1. Christensen CM (2007) How will you measure your life. Havard Business Review Classics. Boston MA. Christensen CM (2010) How will you measure your life. harvard business review. Jul 1;88(7-8):46-51. https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Harvard-Business-Review-Classics/dp/1633692566/ “On the last day of class, I ask my strudents to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves, yo find cogent answers to three questions: …

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There is a lot of speculation about jobs of the future.  It may look a lot more like hobbies, areas of interest people invest in, than current jobs that pay us for doing what others need done. How might one approach rethinking education and future jobs?  Here is one framework based on the social, mental, …

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Investment in smart, people-centered service systems (NSF): 2016 $13M:  https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189628 2015 $10M:  https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136268 Would be great to get funding up to $100M a year from ~$10M  year over the last few years. Smart service systems = socio-technology systems with artificial intelligence/machine learning to augment people in their social roles, where economics and public policy are …

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Spangler S, Wilkins AD, Bachman BJ, Nagarajan M, Dayaram T, Haas P, Regenbogen S, Pickering CR, Comer A, Myers JN, Stanoi I (2014) Automated hypothesis generation based on mining scientific literature. InProceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining 2014 Aug 24 (pp. 1877-1886). ACM.  URL: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alacoste/files/p1877-spangler.pdf This early …

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The eight unsolved grand challenges of AI/CogSci are readily apparent if one watches a child growing up to adulthood, and noticing capabilities that arrive at different ages. The list below provides a set of goals for students building open source AI software for smartphones.  Moreover, to stimulate university startups, students should be learning to build, …

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Alan Kay one of my mentors at Apple during the 1990’s was well-known for saying the best way to predict the future is to invent it….. President James Mellinchamp (Piedmont College, Georgia) just sent me this nice list of 55 jobs of the future, by Futurist Thomas Frey: http://www.futuristspeaker.com/business-trends/55-jobs-of-the-future/. What I especially like about the …

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From bottom (longest time on list) to top (shortest time on list)… I try to re-read once a year if I can… https://service-science.info/archives/4333 (10) Fagin R, Halpern JY, Moses Y, Vardi M (2004) Reasoning about knowledge. MIT press. https://www.amazon.com/Reasoning-About-Knowledge-Ronald-1995-08-14/dp/B01JXSKYMS/ One of the most cited books in artificial intelligence – a must read.  Reasoning about the …

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(1) For CEOs to understand cognitive How does one win? Tesla Gathers More Autopilot Miles in a Day Than Google Has in Its Whole Program http://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-gathers-more-autopilot-miles-in-a-day-than-google-has-in-its-whole-program-107841.html For CEO’s who want to truly understand cognitive, I recommend reading or listening to the following on next cross country flight… The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the …

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Reading that are service systems related… 1. Badinelli R (2016) Modeling service systems. Service systems and innovations in business and society collection, Editors: Spohrer J, Demirkan H.  Business Expert Press. https://www.amazon.com/Service-System-Modeling-Ralph-Badinelli/dp/1631570234/ “At once staggered by the challenges of modeling service systems, I was inspired by the opportunity they offered.  We are at an exciting stage …

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How do we make better decisions – individually and collectively?  Are these methods evolving over time? I was recently trying to recall a book I had read related to this topic – and my colleague David Ing helped me remember the book I was struggling to recall… Mitroff II, Linstone HA (1995) The unbounded mind: …

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