Thursday, July 05, 2018

Stanford CSP, BUS 152 - Innovation Timing. Session 2, Quiz 1

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In a recent article , MIT Technology Review described exciting new developments in AI-enabled robotics: This robot, controlled by softwar...
Monday, October 02, 2017

The science of biological timing

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Today, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the 2017 Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three American scientists - Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael R...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Invention of the Day: Hypodermic Syringe

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I'm reading a wonderful book by Roger Bridman - 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries . It documents an incredible range of human ingenuity f...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Psychology of Creativity: Art, Science and Technology

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Until the middle of the 20th century, creativity was generally considered as a psychological attribute of an artist and, sometimes, of a sci...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Apple needs a new product

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Steve Jobs used iPod's success to launch the iPhone. If Apple doesn't create a breakthrough product within the next two years, the c...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Lunch Talk: Artificial Intelligence 65 years ago

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Claude Shannon demonstrate an electro-mechanical mouse that navigates a labyrinth, computes and remembers the optimal path. (Bell Labs, 19...
Friday, September 08, 2017

Stanford CSP BUS 152, Innovation Timing, Session 2 Quiz 1

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Background In a 2017 Hype Cycle-related article , Gartner, an American Research and Advisory firm, put Deep Learning and Machine Learning ...
Thursday, September 07, 2017

Lunch Talk: Quantum Computing

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a discussion of why now is the right time to be thinking about this new technology and some of the recent developments that have been m...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Stanford CSP BUS 74. Session 3 Quiz 1.

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Background: MIT Technology Review lists face-detecting systems as one of the top 10 innovations for 2017. The technology figures to ta...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Stanford CSP BUS 74, Session 2 Quiz 3

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Questions 1. Watch the video (8min) and identify 2-3 trade-offs The Three Little Pigs make in the story. 2. Does any of the major tech...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Stanford CSP BUS 74, Session 2 Quiz 2

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Background Mood plays an important role in motivating people for a broad range of everyday activities, both useful and harmful. In a recent...

Stanford CSP BUS 74, Session 2 Quiz 1

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Background: Founded in 1943, IKEA grew from a small mail-order shop to a major global manufacturing and retail business. Flat-pack easy-to-...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Stanford CSP BUS 74. Session 1, Quiz 2.

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Background : In today's (June 29, 2017) Science News article , Matthew Hudson describes new carbon nanotube transistors created by IBM...

Stanford CSP BUS 74, Principles of Invention and Innovation. Session 1, Quiz 1

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Background: The Lancet, one of the world's best known medical journals, recently reported that the obesity epidemic has reached a gl...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Services Revolution: Why Social Networks Turned Into an Instituion

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Last month I gave a t alk ( pdf ) on innovation timing at OpenWay Club . The presentation covered, among other topics, the unfolding technol...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Lunch Talk: Jay Kaplan: Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity (at Stanford)

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Entrepreneur Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack, describes how the idea of creating a cybersecurity service for enterprise businesses...
Friday, March 10, 2017

LunchTalk: Alan Burdick: "Why Time Flies" (at Google)

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Alan Burdick is a staff writer and former senior editor at The New Yorker. His most recent book, "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific ...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Creative Solution of the Day: the Publication Dilemma

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Typically, inventors face a disclosure dilemma: on the one hand, you want to explain your idea to a potential investor or a customer; on the...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Lunchtalk: TED - Why humans run the world

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A TED talk by Yuval Harari, the author of The Sapiens. From the talk description: Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Stanford CSP, BUS 152 - Session 5, Quiz 1

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Background : A major shift in business and technology strategy (aka pivot) seems to be inevitable during the life time of both startups and ...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Stanford CSP, BUS 152 - Innovation Timing. Session 4, Quiz 1

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Background: Recently, a number of technology companies introduced Augmented Reality headsets that enable users to overlay images from the...
Friday, February 03, 2017

Lunch Talk: Superintelligence

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A panel discussion with leading AI experts and business leaders about the challenges and opportunities presented by Superintelligence. Pan...