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Voices in AI – Episode 52: A Conversation with Rao Kambhampati
About this Episode Sponsored by Dell and Intel, Episode 52 of Voices in AI, features host Byron Reese and Rao Kambhampati discussing…
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Voices in AI – Episode 1: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio
In this episode Byron and Yoshua talk about knowledge, unsupervised learning, how the brain learns, creativity, and machine translation. Guest Yoshua Bengio…
Read MoreDreaming about the future is bad for your career
Carl Sagan once said, Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. I write…
Read MoreStormboard gives me hope for mindmaps
I got a demo today for a new version of a brainstorming tool named Stormboard, and it has given me renewed hope…
Read MoreAlex Pentland on idea flow, diversity, and contrarians
Alex Pentland is perhaps the one person that I am most likely to agree with regarding social motivations. In a recent Wired…
Read MoreWhat do schools and the typical open office have in common? They are creative deserts.
In general, the organization and decor of offices is managed by considerations of costs, company branding, and interior decorating trends than psychological…
Read MoreYou want more creativity and openness to what’s new? Get messy.
A great deal of the discussion that surrounds the adoption of new technologies in the enterprise — and their impacts on measurable…
Read MoreTurn the light up or down to shift thinking styles
Research by Anna Steidle and Lioba Werth shows that we can change our cognitive performance in very interesting ways. Want to be…
Read MoreDoes music help us work better and more creatively?
Listening to music is correlated with happiness, productivity, and creativity.…
Read MoreCan we design a new form of leadership?
In the new world of business, following must be earned: It can't be bought or owned.…
Read MoreThe cultural bias against creatives as leaders
A 2010 study of 1,500 CEOs by IBM yielded a few large insights. One was that over 60% believed that creativity is…
Read MoreBusiness model innovation may be the most important impact of social business
I attended the IBM Connection conference this week, and it led to a slew of thoughts about the role of social business…
Read MoreCreativity is enhanced by moderate background noise
I was completely unable to coherently string thoughts together at the recent IBM Connect conference. At first I thought that I was…
Read MoreTumblr’s Karp goes into pitchman mode for advertisers
Six months after launching the first ad on Tumblr, the startup's founder and CEO David Karp took the stage during New York's Advertising Week to talk up his platform's approach to marketing.…
Read MoreCoffee shop buzz is good for creativity, study finds
One futurist claims that we'll trade our offices, universities and stores for coffee shops in the future, but won't all this time in buzzing spaces disrupt the thinkers among us who chase eureka moments in quiet solitude? Not according to a new study.…
Read MoreWhy I’m fighting SOPA: We need a solution, but a better solution
SOPA is too extreme to be a practical solution, according to Tom Gimbel of Austin City Limits, but he believes we need a policy that encourages online creativity and economic growth while also protecting intellectual property. It's not as exciting to advocate for a compromise, but that's what's needed.…
Read MoreBars beat boardrooms for generating business ideas, survey claims
A British company surveys workers and finds not only are they more productive when working remotely, but they also feel less creative at the office. Where do they get their most innovative ideas? At the pub (assumedly with a limited quantity of libations).…
Read MoreWhat do Star Wars, Led Zeppelin and blogging have in common?
Brainchild of New York–based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, the Everything is a Remix web series builds on the premise that original ideas and thoughts are extremely hard. And because of those reasons, some of the greatest creations are derivative works or remixes of original thoughts.…
Read MoreForget 4G and GPS; future phones could have airbags!
I'm not sure if Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been sniffing too much eInk from Kindles, but he has a patent for smartphones with airbags and springs. Ridiculous! Anyone who has dropped buttered toast knows a falling smartphone with airbags will land on the non-protected side.…
Read MoreDoes using social media interfere with creativity?
Using social-media tools has become almost a necessity for musicians and artists of all kinds, as a way of promoting their work and connecting with fans. But can doing all this get in the way of the creativity that makes them artists in the first place?…
Read MoreCuration and creation: social media’s dynamic duo
In the desire to be perceived as thought leaders, many businesses are focusing on a curatorial approach to their social media presences. But if you work in a creative team, an approach to social media that leverages your creativity can deliver benefits far beyond brand-customer engagement.…
Read MoreIs workaholism killing your creativity?
Recently we asked if web workers are particularly susceptible to workaholism. Opinions certainly differ on the question, but what if the hypothesis is true and, as some experts fear, there’s an epidemic of work addiction in the web worker community?…
Read MoreHas Remote Work Killed Collaborative Creativity?
Gone are the days when creative work was always done by teams operating from the same location. Yet there's a a great deal of creative collaboration that still relies on our being able to "workshop" concepts together. What does remote work mean for creative collaboration?…
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