The 10th International Conference on Exploring Service Science, IESS 2.0, will be organized by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), on February 05-07, 2020 in Porto, Portugal. The conference will bring together academics, service industry practitioners and their worldwide partners in a collegial and stimulating environment. According to its tradition, IESS …

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IAMOT 2020 Cairo, Egypt April 5-9. Call for Abstracts – Deadline Oct 15, 2019. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iamot2020 The 29th International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT) invites academicians, policy makers, technology experts and business leaders concerned about the impact of technology on our life, organizations and people to share their knowledge and expertise on how to leverage …

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In the future, as is true today, there are number of types of jobs and work. Enterprise worker: Working for an enterprise that pays you – this can be like working for IBM, the US government, MIT, the Red Cross, or other organizations. O*NET lists the roughly 1000 types of occupations in these organizations, and …

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An IBM colleague recently sent me a pointer to an interesting article about how scientists and researchers are increasingly using familiar tools like Mathematica to get the benefits of AI/ML/DL with no coding required (Hutson 2019). At IBM CODAIT (Center for Opensource Data and AI Technologies) making AI/ML/DL more accessible to data scientists and AI …

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HCIS 2020: 14th International Conference on Human-Centered Intelligent Systems June 17-19, 2020 | Split, Croatia Register here: http://hcis-20.kesinternational.org Part of KES Smart Digital Futures (SDF 2020) http://sdf-20.kesinternational.org Aim Contemporary advances in the field of artificial intelligence have led to a rapidly growing number of intelligent services and applications. Artificial intelligence is often characterized in an …

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AAAI Fall Symposium Series AI in Government and Public Sector Fall Symposium Preliminary Call for Participation (Deadline July 26) Conference November 7-9, 2019, Washington DC The democratization of AI has begun. AI is no longer reserved for a few highly specialized enterprises. As free, easy-to-deploy AI models proliferate, we see that simple, localized, but nonetheless …

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Berkeley School of Engineering, June 20th, 2019 Remembering Jean Paul Jacob – the invisible hand guiding Brazil, IBM, and Berkeley into the future. Jean-Paul would surely have us smiling and laughing in spite of this solemn occasion today. Thank-you so much Berkeley friends. Jean Paul was a master communicator, like Carl Sagan in my mind. …

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Journal of Service Research https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jsr Editor-in_Chief Michael K. Brady, Florida State University, USA INFORMS Journal of Service Science https://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/serv Editor-in-Chief Saif Benjaafar, University of Minnesota, USA Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-systems-service-oriented/1155 Editor-in-Chief: Dickson K.W. Chiu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) [Additional Contact Katelyn Hoover khoover@igi-global.com] Originally posted by Jim Spohrer …

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Join the live stream here. Presentation on Future of AI here. Perspective 1: David Cox (IBM-MIT Partnership) – Narrow AI, Broad AI, General AI, and Perspective 2: Jim Spohrer (IBM) – Better Building Blocks Highlights include keynotes from European Commission, Business Finland, VTT projects, and IBM on AI & Ethics, Future of AI. Please consider …

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Motivation: People from around the world email me every week, asking about “service/systems/innovation degrees and certifications.” Their questions range from (1) where to get a PhD/Masters/Bachelors as a fulltime student, to (2) same, but as a remote, working professional, part-time students, to (3) short-term, certification or certificate of completion for one week workshop, attending a …

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