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Expertise: Accelerators; Action learning; Alternative energy; Angel investing; Apple; Apple; Apps; B-school; Blogs; Business education; Business education; Business plans; Business process modeling; Business school; Business-to-business marketing; Canada; Change management; Clean energy; Compensation; Compensation; Competition; Competition; Competitive strategy; Computer industry; Computers; Conflicts of interest; Conflicts of interest; Consumer behavior; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate incentives; Corporate strategy and policy; Crisis management; Crowdfunding; Crowdfunding; Crowdsourcing; Crowdsourcing; Cultural differences; Customer incentives; Customer satisfaction; Disclosure; Distributed leadership; Diversity; Economic development; Education; Electronic media; Elevator pitch; Emerging businesses; Employee motivation; Employee termination; Energy; Energy efficiency; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship; Environment; Environmental leadership; Environmental policy; Ethanol; European Union (EU); Executive education; Experimental design; Fracking; Gas; Global climate change; Global entrepreneurship; Global entrepreneurship; Global warming; Google; Hiring; Hybrid organizations; Hydraulic fracturing; Incentives; Incubators; Initial Public Offerings (IPOs); Innovation; Innovation management; Innovative thinking; Intellectual property; Intellectual property; International entrepreneurship; International marketing; Investor relations; Job creation; Lead users; Leadership; Leadership; Leadership; LinkedIn; Management control; Management education; Managerial communication; Managing adversity; Managing diversity; Market research; Marketing; Marketing strategy; MBA; Medical devices; Mergers and acquisitions; Microsoft; Middle East; MOOCs; MOOCs; Motivation; Motivation; Natural gas; New venture development; New ventures; New Zealand; Non-linear dynamics; Nonlinear dynamics; Nuclear power; Oil; Online education; Open innovation; Organizational behavior; Organizational change; Organizational communication; Organizational communications; Organizational culture; Organizational design and performance; Organizational learning; Organizations; Patents; Positioning; Pricing; Product design; Product development; Product innovation; Product loyalty; Product management; Product strategy; Public utilities; Recruitment; Research and development; Robotics; Sales; Silicon Valley; Silicon Valley; Social entrepreneurship; Solar power; Startups / Start-ups; Stock options; Stock options; Strategic management; Strategic planning; Strategy; Sustainability; System dynamics; System dynamics; Technological innovation; Technological innovation; Technology; Technology transfer; Twitter; United Kingdom; United States; Valuation; Valuation; Venture capital; Water; Wind power
Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in Information Technology and Management
Department: Associate Professor, Applied Economics
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Expertise: Applied economics; Big data; Central banks; Data analysis; Data analytics; Data management; Data mining; Deflation; Developing countries; Developing countries, economics; Economic crisis; Emerging markets; Exchange rates; Federal Reserve; Global economics; Inflation; International economics; Macroeconomics; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Online shopping; Pricing; Pricing; Statistics
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
Department: Professor, Global Economics and Management
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Expertise: Applied economics; Austerity; Contagion; Currency; Economic crisis; Economics; Emerging markets; Federal Reserve; Global economics; Inflation; Interest rates; International economics; International finance; Macroeconomics; Monetary policy; United Kingdom; United States
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics
Department: Professor, Applied Economics
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Expertise: Alliances; Apple; Apple; Applied economics; Applied microeconomics; Bank capital; Banking; Business school; Capital market; Capital markets; Central banks; CEO compensation; CEO compensation; Compensation; Compensation; Competition; Competitive strategy; Contagion; Contracting; Corporate diversification; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate governance; Corporate incentives; Debt; Debt ceiling; Debt contracts; Decision analysis; Deflation; Earnings manipulations; Economics; Economy; Education; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurship; Equities; Euro; European Union (EU); Eurozone; Executive compensation; Executive compensation; Executive pay; Family business; Federal Reserve; Finance; Financial markets; Financial regulation; Financial reporting; Future of work; Game theory; Global economics; Globalization; Great Recession; High technology / Hi-tech; Incentives; Incubators; Information technology; Innovation; Investment analysis; Leadership; Liquidity; Managerial economics; Managerial economics; Managerial vision; Microeconomics; Microeconomics; Monetary policy; Motivation; Motivation; Organizational design and performance; Organizational studies; Organizations; Outsourcing; Performance measurement systems; Scandinavia; Securitization; Signaling; Smartphones; Stock market; Stock options; Strategy; Technological innovation; United States; Venture capital; Venture capital; Wireless communication
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Professor, Global Economics and Management
Contact: 617-290-9618, email@example.com
Expertise: Corporate governance; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Government; New stock markets; Political economy; Sustainability; Tax policy; Trade policy; Unemployment; United States; Venture capital
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Department: Professor, Finance
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Expertise: Analyst forecasts; Angel investing; Applied economics; Applied mathematics; Applied probability; Arbitrage pricing theory; Artificial intelligence; Asset management; Asset pricing; Banking; Banking management; Banking operations and policy; Banking regulation; Bankruptcy; Bayesian networks; Bayesian statistics; Bayesian statistics; Big data; Biopharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Bond markets; Bond negotiations; Bond pricing; Business intelligence; Business plans; Cancer; Capital budgeting; Capital controls; Capital market; CEO compensation; Clinical trials; Consumer behavior; Contagion; Corporate diversification; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Corporate strategy and policy; Currency; Cyber security; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Data mining; Decision making; Deflation; Derivatives; Disaster recovery; Distance learning; Dividend policy; Dot-com; Drug models; eCommerce; Econometrics; Economic crisis; Economics; Education; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Equities; Euro; Exchange rates; Executive compensation; Federal Reserve; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Financial information technology; Financial information technology; Financial markets; Financial reporting; Financial services; Financial statement analysis; Foreign investment; Futures; Government; Healthcare; Healthcare industry; Hedge funds; Hurdle rates; Inflation; Intellectual property; Intellectual property law; Interest rates; International finance; Internet privacy issues; Intertemporal choice; Investment analysis; Investment banking; Investment risk; Investment strategies; Knowledge sharing; Macroeconomics; Mathematical programming; MBA; Medical decision making; Medicine; Mergers and acquisitions; Mobile banking; MOOCs; Mortgage funds; Mutual funds; Neural networks; New venture development; New ventures; Non-linear dynamics; Online banking; Online education; Online feedback mechanisms; Operations research; Optimal control; Optimization; Options; Patents; Pensions; Personal finance; Pharmaceuticals; Portfolio choice; Portfolio design and management; Private equity; Research and development; Retirement planning; Revenue management; Risk capital; Risk management; Sampling; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Security prices; Simulation; Software agents; Startups / Start-ups; Statistics; Stochastic modeling; Stock exchange; Stock exchange consolidation; Stock market; Stock options; Stock trading; Subprime lending; Trading decisions; Treasuries; Venture capital; Wall Street; Web-based marketing
