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This week I got emails from a number of colleagues pointing me to papers, books, and startup ideas about learning, education, skills, and the future…. finally had a chance to read through some of them more carefully this Saturday morning… Thanks for the emails from Obinna Anya, Ralph Badinelli, Bill Rouse, and just a few …
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Reaction to Kurzweil’s Linguistically Fluent posting… Kurzweil Linguistically Fluent: http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-reveals-plans-for-linguistically-fluent-google-software Kurzweil’s plan is a good plan from a Google Deep Learning perspective… The plan is an extension of the capabilities of seq2seq – sequence to sequence – which is good for DL translation between languages, for example. However, no one has solved Reasoning, which is …
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CFP: Journal of Enterprise Transformation – Role of Analytics Submissions Welcome: The Role of Analytics in Enabling Enterprise Transformation Deadline: 1 September 2017 Advanced analytics – from big data, to machine learning, to cognitive computing — is poised to and, in many cases, already is transforming enterprises in fundamental ways. Analytics is both an enabler …
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Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications https://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss17.php November 9-11, 2017 Washington, DC Cognitive Assistance is an important focus area for AI. While it has several facets and still lacks a precise definition (one of the reasons for this Symposium!), it has been called Augmented Intelligence, the automation of knowledge work, intelligence amplification, cognitive …
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Cheap AI/DL in the cloud leads to technology deflation driving costs out of service systems at all scales – so…. (a) AI will rapidly become a commodity decreasing the cost of nearly everything, (b) large companies will be transformed by automation and augmentation, (c) small companies will flourish and people will be involved in several …
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Colleagues, Hello! We are serving as a co-chair of the “Smart Service Systems: Analytics, Cognition and Innovation” minitrack in the Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science Track of the upcoming 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (http://hicss.hawaii.edu/), and writing to scholars such as you with expertise in various areas of …
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Best address is 900 Bernal Road, San Jose, CA 95120 – head to guard station at top of hill and give your name as visitor. Host must register all visitors name, title, organization, and citizenship with IBM Security in advance of any visit. Visitor badges can be picked up at the reception desk, look for …
I am trying to think hard about the 10 million minutes of experience that people go through to develop adult capabilities, as well as the 2 million minutes of experience from adult novice to adult expert – when people transition professions. Mapping these developmental progressions into capabilities, and then capabilities into technologies is quite challenging …
As context, consider (1) the rapid pace of development of Cognitive OpenTech and (2) the remaining Grand Challenges of AI/CogSci… Part 1: Cognitive OpenTech Progress Now consider the relative importance of big Data, Cloud compute power, and new Algorithms as a Service in making progress… we can call all these factors the DCAaaS drivers of …
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While leading IBM Global University Programs for seven years, my team and I developed the 6 R’s of industry-university programs: Research Readiness Recruiting Revenue Responsibility Regions These 6 R’s are described with examples in this presentation and this paper: T shaped people 20130628 v5 from IBM Paper: IBM GUP 5Rs copy 2 Click on the …