Archive for June, 2006

Presentations on Artificial General Intelligence available

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6/29/2006

From KurzweilAI.net: Abstracts and PowerPoints are now available online for the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute’s (AGIRI) first workshop, May 20-21. The workshop looked at breaking AI technologies out of specific, task-oriented functions into a more general form. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development takes a transdisciplinary, systems-oriented design perspective with the ultimate goal of creating [...]


Videogames in the classroom

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6/21/2006

Cathy Zemke forwarded this along from Brock Dubbels on a CEHD mailing list: In a recent story on WCCO, Jason DeRusha reported on curriculum that Brock Dubbels, a graduate student in Curriculum and Instruction, created for his classroom at Northeast Middle School in Minneapolis using video games to meet state standards in reading and literature. [...]


Inside Higher Ed: Time for US to wake up

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6/12/2006

Inside Higher Ed has an article on the decrease of political and financial support for American education relative to global competitors. Citing research by John A. Douglass at UC Berkeley, the article states: Douglass says that other nations are using government policy to match or exceed U.S. participation rates and to more fully integrate higher [...]


Aim higher!

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6/2/2006

The Minnesota Daily published an article on the “Leapfrog University” memo distributed by Arthur Harkins and myself.  Marni Ginther writes: Harkins and Moravec argue research and innovation must begin soon and must begin at the undergraduate level. This would involve a huge shift in the way the University – and universities across the country – [...]


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The Memo v4.0: Building a “Leapfrog” University

Date: May 17, 2006 To: All Participants From: Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 4.0) “A Noble Quest” (as suggested by Robert Giampietro, retired VP, Target Corp.) A new paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, the rise of knowledge societies, and accelerating change is emerging. This [...]


“Leapfrog” University comments thread

Use this space to post your comments regarding the Building a “Leapfrog” University series.


The Memo v3.0: Building a “Leapfrog” University

Date:      04 April 2006 To:          All Participants From:     Arthur Harkins and John Moravec Subject: Building a “Leapfrog” University: Renovating Undergraduate Education (Version 3.0) Preface to Version 3.0 A New Paradigm founded on the convergence of globalization, rise of the knowledge society and accelerating change is emerging. The first country to adopt the New Paradigm, bolster it [...]


Press Release: Supporting the University of Minnesota’s Strategic Vision

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Minneapolis, February 20, 2006) – Arthur Harkins and John Moravec today released action steps they believe the University of Minnesota should take to become one of the world’s top three public research universities within the coming decade. Their effort is independent of the University’s official strategic repositioning process.  It is intended to [...]


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