Department: Professor of the Practice, Global Economics and Management
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Expertise: Bank capital; Bank regulation; Banking; Banking industry; Banking management; Banking operations and policy; Banking regulation; Bond markets; Central banks; Currency; Currency; Currency management; Debt; Deflation; Depression; Equities; Euro; Europe; European Union (EU); Eurozone; Exchange rates; Federal Reserve; Fiscal austerity; Fiscal policies; Global economics; Great Recession; Inflation; Interest rates; International economics; Macroeconomics; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Political economy; Recession; Regulatory bodies; Stock market; Treasuries; United States
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Department: Professor, Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 258-8374, firstname.lastname@example.com
Expertise: Applied economics; Applied microeconomics; Argentina; Asia Pacific; Austerity; Bank capital; Bank regulation; Banking; Banking industry; Banking regulation; Big data; Bitcoin; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Corporate governance; Currency; Data analysis; Data analytics; Data mining; Debt ceiling; Deflation; Depression; Developing countries; Developing countries, economics; eBusiness; eBusiness; eCommerce; Econometrics; Econometrics; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy; eGovernment; Emerging markets; Euro; Europe; European Union (EU); Eurozone; Exchange rates; Exports; Federal Reserve; Financial econometrics; Financial engineering; Fiscal austerity; Fiscal cliff; Fiscal policies; France; Germany; Global economics; Global entrepreneurship; Globalization; Great Recession; Hong Kong; India; Inflation; Interest rates; International economics; International finance; International finance; International management; International trade; Internationalization; Intertemporal choice; Investment policy; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Job creation; Korea; Latin America; Macroeconomics; Managerial economics; Mexico; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Offshoring; Oil; Online feedback mechanisms; Optimal control; Outsourcing; Political economy; Pricing; Recession; Singapore; Social business; Social media; Social networks; Social Security; South Korea; Southeast Asia; Spain; Statistics; Stimulus; Stochastic modeling; Subsidies; Sustainability; Taiwan; Tax reforms; Technological innovation; Technology transfer; Thailand; Trade policy; Unemployment; United Kingdom; United States
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Ford International Career Development Professor of Accounting
Department: Assistant Professor, Accounting
Contact: (617) 324-3894, firstname.lastname@example.com
Expertise: Accounting standards; Auditing; Bank regulation; Banking; Banking industry; Banking regulation; Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy; Contracting; Corporate diversification; Corporate finance; Debt; Debt contracts; Economic crisis; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship; Financial institutions; Financial regulation; Financial reporting; Financial reporting; Microeconomics; Regulation and policy; Regulatory bodies; Reporting; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
A panel of MIT faculty experts convened Oct. 7 to discuss current economic news. The panelists focused on different aspects of the history, the present unfolding, and the likely future of the financial mess, and emphasized that the situation is far more complex -- and the long-term outcome more uncertain -- than is typically portrayed.
Nov. 18, 2008: In the second in a series of special seminars, Prof. Simon Johnson dives deep into the global economic crisis and answers questions from the MIT Sloan community.
Nov. 4, 2008: In the second in a series of special seminars, Prof. Simon Johnson dives deep into the global economic crisis and answers questions from the MIT Sloan community.
In thirty years, S. D. Shibulal has seen his share of economic crises, three to be exact. But in thinking hard about the role of crises in the future for today's students, he predicts: they will occur more frequently, and will be less predictable, longer lasting and more costly.
It's been predicted that within 16 years, Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta could sink up to 15 feet, leading to catastrophic flooding of the area. This devastating possibility is a direct result of the lack of clean drinking water available from the city's many rivers, which has caused area residents to pump excessive amounts of ground water, leading to massive drops in the land levels. In an effort to mitigate damage and prevent disaster, work is being done to clean up Jakarta's water supply and restore the habitat. A Sustainability Lab team from MIT Sloan was among those who traveled to Jakarta to provide insights on watershed management and insuring clean water. Team member Ian Lavery, MBA '10, talks about the challenge of merging environmental management and economic priorities, and the value of system dynamics.
While the ongoing world economic crisis has left many business leaders sweating (or worse), John Chambers is rolling up his sleeves in anticipation of an eventual recovery. After every economic challenge, he says, Cisco has come out with dramatic gains in market share. This time won't be different, if Chambers' bets pay off.
If economic analyses earned ratings like movies, this event would receive an X for extremely disturbing. Two of the field's most prominent voices spare any sugar coating in their unsettling accounts of the world's unfolding economic crisis.
There will be a time "beyond crisis," asserts Robert C. Merton, who delves into the dense science of derivatives -- a field he has fundamentally shaped -- to explain how the vast global economic collapse has come about, and how financial innovations at the heart of the collapse could also be tools for reconstruction.
From MarketWatch Ever since I was a graduate student in economics, I've been struggling with the uncomfortable observation that economic theories often don't seem to work in practice. That goes for that most influential economic theory, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which holds that investors are rational decision makers and market prices fully reflect all available information, that is, the "wisdom of crowds." Certainly, the principles of Efficient Markets are an excellent approximation to reality during normal business environments. It is one of the most useful, powerful, and beautiful pieces of economic reasoning that economists have ever proposed. It has saved generations of portfolio managers from bad investment decisions, democratizing finance along the way through passive investment vehicles like index funds. Then came the Financial Crisis of 2008; the "wisdom of crowds" was replaced by the "madness of mobs." Investors reacted emotionally and instinctively in response to extreme business environments — good or … Read More » The post This is your brain on stocks–Andrew Lo appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.


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FLASH Robotics | Social robots
Keeping eye contact
FLASH™ has taken part in an innovative experiment. It was aimed at discovering the key features that affect the human-robot interaction.
Experiment aims were to study various elements of interaction with a social robot using unique techniques. Proposed the following hypotheses:
- Gaze patterns of people interacting with FLASH™ follow rules observed in interaction between humans.
- Anthropomorphic elements of FLASH's design attract attention the most and cause the robot to be perceived as humanlike.
The pilot experiment was preceded by a pilot study on a group of 19 people. In experiments, as research tools, we used a mobile eye-tracker, which allows to achieve qualitative (heat and focus maps, gaze path, etc.) and quantitative (statistical quality indicators called KPIs) results. Interviews with the participants have also been carried out. The main experiment was carried out at the Main Railway Station in Wrocław. The choice of this location was motivated by the need to acquire a large number of participants with diverse demographic and social background. Test subjects were between 15 and 82 years of age and 26,9 was the average. 90 people (42 females and 48 males) participated in the experiment with the eye-tracking device and have lled out questionnaires afterwards. Additionally, 66 people took part in an in-depth interview.
