Keep Your Resolutions Short, Simple, Specific to be Successful

‘Tis the season for making New Year’s resolutions, a custom that goes back 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonian empire. The Babylonians also gave us New Year’s celebrations, although they celebrated in March when they planted their crops

Does it Ever Become Too Late to Get Back in Touch?

The saved black-and-white pictures are hard to make out and for most of the people there is no information on the back to identify who they are. In one, I am sitting in a highchair with three other children with a cake and candles in front of me. In a second, there is a birthday cake on a card table and I am standing next to a large dog

Technology Sometimes Moves So Rapidly That It’s Hard to Keep Up

I have had to face the fact that my students know more about technology than I do. And when something goes wrong with the technology during class, I know that a student will call out, “Click on the lower left-hand corner” or “You need to minimize that screen.

It’s Difficult to Concentrate During a Crisis – Especially for Students Away from Home

Within just a few days after recent Hurricane Irma, the emails began arriving: A student in Key West would miss my history class because her family home had been destroyed and she was helping them relocate. Another student needed to drive to Atlanta to pick up her grandmother who fled from South Florida to avoid the approaching storm

Paper Session II-B - Checkout & Launch Control System

The Checkout and Launch Control System (CLCS) is a NASA-led effort to design, develop, and implement a new Launch Processing System (LPS) at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). This re-engineering of hardware and software will support processing the Space Shuttle and future launch vehicles in the Launch Control Center (LCC), Hypergolic Maintenance Facility (HMF), Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), Shuttle Avionics Integration Lab (SAIL) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), Dryden, and the Main Engine Processing Facility (SSMEPF). CLCS is a distributed system utilizing state of the art technology in both hardware and software development. CLCS consists of four major systems: Simulation System (SIM), Real Time Processing System (RTPS), Business and Support Information Service (BASIS), and Shuttle Data Center (SDC). The goal of CLCS is to provide a system that will process the Shuttle more efficiently as well as reduce cost over the current system. To achieve these goals, the CLCS architecture will strive to provide standardization, rapid turnaround, automation, local control, multi-operation support, integrated displays, and desktop simulation using a flexible configured system

Rural men getting through adversity: stories of resilience

The aim of this study was to identiy the factors that have helped rural men to move through adversity. A total of ten men from Queensland took part in the study. Participants shared their experiences through in-depth, unstructured interviews. The participants shared a diverse range of difficulties in their lives, but on analysis it become apparent that there were similarities in how the participants overcame those difficult times. Two major themes identified in the study were: the individual and inner strength and support and strategies

Spending unsupervised time online with friends encourages delinquency and drug and alcohol use among teenagers

The rise of digital communication through smartphones and other devices in the past decade has transformed the way in which adolescents communicate with one another; friends are now essentially always present and available. In new research, Jim Clark and Ryan C. Meldrum find that this connectivity – when unstructured and unsupervised by adults – is linked to adolescent delinquency and substance abuse

Hunch Mining: Intuition Augmented with Cognitive Computing, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence

Hunches are important tools for executives making time-critical highly complex decisions in turbulent environments. However, hunches are also elusive and exist below the surface when not being used for immediate decision making. These latent hunches can be useful for developing analytical models. This paper coins the term hunch mining to describe the process of surfacing latent hunches from corporate decision makers as well as workers and using them as models for data analytics. We present the Organizational Hunch Matrix and show how organizations can make the leap from time-consuming manual cognitive analysis to artificial intelligence and analytics driven analysis facilitated by Cognitive Computing Engineers