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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

1997: IBM’s “supercomputer,” Deep Blue, becomes the first computer to beat a human chess champion in a match against grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Many doubt that a machine could really have performed so well and accuse IBM of cheating. 2011: IBM Watson defeats the best human players in the popular television game show Jeopardy!

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A Network of Experts: From Content Curation to Insight Curation

CLO Magazine

analysis, at least 80 percent of companies acknowledge a critical need to redesign their traditional structure to create a network of experts for better, faster business decisions. Focus on building dynamic team effectiveness versus building individual knowledge and skills. IBM built this idea into its model as early as 2005.

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3 Reasons why online training is cost-effective

Matrix

Running a business is no smooth ride. The best business leaders are the one who manage to get a balance between the effervescence, constant change and human nature of the people in their organization and all the business data and rational decisions they have to make in order to keep the company moving forward.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

In the Business of Learning , I asked: While training as a publisher of courses and courseware faces an increasingly challenging market, what other things can learning businesses successfully sell to internal or external customers? Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 The goal is achieving the outcomes you seek.

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Big literacy questions

Jay Cross

is more than a sack of tools: it’s becoming the basic paradigm for doing business. Global business is shifting out of the industrial age and into the network era. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. No, no, no, no.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/1/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

The debate about the 'knowledge economy' is full of 'slovenly thinking and careless assumptions', The Work Foundation alleges today. Innovation overload - Business Week. And so is IBM with its big innovation marketing campaign. Clean air gardening and the future of shared experience - InfoWorld with Video.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

information/knowledge workers. Managing Wikis In Business. Linking Training to the Business Goals: In-Depth Descriptions of How IBM, Toyota, and Others Earn Executive Support for Training. To create a place for informal learning. For leadership development. For professional development. need access to SMEs.