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The mobile eye-tracking device from from Sensomotoric Instruments - SMI EyeTracking Glasses, provided by Simply User, is a high-end piece of equipment allowing the recording of a person's point of view and the path that their sight follows. It is completely unobtrusive to the user and consists of a sleek pair of glasses connected to a laptop that the test subject carries with them in a backpack. This kind of technology allows various eye-tracking experiments, such as shelf-testing, driving research or even analysis of training methods in sports, to be conducted out in the eld.
During the whole experiment FLASH™ operated autonomously and delivered all the instructions to the participants himself. The scenario implemented for this experiment was divided into 2 parts:
- INTRODUCTION - the robot greeted the person and held out his hand for a moment to allow the person to shake it. Next, FLASH™ said a few words about himself (where, when and for what purpose he was created) and demonstrated his gesticulative abilities. As the last part of introduction the robot complimented the color of the participant's clothes. All of these actions were undertaken to familiarize the person with the machine and create a bond between them.
- GAME - the main part of the experiment consisted of a simple game. The participant had to show toys to the robot in any order they wished. FLASH™ then reacted depending on the choice of a toy by pronouncing an emotional comment and expressing his emotions with facial expression and gesticulation. Robot's commentary added context to the emotions that he expressed, e.g. when expressing sadness he would inform the participant that They never let me play with this toy! or when surprised he would say I was sure that I had lost this toy!. This was done to increase the recognizability of the emotions. Four emotions were implemented for the experiment: anger, happiness, sadness and surprise. The game ended when the participant showed six toys after which the robot fell asleep.
Data collection
After the main part of the experiment, paper-and-pencil and individual indepth interviews were conducted. During the whole experiment FLASH™ operated autonomously and used his competencies to detect person, face, differentiate between human body parts and various colors and express emotions: anger, joy, sadness and surprise. The main aim was to check wether people look at FLASH™ just as they would at another human being, during the whole experiment and also its individual parts, i.e. the handshake, introduction, compliment, different toys and different emotions. Our expectations were that the results would turn out to be similar to those show on the website below:
The experiment proved to be instructive and managed to verify the proposed research methodology and the possibility of long-term autonomous operation of the robot. The results suggest the validity of our hypotheses. The face of the robot draws the most attention which lets us suspect that just as in human relationships, the respondents maintain eye contact with the robot. FLASH's torso as well as his hands and forearms were also drawing participants' gaze. More examples can be found here: www.eyetracker.com
Heat and Focus map obtained from the whole experiment. Subjects were watching the whole robot. However, they focused the most on FLASH's face.
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Heat and Focus map obtained from the welcome part (handshake). Subjects still focus their eyes on FLASH's face, but also on his right hand.
Heat and Focus map obtained from the final part of the experiment. Subjects are used to the robot by now and they focus only on FLASH's face.
Based on data gathered using IDI's we conclude that people could become attached to FLASH™. Popular reasons given by participants include:
- M. Dziergwa, M. Frontkiewicz, P. Kaczmarek, J. Kędzierski, M. Zagdańska, 2013. "Study of a Social Robot's Appearance Using Interviews and a Mobile Eye-Tracking Device", Social Robotics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_17, pages 170-179, Springer International Publishing [LINK] [DOWNLOAD].
The project has received funding from National Science Center, grant no. 2012/05/N/ST7/01098.


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Stories that should have been told
At last, we have done the decent thing! Our Taoiseach attended the Armistice Day ceremonies in Enniskillen and our Tanaiste did likewise in Belfast. Though President Mary Robinson had long set a precedent by her attendance at the religious ceremonies to mark the day, it has taken the Republic almost a century since the outbreak of World War I, to acknowledge the thousands of Irish men and women who served and died in that cataclysmic event in world history.
The survivors, returning to a changed Ireland, were written out of Irish history. They were silenced, isolated, and never allowed to tell their stories. Their successors, Irish men and women involved in World War II, returned to the same isolation, though, gradually, as Ireland was again changing, some chose to tell their personal stories, I heard a few.
A close friend, aged 23, was fascinated by flying, and left Ireland in 1942 to join the RAF. He was attached to an Australian squadron, and flew on many dangerous missions over Europe. He survived, against all the odds, and returned to his home in 1946. He rarely spoke about his experiences, and then only to make a brief mention of his comrades, the comaraderie, and the individual fear which all would confess to, as they journeyed towards conflict. His, was a fear of anti-aircraft fire, the flak-flak, as they crossed the English Channel.
He only once mentioned the most seminal event of his war experience. Following a two-weeks leave at home, he returned to his billet which normally accommodated 30 men, only to find that he was the sole occupant. All the others had been killed or were reported missing during his absence. He never talked about it again.
On the other side of that conflict there was Albert, the German Opa (grandfather) of four of my grandchildren. At 18, he was inducted into the army and trained as a wireless operator.
He never spoke about his experiences, until the last decade of the last war-torn century, when, as an old man, he was spending a holiday with some of his adult children and his grandchildren in a house in an Alpine Valley in northern Italy. Following a sunny day, the valley was engulfed in a raging storm of heavy rain, thunder and lightning. The children were frightened. The electricity was cut off. Nobody went to bed. The adults cradled and comforted the children, who eventually fell asleep in their arms.
Perhaps it was the din of the thunder echoing amidst the high mountain peaks that awakened a memory of the tumult of war, but Opa suddenly told the story of the Russian offensive and the Battle of the Don. He had been setting up his heavy radio equipment when a shell exploded close by, killing his two companions, and seriously injuring him. He remembered no more, until some days later he awoke in a hospital. He returned to his home many months later. He was, he said, the fortunate one, the very very lucky one. Of four brothers, two disappeared at Stalingrad. There were no known graves. The other was killed in the desert of North Africa, but there was a grave which had a name and a number.
And there was Eileen, an Englishwoman who lived for many years in Ireland. We, her friends, knew that she had been a nurse, but we did not know that she had served in the army, and that four days following the D-D invasion of Normandy, she had been a member of a team which had set up a field hospital immediately behind the battle lines.
On hearing this, we tried to get her to talk about her experiences, but she was reluctant. What did she do? There was a minimalist reply. She had seen terrible things. Her work involved preparing seriously injured soldiers for evacuation and a journey to a hospital back in Britain. Those who could not withstand that journey, could only be comforted and supported until they died. "We did what we had to do," she said, "we only did our duty." She could not be encouraged to expand on that duty. It was too painful a memory.
