Key Terms
The effort to develop computer-based systems that can behave like humans, with the ability to learn languages, accomplish physical tasks, use a perceptual apparatus, and emulate human expertise and decision making
What is artificial intelligence?
The company who created Watson
What is IBM?
Knowledge management has become an important theme at many large business firms as managers realize that much of their firm's value depends on the firm's ability to create and . . .
What is manage knowledge?
Appalachian State
Where is her favorite place to teach? (compared to Elon University, Guilford College, UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro!)
Certification Exam which earns you an increase in salary of over 6% if passed and is the new requirement of Walker Business School beginning in 2019.
What is Microsoft Excel ?
The cognitive and physiological event that takes place inside people's heads
Utilizes a new form of computing: cognitive computing
Massive speed and scale of decision making
Reliance on natural language
Reads and interprets text like we would
Actually understands context
Why is Watson different from traditional computer programs?
- Structured knowledge
- Enterprise content management (ECM)
- Digital asset management systems
- Learning management systems (LMS)
What types of systems are used for enterprise-wide knowledge management?
What is the highest degree each of her 3 children obtained?
What is a Master's Degree! (Having a professor as a mother is not easy!)
CIS 2050
What class are we in?
Knowledge that has been documented
What is explicit knowledge?
To understand certain data, Watson needs to understand . . .
What is context?
- Keeping the organization current in knowledge as it develops in the external world -- in technology, science, social thought, and the arts
- Serving as internal consultants regarding the areas of their knowledge, the changes taking place, and opportunities
- Acting as change agents, evaluating, initiating, and promoting change projects
What are knowledge workers and knowledge work?
Technical Consulting
What is the name of her Engineering and Consulting firm?
MIS stands for?
Management Information Systems
A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that acts as a problem solver by beginning with a hypothesis and seeking out more information until the hypothesis is either proved or disproved.
What is backward chaining?
- Follows the four steps humans follow to make a decision
- Depicts meaning of a text
- Understands the context of sentences
What are Watson's human qualities?
- the explicit knowledge that exists in formal documents
- the knowledge created by humans for other humans, typically in blogs, tweets, articles, etc.
What is the difference between structured and unstructured?
Halloween
What is her favorite holiday?
How do you spell the current date in five letters?
What is TODAY?
Is a rule-based technology that can represent such imprecision by creating rules that use approximate or subjective values
What is fuzzy logic?
Named after IBM’S first president
What is Watson?
The game Watson participated in February 2011
What is Jeopardy?
Texting and driving
What does she hate? (It took 3 years away from her life because a girl hit her car while texting and driving!) Don't ever text and drive!
CIS : Computer Information Systems
What is our professors department she works in?