Frontiers in Service Conference 2018 http://www.frontiers2018.com NOTE!! Deadline for abstracts is February 1, 2018 2018 Frontiers in Service Conference  Call for Abstracts  https://frontiers2018.exordo.com/ The Frontiers in Service Conference is the world’s leading annual conference on service research. It is co-sponsored annually by the AMA Service SIG and the INFORMS Service Science Section. In 2018, the 27th …

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I am planning to visit JAIST Ishikawa campus Feb 27-28, and IBM Research – Tokyo March 1st, and evening JAIST Tokyo campus.  Coming soon information about the presentations I will be making.

Daniel Pakkala (VTT) and I are planning an Opentech AI Workshop at IBM Finland HQ on March 14th, 2018. Start End Activity Details Coming Soon 8:00 8:30 Registration 8:30 9:00 Welcome 9:00 10:00 Keynote1 10:00 10:30 Break1 10:30 12:00 Panel1 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 14:00 Panel2 14:00 15:00 Panel3 15:00 15:30 Break2 15:30 16:30 Keynote2 …

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(1) Artificial Intelligence Augmentation Carter, S., & Nielsen, M. (2017). Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence: By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning. Distill. https://distill.pub/2017/aia “In the 1950s a different vision of what computers are for began to …

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Hi All, Please help us evolve the ideas on this Opentch AI Blog website: http://opentechai.blog Thanks, Jim Spohrer (IBM USA) and Daniel Pakkala (VTT Finland)

A wide range of AI headlines in the popular press are pretty misleading…. designed for eyeballs and knee jerks, and not brains and thoughtful discussion. For example, in the headline below “without any help” … https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609141/alphago-zero-shows-machines-can-become-superhuman-without-any-help/ Here is a roadmap to “AI Solved” status based on back of the envelope calculations of amount of data …

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Dear Colleagues and Friends, I have a few exciting announcements: 1) Submit a paper to the LaLonde Service Conference – you can attend it just before the SERVSIG Conference in Paris in June 2018. 2) Get a free desk review copy of the new Essentials in Services Marketing, 3rd ed. 3) Download the paper on …

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Now organising the First Global conference on Creating Value at Leicester in the UK, May 23-24 2018 a few days before the EMAC conference in Glasgow starting May 29. In addition the Journal of Creating Value jcv.sagepub.com is proposing a special issue on the Role of Technology in creating/destroying value for November 2018. I am looking for a guest …

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Hope you can join us at PICMET’18 in the “paradise”, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018. The deadline for the submission of up-to 200 word abstracts is December 3, 2017. 200 word abstract deadline Dec. 3, 2017 for PICMET 2018, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018: http://www.picmet.org Dundar Kocaoglu ============================== Dundar F. Kocaoglu, …

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Imagination challenge: Consider quantifying and graphing the decreasing cost of digital workers due to Moore’s Law, and increasing GDP/Employees USA from 1960 to 2080 (projected). A narrow digital worker will cost about a million dollars by 2025, and require a petascale computational system.  The same digital worker will cost about a thousand dollars by 2045, …

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