I only met my American cousin, Billy, on two occasions. He visited Ireland in 1945 when he was discharged, at the end of the war, from the US army and he came to see his father's birthplace. He had served in a medical unit as a stretcher-bearer, and at that time he quietly said that he was happy that he never had to kill another man, even the enemy.
I met him again in New York when he was an old man, and just before his death. He spoke, as if it was yesterday, about his wartime service in Europe. His greatest fear, he said, had been crossing unknown territory at night, during the Rhine offensive. There were many casualties in night-patrols, and his job involved bringing the wounded back to the field hospital. If they still had a breath of life in them, they could be located in the darkness by their cries. They called for their buddies, he said, but most of all, in that demented place, they called for their mothers. And those calls still echoed in his head.
Personal stories about significant events, and even about the mundane, are the threads of history. Official reports, days and dates, statistics, objective analysis, are all vital ingredients in historical studies. But it is the persoanl stories, the vignettes, the anecdotes, that tell of how ordinary people felt and reacted to momentous occurrences.
It is sad that during one period of Ireland's recent history, many of these stories could not be told, because the story-tellers were out-of-tune with the politics of the time.


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ALBION - A standing ovation greeted Julian Bond before he said a word Thursday night at Albion College. A renowned civil rights activist, Bond was the guest speaker of the 16th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation and Community Celebration. Albion College's Goodrich Chapel was full of students, city officials and members of the community.
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The following are general guidelines for the projects.
1. A project could be a report surveying a collection of papers on a topic. (i.e. describe the results and possibly a little about the techniques). A minimum of 5 papers would need to be surveyed.
2. A project could report on a smaller set of papers, and in addition implement and compare algorithms discussed in these papers, or inspired by these papers. For example, it is desirable to combine ideas from two papers or one paper and the ideas in the class, design a new heuristic algorithm, implement, and evaluate it on some data sets.
3. A project could report on several papers and seek to extend their results in a theoretical manner (e.g. obtain and analyze a new algorithm).
We recommend forming teams of 2 or 3 people so that you have someone with whom to discuss the papers you are reading and the algorithms you are developing. The requirements above are based on a 2-person team. Clearly more work is expected from a larger team.
A) Social and Information Network Analysis:
The following is a list of potential projects related to social network analysis. If you decide to explore a new heuristic algorithm on some new data sets, you can find some real-world networks at the Stanford Network Lab. Some useful code for computing PageRank or clustering can be found here.
A.1) [Community Detection and Graph Clustering] Large-scale graph clustering: Survey a list of implemented algorithms and tools for large-scale clustering of huge social networks. Focus on a handful of metrics such as modularity, conductance, density, clustering coefficients etc. Come up with one or two new heuristic algorithms, implement them for a set of large social networks, and compare with the result of publicly available tools (like Metis and GRACLUS) in terms of the above metrics.
The following are the set of relevant papers (the ones with a ** below are especially useful to read):
The following clustering tools may prove useful if you want to compare your heuristic algorithm with an existing tool:
The following two projects are two more specific topics in the area of A1.
A.2) [Modulariy and Local Clustering] Combining modularity-based clustering and local clustering.
Local clustering and modularity-based clustering are two important methods for clustering large networks. See the paper by Andersen et al. and the paper by Newman and Girvan for the specification of these algorithms. It would be interesting to combine them as follows: run a local clustering method to compute some large clusters and then run a modularity-based clustering method to sub-cluster these large clusters. The project is about a good implementation of this algorithm and comparing the outputs with local clusterings and modularity-based clustering only, and other possible clustering methods like Metis and GRACLUS. For related papers and tools, see A.1 above.
A.3) [Overlapping Graph Clustering] A large part of the previous literature about clustering networks is concerned with non-overlapping clustering or partitioning of the network. In reality, communities in social networks may overlap. Developing formal algorithms to discover such overlapping communities is important. The goal of this project is to formalize new problems capturing the quality of overlapping clusters, design heuristic algorithms for them, and compare formal metrics from these heuristics with the metrics after running well-known tools like Metis and GRACLUS. For related papers and tools, see A.1 above. In particular, the paper by Leskovec, Lang and Mahoney is a good place to read about some relevant metrics and interesting algorithms. For this project, other than some of the papers mentioned above, it helps to read the following papers:
A.4) [Evolving Social Networks] In the class, we discussed various generative models for social networks. There are a number of models and empirical studies describing the evolution of social networks over time. The following papers are a subset of papers in this direction. The desirable goal is to survey these models, and empirical studies and possibly study it for a new setting.
A.5) [Link Prediction in Social Networks]: An interesting and challenging problem in social network analysis is to predict the missing links in a social network. These techniques have applications in friend suggestions and recommendation systems. It is interesting to survey the current empirical and algorithmic approaches to this problem, and possibly to implement some new methods on new data sets and compare them with other new techniques.
Some useful data sets for real-world social networks can be found here.
B) Practical/Hybrid Problems in E-commerce, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Online Advertising:
B.1) [Externalities in Ad Auctions: The simplest form of the second-price ad auctions does not consider externalities in click-through rate among ads. In reality, there are various types of externalities (both negative and positive) and there is some research work on this topic. The goal of the project is to survey these results and possibly report some data analysis on some synthetic data set regarding the difference between the ad auctions with and without externalities. The following are examples of relevant papers for this topic:
B.2) [Rank Aggregation] An important algorithmic topic in search that we will not cover in the course is rank aggregation. Considering this problem from the perspective of an axiomatic approach, it is related to Arrow's impossibility result, and from the perspective of an optimization approach, it includes methods related to Kendall and Footrule distances, and Kemeny aggregation. The desirable goal is to survey these results and possibly compare some of them on some synthetic data sets.
C)Theoretical (or Hybrid) Problems: The following is a list of open theoretical problems. It is sufficient to survey the current results on a topic, and it would be great to make some even modest progress toward solving these new directions.
C.1) [Algorithmic Game Theory] In a recent work, Mirrokni, Nithum, and Vetta study look-ahead best-response dynamics in which players players play non-myopic best responses by predicting a constant number of look-ahead actions. We have already analyzed congestion games, valid-utility games, adword auction games, and Cournot duopoly. It would be nice to study this game or other potential games such as network design games, market sharing games, or other non-potential games such as anonymous games. The paper is soon going to be on Arxiv, and a link to the paper will be posted when the paper is available online.
