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Live from InterACT – Ian Ayres

April 28, 2008

I started with an interesting breakfast this morning with Ian Ayres and Larry Rosenberger. Ian is the author of Super Crunchers (reviewed here in the wiki) and Larry is a research fellow and ex-CEO of Fair Isaac. The two of them were great conversationalists and we ranged across randomized testing (adaptive control), the power of [...]

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Some thoughts on Adaptive Decision Management

April 22, 2008

Paul Haley wrote an interesting piece last week on Adaptive Decision Management. This is a really good piece and I highly recommend it. I do have a couple of things to add, however.
While Paul is correct that Fair Isaac did not talk about “decision management” until after the HNC merger, Fair Isaac had a long [...]

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Two Great Decision Management Conferences this year

April 17, 2008

I am involved in two great decision management conferences this year and I wanted to quickly post about them to encourage you to attend – apologies to readers of my other blogs who may see this information more than once.
First up is InterACT, Fair Isaac’s show on decision management and analytics, April 27-30. I will [...]

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COBOL Lives! In the business rules space at least

February 20, 2008

Well I guess it had to happen – ILOG joined Fair Isaac in releasing a COBOL code generator for its flagship rules product. I have not yet seen it in action (I am sure I will at DIALOG next week) but I have talked with product management at ILOG and seen the public information. [...]

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Fair Isaac acquires Dash Optimization

January 23, 2008

I heard today that Fair Isaac has acquired Dash Optimization. I don’t have many details – though I am hoping to get some – but there is a little information here and a press release here. I think this is an interesting announcement as it’s own optimization engine was one of the few holes in [...]

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