Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

But as it turned out, the zeppelin company had gone out of business – I imagine that many people, like myself, could only think about Christopher Walken and Grace Jones’ characters and opted not to go. In the meantime, these companies continue to collect a lot of “driving” data. Google versus Uber.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The Pew survey shows dramatic downward shifts in Republicans’ opinions on higher ed just since 2015.)

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