Presented at the JTET conference this morning:

Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA)
John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA)
University of Minnesota
Abstract
This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation to cope with changes [...]

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has launched a blog covering research and outreach updates, videos, articles, papers, events, goals, and relevant science and technology news.
SIAI is a not-for-profit research institute in Palo Alto, California, with three major goals: furthering the nascent science of safe, beneficial advanced artificial intelligence (self-improving systems) through research and [...]

Posts will be sparse over the next couple weeks as I’ll be busy: revisiting Budapest, spelunking about Moravian wine cellars, investigating the towns and castles of Slovakia… oh, and presenting at next week’s JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary…!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes for Forbes that:
Things, it turns out, are all too often discovered by accident–but we don’t see that when we look at history in our rear-view mirrors. The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those who [...]

Ei, chihuahua…
University of Minnesota-Morris professor PZ Myers writes on the follies of a Christian science fair. The winner? “Creation Wins!!!” The losers? Ignorant parents, teachers and judges…

The folks at the Technology Evangelist blog did a remarkable job in recording Ray Kurzweil’s talk at the Killer App Expo and feeding video to the net. Benjamin J. Higginbotham writes:
Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App [...]

Brock Dubbels is looking for more people that belong to (or that can soon join) the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – for a Special Interest Group (SIG) especially for 3D Virtual Worlds, such as Second Life.
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=ARVEL
The Applied Research for Virtual Environments for Learning (ARVEL) special interest group at AERA, “is a community of educators, [...]

(Cross posted from FLACSO-UMN Knowledge Seminar blog…)

More on the knowledge seminar…

An oh-so-painful lesson from Eric Faden at Bucknell University on the principles of copyright…

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For those of us in Minneapolis/St. Paul, this looks good:
eLearning Games and Simulations workshop

May 24: 8:30 – 4:00
Normandale Community College

Learn what your students already know
Games and simulations are powerful tools – changing the way we learn
Hands-on Instruction Enables You to Play the Games Yourself
Seated at your own computer, with an instructor as your guide, [...]