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Decision Delusions

by Tom Austin  |  June 11, 2009  |  2 Comments

I am here at the New York Sheraton Towers Hotel, this morning and was just passed by someone in a formal waistcoat and other formal regalia – a veritable Rich Uncle Pennybags without tophat. I’ve been here many times before in my life, from its early days as the Hotel Americana, famous in business school [...]

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AI-rats, self-organizing social systems and the cloud

by Tom Austin  |  June 8, 2009  |  1 Comment

Physorg has a news piece on artificial rats. This might seem whimsical (or the subject for a “Golden Fleece” award unless you apply a lot of converging threads. This piece is about rat-like robots. It brings to mind, Rodney Brooks’ work at MIT on the elegance of simple robots. What this article doesn’t go into [...]

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