Category: Security

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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The Military/Market Nexus

As Tom Barnett and I meet with government, non-government, and commercial groups, we often talk about the importance of the military/market nexus. The military-market nexus includes the relationship between security and commerce,

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He Hit Me First

In a very interesting op-ed piece, Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert discusses the psychology behind retribution [“He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t,” The New York Times, 24 July 2006]. In a

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Security and Privacy

Life is filled with tensions, some good and some not so good. Creative tensions, for example, help generate innovations and those who must deal with them are seldom complacent. One of the

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Resilience and WMD Threats

An article in yesterday’s Washington Post [“The End Is Near, But First, This Commercial,” by Libby Copeland], talked about a SciFi Channel-sponsored discussion about doomsday scenarios that attracted a large Washington, DC,

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Gallimaufry I

Gallimaufry is a hash made from leftovers. Over the years the term has also come to mean a hodgepodge. Occasionally I want to be able to address a hodgepodge of items that

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Man versus Machine

The immigration debate is raging, both in Congress and in communities across the country. On one side are the xenophobes who misuse Robert Frost’s poetry, declaring, “Good fences make good neighbors.” On

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