By Ryan Welsh In 2018 I was an applied math and quantitative expert that worked for a prestigious law firm in New York City. The Friday before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and kicked off the 2008 global financial meltdown, I was tasked with reading around three years’ worth of information in three days to […]
In 1976, a computer scientist named John Sowa wrote a groundbreaking paper for the IBM Journal of Research and Development called “Conceptual Graphs for a Data Base Interface.” The paper was the culmination of research he had been doing since 1962 for IBM’s applied mathematics group. In the paper, Sowa introduced the conceptual graph, a […]
Can artificial intelligence help in the pursuit of truth? What is truth? How do we know when a thing is true? Philosophers have debated these age-old questions for centuries. The ancient Greeks believed a statement was true if it conformed to an external reality — in other words, a statement was true if it accurately […]
As founder and CEO of Kyndi, Ryan Welsh maintains a high standard of company performance. “Our goal is to make people one hundred times faster and one hundred times smarter,” he says. The secret sauce for people of the future will be their work sidekick — artificial intelligence, in the form of a machine-driven sidekick. […]