Saturday, October 22, 2011

BigData = HPC 2.0 and Network 2.0 and reduces healthcare costs

Mckinsey report on big data . http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/pdfs/MGI_big_data_full_report.pdf Excerpt from this.. For instance, if US health care could use big data creatively and effectively to drive efficiency and quality, we estimate that the potential value from data in the sector could be more than $300 billion in value every year, two-thirds of which would be in the form of reducing national health care expenditures by about 8 percent May be the republican candidates should study big data ; they are far easier to remember than three agencies...

Expert Systems to Generative AI — tiny steps that caused giant leaps in productivity

In the beginning, we wrote the rules by hand. The expert systems of the 1980s and 90s were magnificent and exhausting. You found the best pe...