C.2) [Graph Clustering, Spectral Graph Theory] In the following paper in WSDM 2012,
we have explored the advantage of using overlapping clustering for distributed computation. For details of why overlapping clustering helps in distributed computation, read the paper. The rough intuition is as follows: Consider a clustering of a graph where each cluster has volume at most B, and a random surfer going through nodes of the graph. Whenever the surfer needs to move to another cluster, it does so. We are interested in computing a clustering such that the random surfer needs to change clusters as linfrequently as possible, i.e., the goal is to minimize the fraction of times that the random surfer changes cluster in a long enough random walk. If we are allowed to choose an overlapping set of clusters, we can simulate the above process by associating each node v to a master cluster (among the clusters that include this node v), and simulate the random surfer as follows: whenever the surfer is moving to a node v outside the current cluster, it would move to the master cluster of node v. Such overlapping clustering may need fewer changes of clusters compared to non-overlapping clustering, especially if we are allowed to choose arbitrary number of clusters. The question is for what type of graphs can one gain a lot by using overlapping clustering. We can only prove a gain for special graphs like cycles, but empirically observe it for other graphs. It would be interesting to explore this question for other families of graphs, report more complete empirical results, and more importantly report analytical results in this regard. One conjecture is that this is provably true for planer graphs.
C.3) [Algorithmic Game Theory] (VERY HARD) Efficient Coordination mechanisms have been developed for machine scheduling problems both for the makespan social function and for the sum of completion times. We discussed these results in the class, and mentioned the recent papers on the topic. Extending these coordination mechanisms to the selfish routing game is an interesting problem. To understand the context for applying the idea of coordination mechanisms to selfish games, see the WINE 2009 paper by Hoefer, Mirrokni, Roeglin, and Teng on "Selfish Routing over time". An interesting and important research direction in algorithmic game theory is to come up with a coordination mechanism for edges of a network such that the price of anarchy of the resulting network is good.
C.4) [Computational Game Theory](HARD) In a STOC 2008 paper, named "The Myth of the Folk Theorem", we present two complexity results about computing equilibria in repeated games: 1) we show computing a NE in repeated 3-player games is PPAD-hard, and 2) we show that finding the threat point for a family of games including congestion games is NP-hard. To learn about the threat point definition, see the STOC 2008 paper. An interesting question is to study the complexity of computing NE in other special games, e.g., anonymous games, market sharing games, valid-utility games, network design games, etc.
C.5) [Combinatorial Optimization, Social Networks] (VERY HARD) Submodular maximization applied to Social Networks.
Both monotone and nonmonotone submodular maximization have been used in the context of maximizing influence & maximizing revenue over social networks [in two papers: influence maximization in a paper by Kempe, Kleinberg, Tardos, and revenue maximization in a paper by Hartline, Mirrokni, Sundararajan].
The algorithms for these special cases achieve approximations of 0.63 and 0.40, respectively, in line with the known results for submodular maximization. Can one improve the approximation factor for these problems?
C.6) [Scheduling for data centers] This topic is not covered in the class but is related to the algorithms and economics of the Internet. Consider a set J of jobs to be scheduled on a set M of machines. Each job j \in J has a size s_j a release time r_i, and a processing time p_j. Each machine i \in M has a total capacity C_i. Our goal is to process the jobs on these machines and minimize the average (or the maximum?) number of machines needed. As a starting point, we wish to solve the problem for unit-size jobs with arbitrary processing times. Online Scheduling: Consider the above scheduling problem in the online setting where jobs arrive online, i.e., their release time is equal to their arrival time. At the time of arrival (or within a short deadline), we should assign each job to a machine to be scheduled on that machine. Our goal is to do this online allocation of jobs to machines and to minimize the average number of machines used in this process. We are interested in both offline and online scheduling algorithms that minimize the number of machines used. This has important applications in the cost-effective running of large data centers.
C.7) [Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithms, Combinatorics] Consider the following game manipulation problem. Let G be a directed graph where the nodes represent players of a game, and an edge from u to v means that u can beat v in the game. (If an edge (u, v) is not present, one cannot have u and v play each other.) Given G and a "favorite" node A, is it possible to set up the bracket of a balanced single-elimination tournament so that A is guaranteed to win, if match results occur as predicted by G? In a recent paper (available here), it has been shown that the problem is NPcomplete for general graphs. For the case when G is a tournament graph, several conditions has been given on the desired winner A which ensure that there exists a balanced single-elimination tournament which A wins, and it can be found in polynomial time.
Question: Can one give an approximation algorithm to maximize the rank of a "favorite node" in a tournament graph G within a constant additive ranking error? Is the problem poly-time solvable for other graphs?


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A Lynchburg federal district judge adopts the analysis of U.S. v. Hinen, 287 F. Supp. 2d 747 (W.D. Va. 2007) [VLW 007-3-184], and holds that the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act applies to this defendant, convicted in Virginia ...Read More »
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Timaeus is a system tray application that runs in the background and shows the passage of the planetary hours and the current rising sign as tray icons that change over time according to astrological conditions. It is like having an "astrological weather forecast" on a continual basis. Timaeus also alerts you with user defined sounds when the alerts you set are triggered or a planetary hour changes. These alerts can be set for planetary positions at a given degree or for when a given planet crosses the horizon and meridian angles. Typically these are most useful in horary astrology (for the judging of questions) and electional astrology (for selecting the right time to do something important). Timaeus is also capable of monitoring natal charts, finding transits and various types of progressions to natal positions and gives interpretations in what could be called an advanced daily horoscope. When you hover the mouse over the icons, a popup hint appears showing the current hour lord, time elapsed and time remaining in minutes, and the ascendant and midheaven degrees. Timaeus not only runs in the background, but you can bring it into the foreground by double clicking (or right clicking for a context menu) which will by default show the transiting chart for the moment set for your current location on the Monitor tab. From there you can compare natal to transits, various progression types, run the graphic ephemeris, rectify the chart, animate transits and progressions, print chart wheels and generate Acrobat reports for various chart analyses. If you're not sure what you need, there is a software feature matrix to help you understand the differences between Timaeus Pro, Delphic Oracle XPF and Delphic Oracle WL.
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The Main Options comprise more than 130 separate settings. Primary directions alone have a total of about 100 different settings (adding the fixed stars brings them to over 1000). The Solar Revolution method based upon Umar Al-Tabari has been included at the request of Benjamin Dykes, PhD and can do comparisons of solar returns to natal or distribute solar return positions to itself.
The options are quite broad which can be seen in the graphic at left. Over 1100 fixed stars (you can filter by magnitude and ecliptic latitude or declination, the beginnings of filtering redundant directions and several historical usage themes which the user can add to. Unlike most software, the calculation range is in the neighborhood of 5400 years (15 cycles of 360 degrees) suitable for use in mundane astrology. There is a progress bar and cancel button for these longer calculations and it is on a separate thread to avoid hanging the application.
