Alan Morrison
@alanmorrison.bsky.social
Research Analyst · Data Consultant · Writer · Public Speaker
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I'll be presenting on decentralized AI trends today at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern at BrightTALK's virtual Edge AI Summit. It will be a contrarian point of view on hybrid AI's accuracy at the edge. Register now at www.brighttalk.com/webcast/679/...
Decentralized AI: The Future of Edge Computing
As breakthrough technologies like AI mature, they inevitably evolve from centralized to decentralized architectures. With global edge computing spending projected to reach $378 billion by 2028, organi...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I'll be presenting on decentralized AI trends today at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern at BrightTALK's virtual Edge AI Summit. It will be a contrarian point of view on hybrid AI's accuracy at the edge. Register now at www.brighttalk.com/webcast/679/...
The contrarian, neuro-symbolic AI approach grounds neural nets with symbolic AI or knowledge representation.That’s a blending of pattern recognition facility with desiloing, disambiguation and reasoning at scale.
More on the contrarian AI in my latest post at lnkd.in/gStNh5JR
More on the contrarian AI in my latest post at lnkd.in/gStNh5JR
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November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The contrarian, neuro-symbolic AI approach grounds neural nets with symbolic AI or knowledge representation.That’s a blending of pattern recognition facility with desiloing, disambiguation and reasoning at scale.
More on the contrarian AI in my latest post at lnkd.in/gStNh5JR
More on the contrarian AI in my latest post at lnkd.in/gStNh5JR
Tietoevry, Cognizone, Semantic Partners, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, EPAM Systems, and Zenia Graph have built intelligent apps with Talk to Your Graph. TTYG today (Wednesday) at the Graphwise webinar. Live session begins on the half hour. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
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November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Tietoevry, Cognizone, Semantic Partners, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, EPAM Systems, and Zenia Graph have built intelligent apps with Talk to Your Graph. TTYG today (Wednesday) at the Graphwise webinar. Live session begins on the half hour. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
Neurosymbolic (NeSy) knowledge graph-based systems take advantage of the power of LLMs by using them as capable front-end chatbots, but they add the ability to use internal business data that simply can’t contain massive numbers of examples.
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What’s behind the geospatial reasoning in Google Earth AI? - The GraphRAG Curator
When Gemini does reasoning, can first responders rely on that reasoning?
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November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Neurosymbolic (NeSy) knowledge graph-based systems take advantage of the power of LLMs by using them as capable front-end chatbots, but they add the ability to use internal business data that simply can’t contain massive numbers of examples.
graphrag.info/2025/10/31/w...
graphrag.info/2025/10/31/w...
Tietoevry, Cognizone, Semantic Partners, Enterprise Knowledge, EPAM Systems, and Zenia Graph have built intelligent applications using Graphwise's TTYG (Talk To Your Graph) feature.
See how smart apps take advantage of TTYG on Wednesday at the Graphwise webinar. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
See how smart apps take advantage of TTYG on Wednesday at the Graphwise webinar. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
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November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tietoevry, Cognizone, Semantic Partners, Enterprise Knowledge, EPAM Systems, and Zenia Graph have built intelligent applications using Graphwise's TTYG (Talk To Your Graph) feature.
See how smart apps take advantage of TTYG on Wednesday at the Graphwise webinar. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
See how smart apps take advantage of TTYG on Wednesday at the Graphwise webinar. Register here: lnkd.in/dPs98cYd
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Ernst & Young (EY) couldn’t take on a firmwide, full-blown knowledge graph project and succeed in building such a graph without sufficient data maturity and culture.
In that sense, the KM organization made the adoption of knowledge graph-based AI possible.
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In that sense, the KM organization made the adoption of knowledge graph-based AI possible.
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GraphRAG Compare and Contrast: AWS/Lettria versus the EY/Graphwise Approach
I had the opportunity recently to ponder what Amazon Web Services (AWS) is doing with GraphRAG in association with its partner Lettria. In this post, I’ll make a direct comparison of this AWS…
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August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Ernst & Young (EY) couldn’t take on a firmwide, full-blown knowledge graph project and succeed in building such a graph without sufficient data maturity and culture.
In that sense, the KM organization made the adoption of knowledge graph-based AI possible.
graphrag.info/2025/08/25/g...
In that sense, the KM organization made the adoption of knowledge graph-based AI possible.
graphrag.info/2025/08/25/g...
Interested in peoples' thoughts on the Microsoft Common Knowledge Graph and the related Dataverse agent-based automation strategy. Following in this thread is the MSFT summary:
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July 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Interested in peoples' thoughts on the Microsoft Common Knowledge Graph and the related Dataverse agent-based automation strategy. Following in this thread is the MSFT summary:
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I like graphics this that quickly inform me on a topic where I'd be helpless to estimate the answers but now I know.
