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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This just in from Christoph Breidbach:   Jim, I very much enjoy reading through service-science.info and was hoping that you could include a CfP on the page. My colleagues Daviel Beverungen, Jens Poeppelbuss, Virpi Tuunainen and I are editing a Special Issue on ‘Smart Service Systems: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’ for the Information Systems Journal. The …

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Currently, I am working on a new “science of cognitive computing” curriculum for IBM with our partner universities and others to allow people of all ages to design, build, understand, and work with cognitive mediators.  The curriculum is inspired in part by the work of Douglas Engelbart, an American engineer and inventor, and an early …

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A colleague of mine, whom I have great respect for, just sent a fascinating email to a group of global computer science researchers as well as social science and policy making scholars.  He wrote in part:   Building robust cognitive systems requires moving beyond task-specific systems, to cognitive architectures where the same system (1) handles …

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