Wikis in the Workplace

While looking for another subject I came across this website, bnet.com. It has a lot of information for several business topics. Below is the link for a blog related to wikis in the workplace and the potential divide due to generation gaps, etc.


http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=101&tag=nl.e713

Expert Systems in Industry

Chapter 2
Expert Systems in Industry

You can download it from here :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Expert+Systems+in+Industry

Expert systems

Expert systems in the food industry

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3301/is_n4_v96/ai_17015546

Expert systems have a number of definitions, but essentially they're software programs that capture as much of the total ability of a human expert as possible, beyond textbook knowledge or written instructions. A successful system combines the experience, knowledge, insights, intuition and educated guesses of the expert.

"Expert Systems, which are the most commercially successful result of research in Artificial Intelligence, are software entities that emulate the cognitive abilities of human experts in complex decision making situa-tions. As one of the primary activities of Computer Science and depend-ent heavily on the rapid developments in computer technology, Expert Systems have been eagerly adopted by industry and applied to a wide range of applications. Expert Systems belong to the field of Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems that constitute one of the principal fields of activity of Computational Intelligence, a field which has been referred to as the science that attempts to reproduce human intelligence using com-putational means. " (chapter2 experts systems in industry)

the best known expert system in the food industry is the system developed for Campbell Soup in the mid-1980s by Dr. Richard Herrod at Texas Instruments.

Real World Expert System

Here are some examples of applications of expert systems in the real world. I found them on generation5.org and have provided a link below for more information.

In summary, an expert system in agriculture, education, environmental management and medicine are being used widely throughout each industry. The implementation of these expert systems has greatly benefited each respective industry.



http://www.generation5.org/content/2005/Expert_System.asp

Wikipedia

Here's an interesting article about Wikipedia and some of the issues related to Wikis from The Economist (it's under free content):
http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8820422

Wiki vs Blogs

Understandably, this is not too helpful on the day of the exam; however, I found this website that I found summarized both wikis and blogs fairly well:
http://199.17.178.148/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsandwiki.pl?WikiAndBlog