Peter's Viewpoint

Whatever happened to the IA (Artificial Intelligent) systems, knowledge systems, or decision support systems that we all heard about in the previous decade and supposedly in use today?

Here we are sitting with super computers, cloud computing, and terabytes of data from scientific agencies all around the world.  Sure they share their data between countries but are they still doing manual correlations to figure out what is happening to our planet?
We read about the national pride of countries boasting their super computers achievements based on petaflops per second, computers capable of playing the ultimate Chess game, and other feats of information technology that simulate the human reasoning process, but when will answers to pending questions be produced?

What good is having such hardware if we are not using it to solve mysteries like earthquake prediction?  Not using this kind of technology is like a new computer users buying software just to surf the Internet.  I hate to say it but I have seen people inefficiently using Microsoft Word like a typewriter and not even bothering to use the spell checker.

Even the most inspiring scientists of our time cannot possibly be that knowledgeable to coordinate using their own area of expertise, other areas of expertise, with information technology to produce answers to questions regarding our planet.

The power of super computers should be allocated to an elite information technology and scientific group so that combined with adequate hardware and software system they can create a system that can be used to perform correlation analysis on the volumes of scientific data that currently exist in the time it takes you to read this.

Information Technology creates work; people without vision don’t see it!