May 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I like graphics this that quickly inform me on a topic where I'd be helpless to estimate the answers but now I know.
Background on my Brighttalk tomorrow at 10am Pacific on a better way to think about agentic AI and enterprise transformation, with a knowledge graph foundation that alleviates many issues with agents and LLMs.
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I'll be kicking off my Brighttalk tomorrow at 10am Pacific with some… | Alan Morrison
I'll be kicking off my Brighttalk tomorrow at 10am Pacific with some perspective about agents, and what preconditions enterprises need to have in place in order to benefit from safe, effective age...
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May 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Background on my Brighttalk tomorrow at 10am Pacific on a better way to think about agentic AI and enterprise transformation, with a knowledge graph foundation that alleviates many issues with agents and LLMs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanmo...
www.linkedin.com/posts/alanmo...
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is it my imagination or is it just a lot of podcasters interviewing other podcasters now?
May 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
is it my imagination or is it just a lot of podcasters interviewing other podcasters now?
I like how Raymond Chandler began work on a novel: Start with a scene, a setting, sharp dialogue, a form of tension worth exploring, and an understanding of some elemental truths and rules of thumb.
More from my Quora answer to www.quora.com/Is-it-better...
More from my Quora answer to www.quora.com/Is-it-better...
Is it better to develop the story or the characters first when writing a novel?
Alan Morrison's answer: I like how Raymond Chandler began work on a novel: Start with a scene, a setting, sharp dialogue, a form of tension worth exploring, and an understanding of some elemental trut...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I like how Raymond Chandler began work on a novel: Start with a scene, a setting, sharp dialogue, a form of tension worth exploring, and an understanding of some elemental truths and rules of thumb.
More from my Quora answer to www.quora.com/Is-it-better...
More from my Quora answer to www.quora.com/Is-it-better...
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This is great second-monitor content for folks who like background noise when they’re working!
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March 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is great second-monitor content for folks who like background noise when they’re working!
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SoSy2025 Privacy Session
SoSy2025 Privacy Session
The Privacy & Personal Data Management Session of the Solid Symposium 2025 aims to bring together technical and legal-ethical experts to discuss Solid as a concrete system for data governance, to…
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SoSy2025 Privacy Session
Most companies still don’t acknowledge the nature or the depth of the true AI challenge they face. Ultimately, it’s not an algorithm or machine learning challenge. Instead, it’s a people, process, data resource and app rationalization challenge. My latest:
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What’s behind the AI adoption and hiring challenge in organizations? - DataScienceCentral.com
PickPik, royalty-free, undated Companies for a decade now have been thinking they have to adopt AI, or they’ll get left behind. But most still don’t acknowledge the nature or the depth of the real cha...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Most companies still don’t acknowledge the nature or the depth of the true AI challenge they face. Ultimately, it’s not an algorithm or machine learning challenge. Instead, it’s a people, process, data resource and app rationalization challenge. My latest:
www.datasciencecentral.com/whats-behind...
www.datasciencecentral.com/whats-behind...
Here's an interesting use of the word "wench" encountered during genealogy research. Huguenot Jacob Michaux owned 400 acres via land patents and slaves in the late 17th and early 18th century. An excerpt of Michaux's will refers to wenches Nell and Lusey.
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What is the history of "wench" being used in the English language?
Alan Morrison's answer: You could look an earliest found reference up in the Oxford English Dictionary, which includes the etymology of words. I could do it for you, but would suggest you do so yourse...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Here's an interesting use of the word "wench" encountered during genealogy research. Huguenot Jacob Michaux owned 400 acres via land patents and slaves in the late 17th and early 18th century. An excerpt of Michaux's will refers to wenches Nell and Lusey.
See more at www.quora.com/What-is-the-...
See more at www.quora.com/What-is-the-...
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Back in 2020, we looked at data showing how the number of Fall "fire weather" (high winds, low humidity) days in California will double by the end of the century.. and the fires raging in LA right now started _outside_ the standard September-November high-FWI szn.
New Maps Show How Climate Change is Making California’s “Fire Weather” Worse
On California’s fall fire days — days with high temperatures and wind speeds, as well as low humidity — all it takes is a spark from a downed power line to start an inferno. New research indicates tha...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Back in 2020, we looked at data showing how the number of Fall "fire weather" (high winds, low humidity) days in California will double by the end of the century.. and the fires raging in LA right now started _outside_ the standard September-November high-FWI szn.
Events such as Quantum 2 Business (Q2B) 2024 persuade me that the day scientists do manage to run Shor’s encryption breaking algorithm -– the day known as “Q-Day” -– is getting closer. Maybe it’ll be in five years, maybe less.
So what should companies be doing to upgrade? See shorturl.at/fNZV3
So what should companies be doing to upgrade? See shorturl.at/fNZV3
Quantum computing’s status and near-term prospects (Part II) - DataScienceCentral.com
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Why today’s pre-quantum encryption now faces a Y2K scenario I had the opportunity to attend the Quantum to Business (Q2B) 2024 Silicon Valley event in December 2024,...
