technology-with-sense: April 2011

Recently i was invited to CELSTEC to make a talk about my ongoing research. I appreciated this opportunity and get some valuable feedback. Some people (Rory Sie and Howard Spoelstra) are working under team formation questions in CELSTEC as well.

Evaluation of recommender technology using multi agent simulation

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Phrases

NYTimes : "serendipity is the spontaneous plugging of these (structural) holes, over which good ideas flow"

Picasso : "I begin with idea, and then it becomes something else", "It takes a long time to become young"

Edison : "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"

Wenger, 1998: "... practice must be understood as a learning process and that a community of practice is therefore an emergent structure, neither inherently stable nor randomly changeable. "

Hofstede, 1991: "Not only organizations are culture bound; theories about organizations are equally culture bound. "

Levitt, 1983: "things are driven by what happens at the margin, not at the core”

Jello Biafra: "Don't fight the media, become the media."

Mark Prensky, 2001: Our students have changed radically. Today's studnets are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

Thomas Kempis: The object of education isn’t knowledge; it’s action.

Thomas Henry Huxley’s quote: “The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action.”

"Creativity thrives under constraints" - from Techcrunchit post

"The medium is the message" - Marschall McLuhan

"To know game theory is to change your lifetime way of thinking" - Paul Samuelson

“Intelligence is deeply and inevitably coupled with
interaction.” – Gerhard Weiss

"the central fact about our psyhology is the fact of mediation" - Vygotsky

"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research" - Einstein

"The meaning of resource is use of the community" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality, out-perform groups of like-minded experts." - The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, Scott E. Page.

no social media platform provides an option for users to “quit” from http://innovationinsight.com/blog/2008/signal-to-noise-strategies-for-twitter/

Monday, April 4, 2011

Evaluation of recommender technology using multi agent simulation