Alexa and Artificial Intelligence
The new Echo Show arrived yesterday on schedule as promised by Amazon. My initial reaction was it is a bit clunky in size and shape, but it did not take long for me to become highly impressed. I took it out of the box, plugged it in, selected the WiFi access point, and did the […]
Medicaid and Poverty
Medicaid is an “entitlement” program. That means anyone who meets eligibility criteria related to poverty has a right to enroll and receive Medicaid coverage. It also means states have guaranteed financial support from Washington for part of the cost of their Medicaid programs if the states cover certain “mandatory” populations: Children through age 18 in […]
Medicaid
Medicaid is in the news every day. People, politicians, policymakers, providers, and payers are expressing points of view ranging from kill it to expand it. Unfortunately, most people are not well informed about what Medicaid is. I would like to help on the informing part of the issue by describing what it is, how it […]
Russian Hacking
As I described in an audio podcast last week (click here if you would like to listen to the interview), Russian hacking is not the most important story for the press to be spending so much time on. The Russians have been using propaganda and information related techniques to meddle for decades. That is nothing […]
Things Change
Graduating from engineering school and joining IBM were just two things of thousands which happened 50 years ago. Another was the beginning of OCLC. Over the decades the name of the organization has changed a number of times. Like IBM, Apple, and many other companies, the full original name has changed to something simpler and […]