http://radio.weblogs.com/0106294/ Copyright 2002 Bill Dauphinais Mon, 13 May 2002 21:00:21 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 w-dauphinais@kellogg.nwu.edu w-dauphinais@kellogg.nwu.edu Don't know how many folks have seen this, but check out kmworld.com (not sure if this has been mentioned in class or not). Even though I agree with the professor that there are not technologies that solve true problems here, there are pretty interesting technologies being developed nonetheless. One company worth pointing out is Insightful. They have a product called "Impact" that provides both similar and different functions as Watson, a product NU Information Lab has launched (the source of our class project). The company makes sort of a mockery of all of the ridiculous marketing buzzwords that go into all of these technology companies. On the company's webpage, this "quote" is front and center": "Whether you call it text mining, enterprise search, information retrieval, KM, or NLP, it's the hot, new segment in enterprise computing. But with countless vendors making similar claims, it's hard to tell who's out in front." Great point! I'm a 2nd year at Kellogg, with a background in technology and finance (equity research). I currently work for a hedge fund in Chicago part time. Formerly, I worked at Morgan Stanley in technology equity research. I'm interested in Knowledge Management because of the ineffectiveness of today's practices for data aggregation, mining, and analysis. Having worked on computer systems that attempt to solve this problem, I have seen the breadth and depth of the issue up front.