Universities are responding to the need for all graduates to have foundational skills for a data-driven, AI-powered, digital economy. These new university programs will create graduates with depth in traditional disciplines, as well as broader boundary spanning skills – resulting in T-shapes. Over time, our data will become our AI helper. Two Skills Reports Two …

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FYI: Annotated Bibliography Item: Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners Wu J, Child R, Luan D, Amodei D, Suskeve I (2018) Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners. URL: https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf Good summary of the above here: https://towardsdatascience.com/one-language-model-to-rule-them-all-26f802c90660 “Abstract. Natural language processing tasks, such as question answering, machine translation, reading comprehension, and summarization, are typically approached with …

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Books for those redesigning education: Kline SJ (1995) Conceptual foundations for multidisciplinary thinking. Stanford University Press. URL https://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Foundations-Multidisciplinary-Thinking-Stephen/dp/0804724091/ Dartnell L. The knowledge: How to rebuild our world from scratch. Random House. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-How-Rebuild-World-Scratch/dp/159420523X/r Open Source Ecology: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Book#Disclaimer Open Source Ecology Introduction: Key Points: This book treats the perennial question of making a better world, and …

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Tom Malone’s perspective in “Superminds” seems most well thought out to me – it is a very service science oriented perspective, since organizations were the first superminds. See: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-human-computer-superminds-are-redefining-the-future-of-work Malone TW (2018) How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ Are Redefining the Future of Work. MIT Sloan Management Review. 2018 Jul 1;59(4):34-41. A few thoughts…. (1) For some reason, …

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Delighted by a visit from a dozen energetic members of YPO yesterday at IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab briefing center. YPO is the “the premier leadership organization of chief executives in the world” – and I must say they are one of the most inquisitive groups that I have ever presented to: https://www.ypo.org/about-ypo/ – my summary …

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FYI: Building machines that learn and think like people Lake BM, Ullman TD, Tenenbaum JB, Gershman SJ (2017) Building machines that learn and think like people. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40:1-70. URL: https://cims.nyu.edu/~brenden/LakeEtAl2017BBS.pdf “The difference between pattern recognition and model building, between prediction and explanation, is central to our view of human intelligence. Just as …

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The following are outlines of talks at HICSS-52 workshops – the presentation is uploaded to Slideshare here: https://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/hicss52-20190108-v2 AI & Jobs/Skills: Four main talking points •The Mega-Trend:Open source AI is a mega-trend, e.g., https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/2018/12/12/open-source-ibm-and-ai/ •Can everyone become an entrepreneur?Three laws of Robo-Economics – Freeman RB (2018) Ownership when AI robots do more of the work …

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Here is my thought experiment, and I welcome your criticism of it: The gist of my argument is that (from a service science perspective) there are named resources in the world that people communicate about (with words), and they fall into four categories based on two dichotomies (also words/phrases): Of course, physicists and lawyers argue …

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Dr. Florin G. Filip recently sent two presentations to me. The two presentations are regarding decision support systems (Florin 2018a, 2018b). This short blog posts provides my summary of the presentations, but for more information about computer-supported collaborative decision-making see the Springer book (Filip, Zamfirescu, Ciurea 2017). Both presentations that were shared with me by …

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Wishing everyone a relaxing/festive holiday season and productive/inspiring new year 2019. Please join us at HICSS 52 (Maui), Naples Forum (Ischia), Frontiers (Singapore), AHFE HSSE 2020 (San Diego) – where ISSIP sponsors best paper awards to advance our members professional development. Also, please submit on behalf of your organization a proposal for ISSIP’s Annual Excellence …

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