Duckworth A (2016): GRIT: The power of passion and perseverance. NY,NY: Simon & Schuster, Scribner. https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108 Part I: What grit is and why it matters Chapter 1: Showing up “Some people are great when things are going well, but they fall apart when things aren’t.” p. 7 “… in a very real sense, they were …

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Outline for Interdisciplinary Curriculum (Pre-Syllabus Intelligence Augmentation, or Studying the Evolution of Cognitive Systems for Service Systems) Question: What changes in service systems will progress everyone towards easily building, understanding, and working with cognitive systems in their personal and professional lives?  These changes can have a profound impact on intelligence augmentation of people and organizations. …

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ISSIP Speaker Series: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4720974/4720974-6189199426523848705 From:    Haluk Demirkan <haluk.demirkan@gmail.com> To:    Haluk Demirkan <haluk.demirkan@gmail.com> Cc:    Lasse Mitronen <lasse.mitronen@aalto.fi> Date:    10/04/2016 03:31 PM Subject:    ISSIP Service Innovation Presentation: October 5 – 7:30 am Pacific Time (San Francisco Time Zone) – Presentation of Professor Lasse Mitronen, Aaalto University Dear Friends and Colleagues, Hope you are having a great week. …

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AAAI 2016 Fall Symposium Series November 17-19 (Thursday – Saturday) Symposium: Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications Registration:  https://www.regonline.com/fss16. (Registration ends October 21, 2016)  Frank just sent an updated agenda here: 2016-aaai-fss-cognitive-assistance-in-government-symposium-invitation100416 Attend the Premier Symposium focused on Cognitive Assistance advancements in the Government and Public Sector domain.  Hear subject matter experts discuss …

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This just in from Dick Larson (MIT): The first is Irving Wladawsky-Berger’s  blog post, “STEM Literacy and Jobs,” http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2016/09/stem-literacy-and-jobs.html which eventually (in somewhat shortened form) made it to the WSJ.  http://www.wsj.com/news/cio-journal We at MIT were happy that he cited two our our STEM papers:  “Stem is for Everyone” (http://www.wise-qatar.org/richard-larson-stem-mit-blossoms) and “STEM crisis or STEM surplus? …

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This just in from Ben Shaw (IBM): Recent Press: Samsung, Air Force, Lawrence Livermore Partnership: http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-turns-ibms-brain-like-chip-into-a-digital-eye/ Misha Mahowald Prize: http://mahowaldprize.org/inaugural-misha-mahowald-prize-for-neuromorphic-engineering-won-by-ibm-truenorth-project/ Computer History Museum: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50350.wss 16-Chip System: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/49424.wss Boot Camp: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ibms-rodent-brain-chip-make-phones-hyper-smart/ Papers: ecosystem: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91714474/Papers/030.Supercomputing%202016.pdf convolution networks: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08270 backpropagation: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5862-backpropagation-for-energy-efficient-neuromorphic-computing architecture: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/668.full.pdf neuron model: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.neuron-model.pdf applications: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.algorithms-applications.pdf programming: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.corelet-language.pdf Video: Brain-inspired Computing: Dharmendra Modha, IBM Fellow and …

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Ken Goldberg just sent this excellent piece:   Multiplicity has More Potential Than Singularity Ken Goldberg Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk are extremely intelligent humans.  So it’s not surprising that the concerns they’ve recently raised about Artificial Intelligence (AI) surpassing human intelligence have generated widespread anxiety.  But fears of the “Singularity” are distracting …

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This just in: CFP: Systems Journal Dear Dr. Spohrer, The journal Systems (ISSN 2079-8954) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Service Systems”. Prof. Dr. Francesco Polese, Dr. Luca Carrubbo, and Dr. Orlando Troisi, all of the University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy, are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We think you could …

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This just in from Marialuisa Saviano…   Dear Colleagues, as anticipated during our last email interaction for the paper to be published in JOSM, we are very pleased to announce you the next WOSC Congress that will be held in Rome at Sapienza, 25-27 January 2017, in collaboration between the World Organisation of Systems and …

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Prof. Irene Ng (UK, U Warwick) wrote in Scientific American opinion blog: Google, Facebook and most other big tech companies don’t typically give customers exclusive custodial rights over their data. As threats to their security and reputations mount, however, these companies are starting to change their tune. In the case of Whatsapp, Facebook still retains …

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