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Complex Systems and the “Rashomon Effect”
3 comments on Complex Systems and the “Rashomon Effect”I recently read a very interesting NY Times column, The Reality of Quantum Weirdness, by UC Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel. In the column, professor Frenkel discusses a very deep and important question: Is there such a thing as a true reality, or “is our belief in a definite, objective, observer-independent reality an illusion?” The article…
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People have long argued about the future impact of technology. But, as AI is now seemingly everywhere, the concerns surrounding its long term impact may well be in a class by themselves. Like no other technology, AI forces us to explore the boundaries between machines and humans. What will life be like in such an…
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A couple of weeks ago I attended MIT’s Second Machine Age Conference, an event inspired by the best-selling book of the same title published earlier this year by MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee. The conference presented some of the leading-edge research that’s ushering the emerging second machine age, and explored its impact on the economy…
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Advances in technology, big data and analytics hold the promise to significantly augment our judgement and expertise and help us make smarter, more effective decisions. But, as we contemplate these exciting innovations, it’s good to take a step back and ask ourselves a few basic questions: How do we make decisions in the first place?…
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From the early days of the industry, supercomputers have been pushing the boundaries of IT, identifying the key barriers to overcome and experimenting with technologies and architectures that are then incorporated into the overall IT market a few years later. While we generally focus on their computational capabilities as measured in FLOPS, – Floating-point Operations…
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Tools have played a central role in human evolution since our ancestors first developed hand axes and similar such stone tools a few million years ago. Ever since, we’ve been co-evolving right alongside the tools we create. “We shape our tools and they in turn shape us,” observed noted author and educator Marshal McLuhan in…
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On October 21 I participate in a Colloquium on the Frontiers of IT at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center. The colloquium, – which was part of IBM’s Centennial celebration, – brought together experts across industry and academia to discuss and debate the direction of four key Grand Challenges at the very leading edge of…
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The IBM Personal Computer was announced on August 12, 1981. Having sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005, IBM itself did not mark the occasion, and as far as I know, neither did Lenovo or the other companies still selling IBM PC’s. But, the 30th anniversary of this important event in the history of computing was…
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Tools have played a critical role in human evolution for a very, very long time. As the Tools entry in Wikipedia observes: “Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain; by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that human bodies could…
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A recent OpEd in the New York Times caught my attention – The First Church of Robotics by Jaron Lanier, a self-described “computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author,” who did pioneering research in Virtual Reality in the 1980s. I have met Lanier, and a few years ago participated in a panel on Virtual Worlds…