If you’ve been in IT for a while, there’s a term you have likely heard called “paving the cow path.” It’s a concept I first wrote about back in the 1980s, and it comes from observing the path cows ...

Before we get to AI, let me tell you a story about a cow. Every day, the cow takes the same path across the field. It’s not straight, nor is it efficient, but it’s how the cow likes to dander.

Beth Killoran related HHS' IT infrastructure to a "cow path," and the latest technology to a sports car. "What happens when you take that new, great wonderful car and you put it on a cow path?" ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link There is a famous (and mostly apocryphal) set of stories about universities – sometimes it’s Tufts, sometimes Irvine, sometimes somewhere in … ...

“They just keep paving the cow paths!” I first heard this phrase over a decade ago in Boston, where every day I would commute to work through twisting, potholed, impossibly crowded roads. A colleague, ...