in a dark room. It is so dark that I cannot see anything at all. I was led into the room while wearing a blindfold. Once inside the room, I was walked around in a circuitous manner, making numerous […]
By Dr. Lance B. Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Let me begin by saying that I believe in Occam’s razor. A variant is also known as Zebra. I’ll explain all of this in a moment, but first, a bit of a preamble to warm you up for the rest of the story. Self-driving cars are […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider I was on the freeway the other day and traffic was moving along rather smoothly. Even though there were quite a number of cars on the road, we were all doing a steady 55 miles per hour. That’s an accomplishment in the crowded freeways of Southern California. Some […]
