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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...
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...
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...
Twitter’s Friends And Enemies
Via Business Insider: Since its earliest days, Twitter has depended on the kindness of strangers. Companies like Yahoo and LinkedIn lent a hand when it was just a fledgling startup, with little to its name but its unrealized potential. But now that it's grown up into...
Water In Our Solar System
Via Business Insider: In searching for worlds we humans might one day try to inhabit, the presence of water is among the most pertinent considerations. So where else should we be looking for water? How can we detect water on planets we can’t get to? And why is the...
Water In Our Solar System
Via Business Insider: In searching for worlds we humans might one day try to inhabit, the presence of water is among the most pertinent considerations. So where else should we be looking for water? How can we detect water on planets we can’t get to? And why is the...