Academia: Postdoctoral System

• The Postdoctoral System is Broken [Nature]  #Academia  #HigherEducationLeadership

“There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. Some end up trapped as ‘permadocs’: doing multiple postdoc terms, staying for many years and, in a small but significant proportion, never leaving. What does the future hold?

By the time … reached her twelfth year as a postdoctoral fellow, she had finally had enough …”

Microsoft

• Microsoft makes its Azure DocumentDB cloud NoSQL database available to all [Venturebeat]

Artificial Intelligence @IBM

• IBM Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer Jeff Hawkins’ Brain-inspired Algorithms [MIT Technology Review]

“IBM is testing an idea for making computers more intelligent by utilizing Jeff Hawkins’ ideas on how the human brain operates.”

Articles

• Short Review of “How to create a Mind” by Ray Kurzweil and “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins [TahsinVersion2.com]

• Artificial Intelligence: Platforms & Apps – At My Ventures [TahsinVersion2.com]  #AtMyVentures