This is also set up with live data which allows one to click on a direction under the M/Z column and see any number of user defined charts as specified on the Options | Generated tab after pressing F3 (Main Options). As in Delphic Oracle, one can drag the splitter down and click on any direction to see the internal debug data for those who are mathematically proficient and want to check the calculations.
The Graph is also contains live data and will show your Autogenerated Charts (transits, progressions, etc) you specify so that you can compare the charts for the time you clicked on to the natal in a flash! Once the chart(s) are showing, you can animate them backwards or forwards in time with either the rectification toolbar for single wheels or the transit toolbar for multiple wheels.
Colors can be chosen for any object displayed in the wheel and saved as a Color Theme. User defined glyphs allow you to switch to your favorite glyph for any given celestial object. There are now 43 different planets / asteroids / points which can be shown in the chart wheel!
Wheel Categories allow you to quickly redesign your own wheel types and see the results immediately by redrawing the chart type you are working on. There's no need for clumsy wheel definitions, simply save a wheel theme on the Themes tab when you have made your settings.
The chart database is searchable and you can do case sensitive searches or limit your searches to a given database or search all databases at once. The data entries can be sorted according to alphabetical order, dates and chart types depending upon the column header you click on. The new data entry window allows you to enter notes about the chart, show accuracy of the birth info, etc.
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- Reports for dates of heliacal rising and setting within 7 days of the birth date, a listing of arabic parts, planetary speed, 12th parts (dwadasamsa, dodekatamoira), monomoiria, Valens eminence indicators and more...
- Includes the ability to print all charts and graphs in the same way Delphic Oracle does and can also generate Acrobat files for charts and data calulations such as primary directions, almutem figuris and essential dignities, degrees, asteroid positions, planetary declinations and parans, etc...
- Includes optional user defined docking for all windows so you can control whether a window docks or floats. When floating, windows remember their size and position on screen even between program restarts.
- Generates HTML reports of your charts with essential dignity tables, lot positions, eminence indicators and more; this is especially helpful when building a website.
- Chart Orientation capability that allows you to display fortune houses with the part of fortune as the ascendant in 3 different modes (0 degrees, 15 degrees or exact degree of fortune sign). The same can be done with whole sign houses from the ascendant.
- Displays chart ascensional times for the zodiac signs according to Hellenistic tradition (Valens) in the center of the chart wheel or as popup hints when hovering the mouse over signs.
- Popup hints that display the planets statistical details such as, exact position to the 100th second of arc, domicile, exaltation, triplicity, bound and decan lords as well as planetary sect, the winds of the planets and their chariots.
- Calculates Derivative Charts such as solar returns (both modern and Hellenistic), lunar returns and planetary returns out to pluto for up to 100 cycles from the search date forward or backward in time. Also calculates the 3rd, 7th and 40th day of the Moon charts according to Hellenistic tradition.
- A user defined asteroid database that is capable of calculating sorted asteroid data for all asteroids where Swiss Ephemeris files exist (there are currently over 200,000 asteroids files in the Swiss Ephemeris database).
- Transit delineations based upon your birth chart with interpretations using local determination with over 5,000 delineations of planets as lord of a given house or in a given house.
- Chart rectification and transit animation toolbars allow you to watch planet positions change over time animating the natal chart or transiting charts by user defined increments.
- Planetary hour and rising sign glyphs that shows the current hour and rising sign in the system tray. When you hover your mouse over the glyph, the time elapsed, time remaining (in minutes), ascendant and midheaven degrees show in a popup hint. Double clicking on the glyph can be set to show a chart of the current sky positions, celestial statistics, or a schedule of planetary hours.
- Customizable alerts that play a *.wav file you specify to alert you when a planet or degree crosses one of the 4 angles in real time.
- Swiss Ephemeris level accuracy. Timaeus uses the Swiss Ephemeris which is one of the most accurate planetary calculation engines in existence and has a range of 10,110 years (can calculate birth charts between Jan 1, 4713 BCE - Dec 31, 5,399 CE).
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Katerina Katelieva, Richard Harmon, Mayumi Yoshida
A naive college student, Evangeline, is brutalized by a gang of thrill seeking killers. Left to die in the forest, her corpse is revived by an ancient demon spirit that empowers her with a blood-lust for vengeance.
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Science Update news 2/14/17
Animal Model: Monkey daily chronic recording experiment
Feature: György Buzsáki
Published July 14, 2014
Drs Antal Berényi and György Buzsáki recently published a paper titled "Large-scale, high-density (up to 512 channels) recording of local circuits in behaving animals."
This paper describes a system that allows high-channel-count recordings from a small volume of neuronal tissue using a lightweight signal multiplexing headstage that permits free behavior of small rodents. The system integrates multishank, high-density recording silicon probes, ultraflexible interconnects, and a miniaturized microdrive. These improvements allowed for simultaneous recordings of local field potentials and unit activity from hundreds of sites without confining free movements of the animal.
NeuroNexus caught up Dr. Buzsáki to discuss recording using probes with very high densities of recording sites, such as the NeuroNexus Buzsaki256 probe.
Q: In the introduction to the paper it is stated that "monitoring a statistically representative fraction of neurons of the investigated circuits in behaving animals is a prerequisite for understanding neuronal computation." In your opinion, what is the practical lower limit for the number of channels required to reach that "statistically representative fraction"? In a perfect world, is there an upper limit on how many sites you would like to record from?
This is of course a super important question and there is not a good answer to it. If one records from a homogenous population (eg., locus coeruleus), the fraction may be small and perhaps 1-5% is sufficient. On the other hand, in the neocortex, there is an enormous diversity of cell classes, and some types of interneurons are very rare. Thus, if one wants to have a 'representative' snapshot of how neurons interact recordings from even the rarest ones are needed. An additional complication for sampling eg., pyramidal neurons of the cortex is that their firing rates show a very strongly skewed (typically log-normal) distribution. While only 10% of the neurons do half of the job, understanding the remaining half requires sampling from very large numbers of neurons. The more the better.
Q: The Buzsaki256 probe has 256 sites within the active recording area that spans 1.6 mm (along the shanks) by 2.1 mm. In the discussion of the paper it is stated that "Denser recording sites without increasing the shank volume is desirable," and you look on the horizon to probes with ">1000 site counts and 20 um site spacing." What site density would you consider sufficient for unit recordings and cell clustering? What is the optimal minimum site spacing, beyond which you see no further benefit?
