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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Will robots do to jobs what Deep Blue did to Garry Kasparov and Watson to Ken Jennings?
Two items: A driverless truck from Mercedes. Robot construction workers for Google’s headquarters. What are the ramifications for jobs in these sectors? What must people do to adjust?
Help for the long term unemployed
Via Tuscaloosa News, a non-profit helping the long term unemployed: Platform to Employment…targets a major scar of the Great Recession: The 2.6 million Americans who have been jobless for over six months. Many of them have long felt ignored by employers who assume...
Made on the Moon: 3D Printing, Lunar-Style
Via Popular Mechanics: …researchers led by Washington State University mechanical engineering professor Amit Bandyopadhyay have shown that future moon explorers might be able to fabricate new parts simply by pouring that regolith into the hopper of a 3D printer. The...
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
Via Bloomberg: Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomesfor individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult...
American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
Via Bloomberg: Generation Y professionals entering the workforce are finding careers that once were gateways to high pay and upwardly mobile lives turning into detours and dead ends. Average incomesfor individuals ages 25 to 34 have fallen 8 percent, double the adult...
Georgia Tech building ‘Decepticons’
Via Fox News: The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor took this crafty squirrel strategy and applied it to robots. His detailed research was published in this month’s IEEE Intelligent Systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Arkin’s robot...
Georgia Tech building ‘Decepticons’
Via Fox News: The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor took this crafty squirrel strategy and applied it to robots. His detailed research was published in this month’s IEEE Intelligent Systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Arkin’s robot...
Andrew Boz Bosworth Facebook Interview
Via Business Insider: When he's not coding new features like News Feed, a once-controversial ticker of updates that's now the core of the social network, he's serving as the hardcore drill sergeant behind the appropriately named Bootcamp, Facebook's program to get new...