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Does most software die young?

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jacobfeldman

This article by Allan Kelly discusses a provoking statement “Most software has a very short lifespan“. “Most software isn’t successful and therefore dies. Software which isn’t used or doesn’t generate enough benefit is abandoned, modifications cease and it dies. Successful … Continue reading →

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A Farewell to In-Person Conferences? Anti-notes from DecisionCAMP-2020

Posted on September 22, 2020 by jacobfeldman

This year almost all major conferences went virtual. Our 12th DecisionCAMP-2020 on June 29-July 1 in Oslo also went virtual and became a kind of success. No wonder: the registration count was 3-4 times larger than usual, people did not … Continue reading →

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Lex Fridman: Escaping the Local Optimum of Low Expectation

Posted on April 3, 2020 by jacobfeldman

Many of well-known experts in the knowledge representation, decision management, machine learning, and AI in general are interested to know what is in the mind of the next generation of AI researchers. Lex Fridman is a young but already well-known … Continue reading →

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DecisionCAMP is Back on Track: 100% Virtual and 100% Free

Posted on March 28, 2020 by jacobfeldman

DecisionCAMP-2020 will be 100% virtual and 100% free! We will keep the same dates: June 29-July 1. As you don’t have to travel anymore, consider to submit an abstract of your remote presentation – the submission deadline has been extended … Continue reading →

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Book “Business Rules: Management and Execution”

Posted on October 18, 2019 by jacobfeldman

This book “Business Rules: Management and Execution” has been just published at Amazon.  It consists of 2 parts: Part 1: Business Rules Management Part 2: Execution. Award Winning Case Studies Link

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Notes from DecisionCAMP-2019

Posted on October 5, 2019 by jacobfeldman

DecisionCAMP-2019 in beautiful Bolzano on Sep. 17-19 will go down in history as one of the most successful DecisionCAMPs. As usual, it was packed with interesting presentations and even more interesting formal and informal discussions. I will try to write … Continue reading →

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DeepMind’s Losses and the Future of AI

Posted on August 14, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Wired just published an article that analyzes  how the recent DeepMind’s losses will affect AI in general. “The investment community notices significant losses; if DeepMind’s losses were to continue to roughly double each year, even Alphabet might eventually feel compelled … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Specification and Querying

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Our colleagues from the Rules and Reasoning community have just reported interesting results. They built a system that achieves 100% accuracy on an extensive test suite of movie-related questions, e.g. “Who appears in a Steven Spielberg directed film?”. Their approach … Continue reading →

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Rolando’s Tales from the Rule Trenches

Posted on June 3, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Rolando Hernandez, a highly experienced business rules consultant,  shares his “True Tales from the Trenches“.  Here is a monologue of the decision table from his first tale “A Rule is Born“: “If only someone had tested all the possible combinations … Continue reading →

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The Future of DMN: an interactive discussion at DecisionCAMP-2019

Posted on May 24, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Gary Hallmark, the author of DMN FEEL and a co-chair of the DMN standard committee, will run an interactive discussion “DMN 2.0?” at DecisionCAMP in September.  “In DMN’s 8 year lifespan from RFP to version 1.3, many features, changes and … Continue reading →

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