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Bucking Copy-Paste Mentality in the Mass-Production of Knowledge – A Personal View

by Kristinn R. Thórisson,
Directing Manager of IIIM and
Aperio Program Director

The educational system has never been as important as it is now. We have established a robust educational system with subdivisions along students’ age and “level”; but, while the system offers a variety of topics to study, it also has some drawbacks. One of them is the idea that, since it is impossible to teach anything and everything from A to Z in the first 10-15 years of a person’s education, a subset of targeted teaching material and topics must be chosen from a larger set. Continue reading Bucking Copy-Paste Mentality in the Mass-Production of Knowledge – A Personal View →

IIIM News, Video

Video Presentation from IIIM’s and CADIA’s Open Day – Dr. Jacky Mallett

Dr. Jacky Mallett.

At a time of uncertainty in the global economy, it is time to examine accepted economic theories. This is why Dr. Jacky Mallett introduced a very simple simulation of a one product economy with a constant money supply. Working with established equations, Dr. Mallett began questioning theories at the heart of the field. The results of her simulation have revealed that even the simplest economy has complexities that economists do not fully take into account, and that the market can behave in unexpected ways.

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IIIM News

Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson Keynote Speaker at the Workshop on ACCSDS

Creating systems that respond promptly to human cues is a daunting task that requires international and cross-field collaboration. On October 5-6th, IIIM Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson will feature as the keynote speaker of a workshop in Hamburg, Germany. In Dr. Thórisson’s two decades of experience in industry and academia, he has pioneered new ideas in the area of communicative, multimodal intelligent agents and developed a cognitive architecture for the humanoid robot ASIMO.  Continue reading Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson Keynote Speaker at the Workshop on ACCSDS →