Category: Nokia
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Social Artificial Intelligence: Objective vs. Subjective Reality (and Representation)
Timo Honkela, Chief Scientist of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology, and head of the Computational Cognitive Systems group there, visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, today, and presented a talk on Social Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Devices. Timo stressed the importance of viewing intelligence in a social context (vs.…
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Spiritual Computing: Toward Meaningful, perhaps Transcendental, User Experiences
Craig Warren Smith visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, on Thursday to present and discuss some ideas relating to Spiritual Computing. As Craig describes it: Spiritual Computing (Spiricomp) elicits the potential of digital networks for fostering the spiritual growth among individuals and communities. … The investigative method of Spiricomp is unusual. Made possible by HH…
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Nokia Research Center’s 20th Anniversary: Cultivating Freedom, Accountability and Risk
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of Nokia Research Center. I happened to be in Helsinki to attend a strategy workshop on Thursday, and arriving a day early enabled me to attend the festivities at the main office of NRC. Antti-Jussi Suominen was the master of ceremonies in an event that featured…
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John Shen: New Head of Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto
John Shen, former DIrector of the Micro-architecture Lab at Intel, became the new head of Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, on Friday. John comes to NRCPA after 6.5 years at Intel, and 18 years before that as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In his welcome welcoming remarks, John stressed his intention to cultivate a…
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Poetry, Courage and Change
In my last post, I wrote about Susan Jeffer‘s No-Lose Model for making decisions, the last step of which — after the decision is made — is Don’t protect, correct (commit yourself to any decision you make and give it all you’ve got … but if it doesn’t work out, change it!) On the flight…
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Joining Nokia: Connecting People … and Helping People Relate
On Monday, I embark on a new chapter in my career, as a Principal Scientist at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto [Update: I rather prefer Principle Scientist, the title ascribed to me by Anne Galloway]. I'm excited about the opportunities to contribute to a number of strategic initiatives NRC is exploring, and to help this…