Designing an optimum probe depends on the scientific question. For reliably separating cortical pyramidal neurons our estimate is that 15-20 µm spacing is a good compromise between separability of neurons and probe size. One would like to have more but without increasing probe width and depth. The size of the probe is very critical. Most current NeuroNexus probes are too wide and far from the ideal. For the new 1000 site probes, I specified the 20 µm spacing out of compromise. My favorite probe for exploring cortical circuits would have <60 µm shanks, 20 µm spacing, staggered on the sides, and contain 250-300 sites to cover the entire depth of the neocortex. Multiple shanks with 150µm apart would be desirable, ideally with signal multiplexer integrated in the back end of the probe.
Q: The Buzsaki256 probe is a planar design with 32 sites on each of eight shanks. Do you see advantages to a 3-dimensional probe (with the ability to span both cortical columns and cortical layers) as opposed to the planar approach? Would the 3D approach loosen the density requirements, or would that remain the same?
3-d probes have merits. However, the number one rule in neurophysiology is to record from a healthy brain. Inserting an 8-shank 2-D probe requires quite a bit of surgical experience and despite best intentions, recordings are not always successful. The brain is extremely dense with blood vessels and 'shooting' a 3 –D probe into the tissue comes with costs. I have seen histology from many such 3-D arrays from rodents to primates and layer I and often layer 2 are invariably destroyed or compromised. Studying such mutilated cortical tissue is not my intention, although I understand that recording from units even from such compromised tissue can be useful for certain applications.
Q: Your lab has utilized the Buzsaki256 probe design in a published study entitled "Spatially Distributed Local Fields in the Hippocampus Encode Rat Position" that helped illustrate the need for large spatial coverage. Ultimately, what types of questions do high-channel, high-site-density probes allow you to answer that couldn't otherwise be addressed?
Silicon probes have the great advantage for studying the mesoscopic local field potential signals. The 256-site probe was designed to accomplish this, allowing to record simultaneously the LFP signals from multiple regions, simultaneously with units (even if the unit yield with such probes is less powerful than from higher density version). Imaging methods have only one type of signal. Electrically one can record both neuronal output with spikes and their inputs with high resolution LFP, as well as looking at the relationship between individual components and their aggregate responses.
Feature: Chou P. Hung
Published June 1, 2014
Drs Chou P. Hung, Chia-pei Lin, and Yueh-peng Chen recently published a paper titled "Tuning and spontaneous spike time synchrony share a common structure in macaque inferior temporal cortex."
NeuroNexus caught up Dr. Chou to discuss his work, techniques, and potential applications for humans.
Q: Your study was performed on primates. Do you think the findings are directly applicable for humans? If not, what are the differences that you might expect?
The short answer is, "yes." Previously, it was thought that the more differently cells behave, the more information they carry. Our study says that instead, it is the cells that behave more similarly, the 'choristers,' that carry the useful information. The other cells, the 'soloists,' may fine-tune the patterns. The dense spacing of these arrays, about 32 channels per cortical column, was critical to measuring this correlated activity. For ethical reasons, we can't make the same recordings in humans, but our preliminary data indicate that this activity in primates is linked to coarser signals in human functional imaging and to human psychophysics. Understanding these issues is important to unraveling how we learn and what goes wrong in mental diseases, where studies have found altered correlated activity in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) but the link to single neurons has not been made.
Q: Your study found that "tuning and spike synchrony were linked by a common spatial structure that is highly efficient for Object representation." What is the next step in this research?
In autism and other brain diseases, brain imaging signals have different patterns, but it has been difficult to link these coarser patterns to mechanisms in single cells. It would be helpful if we had a better understanding of how different signal types are linked in the same animal. Also, how the brain recognizes visual information is an extremely challenging problem. It is much harder than reasoning. Understanding how the brain processes information is key to understanding how the brain creates intelligence. To do this, we would like to better understand what are the roles of the choristers versus the soloists. If our hypothesis is correct, the choristers and soloists should have different roles in learning and behavior. We would like to find the underlying principles and to apply them, at a suitable level of abstraction, in computational models. These are among the goals outlined in the Brain Initiative, and the dense spatiotemporal sampling enabled by these arrays is critical to meeting these goals.
Q: You were recording with 64-channel probes that had a planar design. In your perfect world, how many sites would you like to be able to record from simultaneously to get the optimal contrast/area coverage for similar visual studies?
Having 64 channels in two cortical columns is already very good, because it lets us hear correlated single-unit activity that would be missed at coarser resolutions. Theoretically, the effects of correlated activity are amplified in densely connected, homogeneous populations. But, because neurons are very heterogeneous, even within a cortical column, dense sampling is necessary to hear the correlated activity. Our preliminary data indicate that at least ~8 channels per cortical column are needed to measure an effect of noise correlation on object coding, and the effect size increases at higher density. This threshold might vary across cortical areas - in our studies, about half the V1 neuronal pairs in an array were correlated, versus only about 6% in inferior temporal cortex, during spontaneous activity. This may have to do with the increasing complexity of the representation along the ventral visual pathway. In a perfect world, it might be good to increase the range of depth, because 1.4 mm isn't quite enough to sample all cortical layers simultaneously. But, there is a tradeoff in the signal quality as you increase the number of contacts.
Q: Would a 3-dimensional probe (with the ability to span both cortical columns and cortical layers) benefit your research? If so, in what way?
Definitely, a 3D array would help. Having a 3D array would give us a clearer picture of phenomena such as surround inhibition, and it would aid in efforts to link spiking activity to functional imaging in the same animal. Going to 3D may also improve chronic stability, so that we can track changes in the activity patterns during learning. Also, 3D would help with the issue of having sufficient spatial density, to 'hear' the neurons that are strongly interconnected and that 'care' about the animal's behavioral task.


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Sunday, September 2, 2012
SpringBoard: Common Core Crap
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Hey, Peg,ReplyDelete
While you are of course correct in all of the above, probably the question most (if not all, even your readers) parents might ask is, how is this different than other directions for school processes?
I think many of us who are or were teachers have a sense that what we are losing is a kind of "risky autonomy," a space of possibility that can prompt the wholly untutored "self-discovery" by the students (and that reveals an opportunity for growth in the teacher as well).
The scripts are simply getting tighter and tighter and straying from the script is no longer acceptable and instead is punishable.
So, what this, again, as you know, is another method of control to reduce the "unknown" that might happen in a classroom, in a relationship, between student and teacher.
It is further an expansion of authoritarian control; further still it is an expansion of "expertise" that will create further distance between the parent and the school (and between the child and the parent) by offering rules the parent cannot understand that the child must learn and apply. In other words, no parent will help with homework in the correct way.
But, though this is indeed Power on Overdrive, it is a difference only in degree and not in kind and this is why parents on the whole would not even know why it should be opposed. Who's ever experienced freedom in school?
