The Graduate School of Education and the Computer Science Department engaged in a joint research project to advance new approaches to teaching. After conducting automated analyses of what students do from moment to moment as they learn to write computer programs, Stanford University researchers were able to predict — with surprising accuracy — the students’ final grades.
HABITS are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. "Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd," William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. In the ever-changing 21st century, even the word "habit" carries a negative connotation.
"It is the policy and objective of the Congress to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from federally supported research or development" and "to promote collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations, including universities."
I'M of two minds. As a matter of fact, so are you. And until recently, corporate America wasn't doing much to take advantage of one of them. But now that we're hip-deep in what has been called both the "Creative Economy" and the "Conceptual Age," no one can afford to ignore the artist within: the right hemisphere of the brain.
WHY do some people reach their creative potential in business while other equally talented peers don't? After three decades of painstaking research, the Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck believes that the answer to the puzzle lies in how people think about intelligence and talent.
MANAGERS striving to foster creativity often use the time-worn phrase "thinking outside the box" to encourage workers to come up with something nobody else in the room is thinking. But the improvisational actress Patricia Ryan Madson has a better idea: Look inside the box and take a fresh look at what's already there.
WHEN Thomas Alva Edison was starting in business, his first patent was for an automated vote-tallying machine to let legislators know instantly which measures had passed and which had been voted down. He sold not a one. It seems that legislators, accustomed to schmoozing and politicking right through a vote's tally, didn't want to speed the process.
BACK in the waning days of the 20th century, little start-up companies couldn't wait to get big. Growth was their entree to the upper echelon, to millions in venture capital and tens of millions more in an initial public offering of stock.
THE word "design" tends to conjure up images of crisp graphics, nicely arranged interiors or pleasing packaging. But a growing cadre of advocates say the world of design has much more to offer corporate America. They are proponents of "design thinking," which focuses on people's actual needs rather than trying to persuade them to buy into what businesses are selling.
Japanese proverb DESPITE the enduring myth of the lone genius, innovation does not take place in isolation. Truly productive invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators themselves don't always realize it. Keith Sawyer, a researcher at Washington University in St.
Ellis Meng didn’t intend to become an entrepreneur – all she really wanted was to get tenure. But natural-born innovators need an outlet. Today Meng, 40, is co-founder of research micro-pump company Fluid Synchrony and is on the verge of creating a second company aimed at treating hydrocephalus, a serious, abnormal buildup of fluid in the brain.
Is fear of sun exposure leaving us with dangerously decreased vitamin D levels? Marcia Houston faced a dilemma. She had put on weight, and her blood pressure was high. But she was adamantly against taking blood pressure medication. "I never wanted to take drugs," says the 53-year-old technical specialist from Twinsburg, Ohio.
Enterprise resource planning systems are being wholly transformed as suppliers integrate artificial intelligence technology into their operations. From taking over routine tasks to predicting when machines are going to fail, AI is using ERP’s wealth of data in previously unimaginable ways. Two decades ago as ERP first emerged into the mainstream, organizations struggled to develop practical uses for the growing flood of structured data the systems created.
There may be no better definition of a Titan of Technology than Jeff Hawkins, 48, creator of the PalmPilot, the Treo smart phone and now an entirely new way of understanding how the human brain works. Hawkins juggles three top-line posts -- chief technology officer of PalmOne, founder of Numenta and founder/director of Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
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Janet Rae-Dupree
I cover innovation as my beat, focusing on emerging technologies, scientific discovery, R&D, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and market transfer. NEW: Travel writing!