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January 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Events such as Quantum 2 Business (Q2B) 2024 persuade me that the day scientists do manage to run Shor’s encryption breaking algorithm -– the day known as “Q-Day” -– is getting closer. Maybe it’ll be in five years, maybe less.
So what should companies be doing to upgrade? See shorturl.at/fNZV3
So what should companies be doing to upgrade? See shorturl.at/fNZV3
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Moments before you see a targeted ad online, your personal information is being exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers. Learn how to protect yourself.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
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January 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Moments before you see a targeted ad online, your personal information is being exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers. Learn how to protect yourself.
Effective agency is something previous generations of chatbots have lacked. But 2024 has ushered in a new generation of AI assistants and agents powered by large action models (LAMs).
A recent post of mine for Data Science Central.
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A recent post of mine for Data Science Central.
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Large action models and the promise of true agency - DataScienceCentral.com
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay In September 2024, Salesforce AI Research EVP and Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese posted at the Salesforce 360 site on the rise of large action models (LAMs). Among ...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Effective agency is something previous generations of chatbots have lacked. But 2024 has ushered in a new generation of AI assistants and agents powered by large action models (LAMs).
A recent post of mine for Data Science Central.
www.datasciencecentral.com/large-action...
A recent post of mine for Data Science Central.
www.datasciencecentral.com/large-action...
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Coming up in an hour: @pacoid.bsky.social will be presenting 'Catching bad guys using open data/open models for graphs' at #PyDataGlobal using data from @openownership.bsky.social, @opensanctions.bsky.social and @icij.org, plus entity resolution, KuzuDB, LanceDB global2024.pydata.org/cfp/talk/XMU...
Catching Bad Guys using open data and open models for graphs PyData Global 2024
Entity resolution (ER) is a complex process focused on data quality, used for constructing and updating knowledge graphs (KGs). GraphRAG is a popular way to use KGs to ground AI apps. Most GraphRAG tu...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Coming up in an hour: @pacoid.bsky.social will be presenting 'Catching bad guys using open data/open models for graphs' at #PyDataGlobal using data from @openownership.bsky.social, @opensanctions.bsky.social and @icij.org, plus entity resolution, KuzuDB, LanceDB global2024.pydata.org/cfp/talk/XMU...
So many of the wealthiest market cap leaders in 2024 are focused on data-driven, machine-assisted intelligence. What does this concentration of tech sector wealth imply for data science?
My latest for Data Science Central:
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My latest for Data Science Central:
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Data science implications of a second gilded age - DataScienceCentral.com
Wirestock on Freepick Mark Twain coined the term The Gilded Age when he published his 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Between 1870 and 1914, the US experienced an unprecedented amount of i...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
So many of the wealthiest market cap leaders in 2024 are focused on data-driven, machine-assisted intelligence. What does this concentration of tech sector wealth imply for data science?
My latest for Data Science Central:
www.datasciencecentral.com/data-science...
My latest for Data Science Central:
www.datasciencecentral.com/data-science...
Though Apple and Samsung lead with generative AI in their messaging about their AI-enabled phones, it’s clear on-device knowledge graphs are a key way they hope to deliver better accuracy, personalization and data security....
My latest post for DSC:
www.datasciencecentral.com/samsung-and-...
My latest post for DSC:
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Samsung and Apple’s knowledge-centric approaches to secure, personalized AI on phones - DataScienceCentral.com
Image by David from Pixabay Mobile phones make it possible to secure and manage personal data on-device, which opens up a novel opportunity for both phone owners and device manufacturers: AI personali...
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November 19, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Though Apple and Samsung lead with generative AI in their messaging about their AI-enabled phones, it’s clear on-device knowledge graphs are a key way they hope to deliver better accuracy, personalization and data security....
My latest post for DSC:
www.datasciencecentral.com/samsung-and-...
My latest post for DSC:
www.datasciencecentral.com/samsung-and-...
Making good choices about learning models isn’t going to get any easier. I appreciated the methodical nature of the Datasaur approach, which provides a wide range of selection criteria and opens up private options that might not have occurred to you.
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What to consider when selecting a learning model - DataScienceCentral.com
Image by Malachi Witt from Pixabay I had the chance to listen to a talk that Ivan Lee, Founder and CEO of Datasaur, gave during October 2024’s AI Summit here at the Computer History Museum in Mountain...
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October 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Making good choices about learning models isn’t going to get any easier. I appreciated the methodical nature of the Datasaur approach, which provides a wide range of selection criteria and opens up private options that might not have occurred to you.
www.datasciencecentral.com/what-to-cons...
www.datasciencecentral.com/what-to-cons...