David McCoy

I guest lectured tonight at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business – my other alma mater.  The topic – naturally – was business process management, and for over two hours, I subjected these undergrads to the history of BPM:  How the market of 1999 – 2003 emerged from the roots of application integration and [...]

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Syncretism is a term that is often used in discussions of how one religion adopts aspects of another.  It’s not often used in a positive way, as in, “Wow fellow syncretist!  Aren’t you glad we’ve adopted all these alien practices and created a mish-mashed perspective that makes everyone happy?”  However excited I am about religious [...]

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Scenario: Driving home late last night.   Listening to NPR when I could find it.  Heard a commentator say something to the effect of, “No Democratic president has ever won office without carrying the state of Missouri.”  Sudden urge to rip the radio from the dash and never listen to any newscast again.
I just searched for [...]

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I shot this photo earlier today, right after lunch.  As a “rules guy,” I was struck by the use of the modal verb “may.”  You remember modals?  They’re auxiliary words such as: can, may, shall, might, etc.  They’re used to express such things as possibilities and capabilities.  Here is a nice link to help jar [...]

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Yesterday, at the GTISC summit on emerging security threats, the panelists reminded us of just how bad it is out there.  Will my customers be vished?  Will the botnets infect my network?  Will some nation-state/criminal entity – ripe with script gurus – eat my lunch?  These kinds of threats continue to grow in number, sophistication, [...]

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Back in February, I attended an inaugural conference on “computational journalism.”  It was a hipster-meets-journalist-meets-professor scene and most of it was captured on live-streaming video, now archived for playback.  Since then, the name for the field has been morphing – as everyone tries to determine what this intersection means – but if you have any [...]

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