Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector The democratization of AI has begun. AI is no longer reserved for a few highly specialized enterprises. As easy-to-configure AI methods proliferate, we see that simple, localized, but nonetheless very useful AI applications are beginning to pervade society. Government and the public sector are not immune from this …

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Dear colleagues We invite you to submit the paper to “Analytics and AI for industry-specific applications” minitrack http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/decision-analytics-mobile-services-and-service-science/#analytics-and-ai-for-industry-specific-applications-minitrack HICSS conference http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ will be held on January 8-11 at Maui island, Hawaii. The deadline for submitting papers is June 15 The purpose of this minitrack is to invite case studies of applications of data analytics and …

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Bringing hundreds of people together every year to discuss the T-Shaped Professionals was done at by IBM and Michigan State University (MSU) in 2014, 2015, and 2016. T Summit 2014 (IBM Research Almaden, San Jose, CA) T Summit 2015 (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI) T Summit 2016 (National Academies, Washington DC) Since 2017, The …

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(Presented at JAIST World Conference) Preparing for Our Future with Open Artificial Intelligence (#OpenTechAI): A Service Science Perspective Keywords: service science, service-dominant logic, knowledge science, computer science, artificial intelligence, open source, open technologies, open innovation, scientific repeatability This talk will present a service science perspective on how best to prepare for our future with open …

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6 Rs of learning Knowledge was in you 1. remember – index better in a dynamic memory 2. rehearse – practice Knowledge was in someone else 3. receive – ability to understand answers to answered questions 4. reconstruct – ability to re-answer answered questions in new ways Knowledge not previously in anyone 5. research – …

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Since I started leading IBM’s open source AI efforts, I am frequently asked how best to prepare for our future with AI.  While I have a long presentation here, I decided to try to distill it to one slide:   Recently, one member of the audience signed up for Github, during the talk!!!  Got to …

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I will visit Finland in March, and wanted to give you a heads up about an upcoming Opentech AI Workshop related to industry-specific AI applications and therefore, smarter/wiser service systems. We are asking a few close colleagues to register if they have an interest (we will have about 100 participants): What: Free Opentech AI Workshop …

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Register for Free AI Open Community Gathering Featuring TensorFlow On Feb 20, 9am-1pm, leaders from enterprise AI companies and open source code foundations will meet in San Francisco to deepen collaboration efforts around TensorFlow/Keras for building and sharing open code, data, models, and measuring progress on AI challenge leaderboards. When: Feb 20, 9am-1pm (try to …

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Just returning from HICSS conference, where one of the keynotes was on augmented intelligence….  got me thinking about augmented intelligence for individuals, businesses, and families – three important types of service system entities. To see where I am coming from, this Politico article is a worthwhile careful read: The Real Future of Work https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/future-work-independent-contractors-alternative-work-arrangements-216212 …these …

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…will be great if you can attend the AI Workshop in Helsinki March 14th: https://opentechai.blog/2017/12/29/opentech-ai-workshop/ Also, keep me posted if you see any AI Challenge Leaderboards related to education: China Medical Entrance Exam AI Challenge: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-so-so-grade-chinese-university.html Japan Tokyo U Entrance Exam AI Challenge: http://www.businessinsider.com/robot-beat-most-students-on-university-tokyo-entrance-exam-2017-9 Delighted if you can help me find more, better AI Challenge …

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