» Getting Real About Using AI To Support Project Management: Designing a Baseline Demonstration Project
12/06/23 17:19 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D.* and Michael Kaplan, PMP**  Background  In Envisioning the Future of Project Management with "ProjectAI": A Bold Leap into AI-Driven Success Michael Kaplan proposed using AI tools such as ChatGPT to...

» Using the Carrot & Stick Approach to Encourage Research Transparency
06/06/23 12:43 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald According to a recent report in SCIENCE titled NIH toughens enforcement of delayed clinical trials reporting a number of clinical trials investigators have not been reporting results to ClinicalTrials.gov , a databa...

» Can research transparency & AI defend against fake science?
30/05/23 11:25 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald Increasing fakery According to the recent SCIENCE article  Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common  there is increasing evidence that more fake scientific papers are making their way into refereed sci...

» Stakeholders & Independent Film Festivals
08/05/23 17:16 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald Recently my wife and I were suprised to receive an email from director Michael Moore announcing the shutdown, after 20 years, of the Traverse City Film Festival . Our attendance at that festival years ago was what g...

» Who cares about magnetic meteorites?
22/04/23 10:57 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D McDonald I’ve always had a strong interest in science. It started in childhood in a household that valued reading, books, and education. My dad regularly took my brothers and me outside at night to look at the stars and plane...

» Orchestrating AI Large Language Model Tools to Enhance Project Management Document Creation
10/04/23 12:53 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D.* & Michael Kaplan, PMP** Overview We are investigating the use of rapidly evolving large language model tools such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 to help automate creation of project planning documents. We’re encou...

» Findability: NIH Wants Your Thoughts on "Enhanced Public Access to NIH-Supported Research"
24/03/23 11:15 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald The US Government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has formally announced its Request for Information on the NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access to the Results of NIH-Supported Research . From the introduction: N...

» Ensuring Trust in AI-Mediated Communication: The Challenge Is Now
20/03/23 13:51 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald If it looks like a human, talks like a human, and acts like a human -- is it a bot? I received a request last week from a stranger to connect via LinkedIn. My first thought was, “Is this person whom I don’t know rea...

» TikTok and Challenges to Social Media Disentanglement
17/03/23 15:41 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald Observing international efforts to remove supposed security risks associated with use of TikTok is an interesting experience given my own past use of social media. I don’t use TikTok myself but was once a frequent u...

» Some Folks Just Don't Want to Pull Back the Identity Curtain
02/03/23 12:10 from Dennis McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY - PMandSM
By Dennis D. McDonald I have enjoyed reading “letters to the editor” in newspapers since I was a kid. I like reading what other people think on important topics, especially when pieces are well written and well thought out, even if I dis...