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Bucking Copy-Paste Mentality in the Mass-Production of Knowledge – A Personal View

by Kristinn R. Thórisson,
Directing Manager of IIIM and
Aperio Program Director

The educational system has never been as important as it is now. We have established a robust educational system with subdivisions along students’ age and “level”; but, while the system offers a variety of topics to study, it also has some drawbacks. One of them is the idea that, since it is impossible to teach anything and everything from A to Z in the first 10-15 years of a person’s education, a subset of targeted teaching material and topics must be chosen from a larger set. Continue reading Bucking Copy-Paste Mentality in the Mass-Production of Knowledge – A Personal View

Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson Keynote Speaker at the Workshop on ACCSDS

Creating systems that respond promptly to human cues is a daunting task that requires international and cross-field collaboration. On October 5-6th, IIIM Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson will feature as the keynote speaker of a workshop in Hamburg, Germany. In Dr. Thórisson’s two decades of experience in industry and academia, he has pioneered new ideas in the area of communicative, multimodal intelligent agents and developed a cognitive architecture for the humanoid robot ASIMO.  Continue reading Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson Keynote Speaker at the Workshop on ACCSDS

Meet Us at Vísindavaka (Researchers’ Night) on Friday September 28th!

Do you want to meet the people behind the presentations and papers? Then join the IIIM at the annual Visindavaka Festival (Researchers’ Night) on Friday, September 28th. Come and visit us in Háskólabíó to learn more about our work and projects, or ask questions about the field and its opportunities.

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