So, what we must argue for is (sorry, Henry), at once, NO SCHOOL, not a a better school. But in this I mean, no large, district-or-state-managed schools.
If people are to ever be able to be "random" they need a structure that will allow this kind of freedom.
Teachers (and I am one and so feel this as well) want their own freedom too. But a school is a system and it requires that there is no freedom. Even our "advanced" students are not free, they are simply given different instructions in what their future can be within a separate rule-structure.
As E.F. Schumacher offered a long time ago, Small is Beautiful. More than likely we, in our towns (probably not in our cities which are too beholden to systems of bureaucratic operation on every level, and not too mention corporate influence), will need to reconfigure the "good life" for ourselves and our children.
But that means we have to start saying NO to almost everything at once.
SpringBoard is not just a front for the Common Core. My district has used it for the past three years, well before CC, with excellent results. The first reaction was much like yours. But after using it and learning about the flexibility it gives good teachers and the guidance it gives new and struggling teachers, the faculty really enjoys it. Our kids are writing and comprehending with greater depth. Give it a chance. The training and support College Board has provided is excellent.ReplyDelete
Oh no. They are implementing Spring Bored at my son's school! More worksheet nonsense! And I've heard that grammar is not even taught with Spring Bored. And why do 11 year olds need to be college ready? How about just ready for 6th grade? Is Coleman a teacher? Thanks for the analysis. I don't know how teachers can follow scripted lessons. I just got a last minute subbing job for the first week of school (I'm an art teacher) and they are sending an arts integration specialist with lesson plans that I must follow. I am an experienced teacher and should be allowed to teach my lessons, that I know are age appropriate. I need to be flexible to adapt to needs of kids. It's insulting. Scripted art lessons! I won't do it! AngieReplyDelete
Lisa - the key is Common Core - anything developed with the Common Core as its backbone must be refused. Common Core is the missing link needed to create more high stakes standardized tests - one for every subject - at great expense, not to mention immense suffering for our children. All of these tests, which do not improve student achievement, will be used to fail public schools and privatize public education. Common Core is not an innocent set of standards, therefore SpringBoard is simply not another innocent highly scripted curriculum. Thank you for your thoughts. For more on Common Core you ought to check out Dr. Yong Zhao!ReplyDelete
Angie - Promise me you will blog on this experience and give us a screenshot of one of those scripted art lessons!!! Be sure to check out Mrs. Dottie's blog at http://angievillaartwork.blogspot.com . Scripted art lessons - insulting indeed!!!ReplyDelete
Ah Storm...why you always gotta do that ??? :) A comment was just posted on my blog on FB - this is what it said, "This is now being imposed on our schools. You should have seen the veritable ARMY of representatives that CollegeBoard sent to our school board meeting to make sure that the deal was sealed! People who had been through many textbook adoptions said they'd never seen anything like it." This is full throttle takeover. It is my humble opinion, Storm, that teachers such as yourself, and myself, and the many others who read this blog, must be ready to pick up the pieces and create the schools children have always deserved. Teachers have always been their own worst enemies. At this point, I do not have great hopes that we will win - the corporate takeover is hitting us from every angle. I have not given up and will NOT give up - but, many of us, are now preparing for the aftermath...and when the masses wake up, we must be ready.ReplyDeleteReplies
I believe there are two kinds of good teacher: 1) a teacher who LOVES and accepts all children and has time and space and care enough to allow a safe place for development; this teacher encourages all attempts to discover and learn and feel and dream; this teacher encourages encouragement--in ALL their charges--so that all students together encourage all other students. This teacher may still say "yes" to the rules of the system and culture, but always puts the stress on the single being caring for other single beings. If the choice is between the "greater good" and the care of the single being, she chooses the single being. 2) is a teacher who is intellectually antagonistic to systems and abstract laws that serve the socially approved "ways" of living and acting and speaking and even thinking. This teacher talks about the system as if (as it is) it was a THING to learn outside of what might seem natural. This teacher agrees that society needs rules to operate but that these rules must always be challenged and confronted with a conscientiousness that, again, privileges the single being's perception of what is a right/just (?) way to be. This teacher always asks another question and encourage students to ask another question even if an answer can't be found. To understand that answers are often arbitrary even if socially acceptable.Delete
Two great teachers may also be found in one kind of teacher. But these teachers need to be in elementary school in droves. We must find these teachers and offer children the perspectives that will allow them to care about each other, challenge power, but know how to operate within power without losing a sense of individual value and caring.
And yes, the current public school will be destroyed and machines will be the only implement allowed. And all information will be stored.
I would be tempted now to advertise a pencil and paper school as a kind of nostalgia. Surely there are still folks that want to use tangibly manipulable objects to create "identity" badges like writing and drawing? Surely there are folks who want to play instruments and not manipulate sounds on a computer.
We will need to help each other in this new world.
I'm that teacher who loves all children and insists they find something in themselves to love. My behavior management tool is first getting to know who they are, so I will understand the "why" behind the things they do. When they see how much time I have spent getting to know them and finding out their dreams for the future, my students try their best to live up to my high expectations. My school district rewarded me for my efforts by not renewing my contract and allowing harassment to continue that eventually left me barely able to function. There is no room for love, compassion and dreaming in elementary school, it's a data-driven business where someone decided to sell out our children.Delete
As a retired teacher who now consults with school districts--teaching teachers about teaching (teaching as a disappearing art)-- I have been checking out the College Board curriculum, especially within grades 7-12. It removes the learning process from the pedagogy, from the student. I'm sure all those vultures meeting in Arizona are sure to love College Board and how its data-ready designed lesson planning will help bring one of them into the privatization winner's circle as the first to extract a billion dollars in profit from the remaining public schools as well as their charter schools.ReplyDelete


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Ralph Lauren will provide the U.S. Olympians with their official clothing for the second straight summer games. For the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, American athletes will sport white pants, a blue blazer and a beret. What the what? Americans in berets? Hipsters haven't even adopted such ridiculous headgear. I pity Ryan Lochte, Bryan Clay, Giuseppe Lanzone and Heather Mitts having to model such traitorous hats on American soil! I say we call them floppy freedom hats and never speak of this again! I'm sure someone agrees with me on this … What's that? FOX News? Shit.
Well then. What I meant to say is that this is a fitting tribute to the troops. Yes! I'm a huge fan of the troops, as is everyone on this website. God bless America and our patriotic red, white and blue berets! Everyone should wear berets in America. In fact, there's only one person to blame for not putting more people in berets.
Oops. I can't remember if I'm turning left or right here. Forget it. I'm still going to call them floppy freedom hats.
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