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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 …
Books 1.Csikszentmihalyi M (1990) Flow: The pyschology of optimal experience. NY: Harper. https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202 Extracts: http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/nclb/title_i/a_basicprograms/schoolimprovement/transformation7flow.pdf 2.Hendy S, Callaghan P (2013) Get off the grass: kickstarting New Zealand’s innovation economy. Auckland University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Get-off-Grass-Kickstarting-Innovation/dp/1869407628 Review 1: http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2013/book-review-get-off-the-grass-by-shaun-hendy-and-paul-callaghan/ Review 2: http://sciblogs.co.nz/griffins-gadgets/2013/08/16/review-get-off-the-grass/ Weta Digital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital 3.Anderson JC, Kumar N, Narus JA (2007) Value merchants: Demonstrating and documenting superior …
ISSIP.org and Japan Science and Technology (JST) co-created a workshop and here is the report: (full text) http://www.jst.go.jp/crds/pdf/en/CRDS-FY2016-WR-13.pdf (summary) http://www.jst.go.jp/crds/en/publications/CRDS-FY2016-WR-13_EN.html Best Regards ___________________________________________________________________________ Naohumi,Yamada Center for R&D Strategy, JST Tel;03-6261-1858 FAX;03-5214-7385 E-Mail nyamada@jst.go.jp http://www.jst.go.jp/crds ___________________________________________________________________________
I have been asked to present an industry perspective on the need for T-shaped skills at a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) workhop on “STEM Integration Into The Liberal Arts.” Here is my presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/nas-integrated-education-20170406-v7 Here is a podcast (Dave Goldberg, Big Beacon/Whole New Engineer): https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/98248/exploring-service-science-and-cognitive-systems-an-interview-with-jim-spohrer In industry, we see the need for business, engineering, social …
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The key question: Who may share what information with whom for what purpose in what context and be on firm legal ground? (1) Who may – in the digital age we can all capture and share information more easily. (2) what information- even information that is captured digitally can be altered, or opinions can be …