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and have the results analyzed by the various stakeholders—trather like elected legislatures were originally intended to do. If we have the data that go into and out of each decision, we can easily ask, Is this a fair algorithm? Is this AI doing things that we as humans believe a...

…the spread of computation machines themselves in a slow migration from proprietary military equipment, through the multinational corporation, to the academic lab, where access began to be granted to artists. The availability of cybernetic components—“sensor organs” (electronic ey...

some planning capacities. AlphaZero has another interesting feature: It works by playing hundreds of millions of games against itself. As it does so, it prunes mistakes that led to losses, and it repeats and elaborates on strategies that led to wins. Such systems, and others invo...

The Status of the Body Politic and the Status of the Body Itself In the long history of conversations between science and religion, starting points matter. As Don Browning demonstrates through the example of Thomas Aquinas, when religions start with a desire to understand human...

…ld really like to do something (important) together. Just arrived in Beijing for the “The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation” (commentating), the second most important event of 2017 in China (after the upcoming Party Congress), but Western media not paying much a...

key to understanding when people may be likely to invoke natural versus supernatural explanations, when gadgets can seem to have minds of their own, and when people are likely to treat their pets as people and their enemies as animals. A mind like our own, with the capacity to se...

that comes afterwards, as the crops absorb water and grow. The idea of a balance of yin and yang is among the oldest in Chinese philosophy. “When heaven and earth were formed, they divided into yin and yang,” the Huainanzi, one of China’s greatest political texts explains. “Yang...

“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science,...

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…d Programs in Professional Education (PPE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will produce courses for national and international distribution to K­12 teachers. Drawing on Elisa New’s extensive archive of raw instructional video, HGSE has the goal of providing on...

…ab MR. OLA ROSLING Chairman, Director & Co-founder, Gapminder Foundation MR. ANDERS LONNBERG The Swedish Government's National Life Science Coordinator DR, LAURENT LEKSELL Chairman, Elekta DR. ANGELA ROSSETTI Executive Vice President, Cell Machines MR. RODNEY SCHWARTZ Founde...

…rt by the John Templeton Foundation, Grant RFP-12- 11 from the Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Fund, the National Science Foundation Grant No. 0905645, and the Army Research Office Grant No. W911NF-11- 1-0363. We thank Keri Hu for helpful research assistance. Any o...

…of risks of trade disruptions and war? Has anyone from the rational center or left given thought to how to respond to a national emergency to cope with a kakistocratic seizure of emergency powers? The Patriot Act was on a ‘shelf’ as you know, ready to be used. What should the bet...

…ence and Engineering President Anchor, CNNMoney.com Managing Partner World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) CNN International The Indian Express Newspapers Ltd Mahindra Satyam Booz & Company University of Pennsylvania ETH Zurich...

…hnology R&D Spending as % of GDP QV 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 KI Source: National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators, 2008. www.kpcb.com USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 371 For GDP Growth & Jo...