Travis Wetzel

Ash’s program used machine learning just to come into existence. Martha’s friend (?), allowed the program to have access to Ash’s social media to become “program Ash”. From there Martha fed the program videos of ash that it then created a voice with. Throughout every exchange that Martha had with program Ash, the software was learning and evolv…[Read more]

I feel that Driver-less cars is one of the most important innovations over the last few years. Ride share services like Uber and Lyft has flipped the taxi industry upside-down by employing everyday people to act as drivers, and it would appear as though they are going to change the game again with driver-less cars. If driver-less cars are able to…[Read more]

I work for a company that manufactures and ship office furniture all over the country and an ERP system be extremely helpful to my every day job (they are actually in the process of implementing one with Oracle). When working in an industry that requires manufacturing of a product, in my case most of the time it is custom product, bad data could…[Read more]

The other areas that I could see decision trees being helpful is when you determine what a system will need. When you are putting together a system you can look at it visually and determine what you will actually need and what various options need to be included.

At my current job I feel that swim lanes would be more helpful. In fact, I’ve used swim lane diagrams several time over the course of the past year. Every 3 month we have these events called “Kaizen events” where we try and take a manufacturing process and and eliminate waste, making it more efficient. The first step we usually use to determine…[Read more]

I am currently an Strategic Lead Account Manger at an office furniture company called Knoll. We manage projects all over the globe and we do so by using a business system that was created to be Y2K complaint. It both looks and preforms like something that was created back in 1999. MIS is currently playing a very large part in my current career.…[Read more]