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Friday, July 17, 2015

Collaborative Thinking with Computers

All use of computing is collaborative. With the computer.   It is advisory, learning, question and answer, rule following, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive.  It is fitting  all of  those elements together at the right level ofcorrectness and value that will turn out to be our most difficult task.  Note the mention of crowd sourcing to make all this possible.

From Insight Kellogg, work underway on the challenge, inspired by Watson:
" ... Uzzi and Ferrucci recently discussed the human-machine partnerships at the heart of machine learning and computational social science, as part of the Kellogg School’s first Computational Social Science Summit. Ferrucci is now with the investment management firm Bridgewater Associates. Uzzi is the director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems and faculty director for the Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.... "

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