Category: Reading

Latest Read: AI and the Future of Education

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 3, 2024

AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Priten Shah.

He holds an M.ED. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard. Priten is CEO of Pedagogy.Cloud and founder of the civic-focused nonprofit United 4 Social Change.

Priten is addressing the impact of AI upon education in mid 2023. The date is important due to the weekly advances in the AI industry and a near frantic desire for teachers in K12 and Higher Education to understand the impact upon teaching.

Perhaps the challenge to all authors addressing AI’s impact across education is the need for educational systems to protect students while trying to understand the security and privacy impacts AI has upon schools that must meet those privacy mandates for children.

Then again, within the last six to eight months the AI Agents announced by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will certainly be viewed by teachers as a threat. It may surprise many that when teachers are requesting access to Microsoft CoPilot, they overlook this AI’s agent functions that will be available to them 24/7 for every class they are enrolled in and includes agent functions for academic support.

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Education, Priten Shah

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Latest Read: Digital Earth

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 31, 2024

Digital Earth: Cyber Threats, Privacy and Ethics in an Age of Paranoia by Sarah Katz. She is currently a Cybersecurity Technical Writer at Microsoft.

Sarah holds Master of Arts, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a PhD in Cyberpsychology from Capitol Technology University. Sarah has been published in Cyber Defense Magazine, Dark Reading, Infosecurity Magazine, and ISACA Journal.

On the surface this book may appear not to be for organizational leaders, it actually belongs in the hands of your organization’s CIO, Finance, Legal, Risk Management and of course CISO. However this is for your leadership. Sarah has written a well researched book addressing key cybersecurity threats. This should be review by any organization’s entire technology division. In fact, this extends well beyond any organization’s IT Division or dedicated team. You’ll see why.

This is a perfect read for anyone studying or holding an interesting in cybersecurity career fields. Sarah provides in depth research from well established cybersecurity firms, Homeland Security, and research institutions both in private and public sectors.

Tags Cyber Threats, Digital Earth, pandemic, Phishing, privacy, Sarah Katz

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Latest Read: Future Ready

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 27, 2024

Future ready: The four pathways to capturing digital value by Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian.

Stephanie is director and a research scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford. She has done presentations and workshops for top management teams and boards of large global firms, been a subject matter expert for the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, and moderated a number of panels, including one on the future of financial services for the Federal Reserve.

Peter is professor of Information Systems Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chairman emeritus of the MIT CISR. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from NYU. He has also published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and academic outlets. Ziff Davis recognized Weill as #24 of “The Top 100 Most Influential People in IT” and the highest-ranked academic.

Ina is a research scientist at the MIT CISR. She holds a PhDs in International Management from the University of Hawaii and is published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, and academic outlets.

So, can you create a future-ready organization? Seems to be the hot topic in the new ChatGPT age of AI. Stephanie, Peter, and Ina are indeed addressing the real world of Schneider Electric’s IoT growth, CEMEX, WeChat, or even Fidelity Investments. Each has made a successful digital transformation to become as future ready as Amazon Web Services.

Tags digital transformation, Future ready, Harvard Business Review, Ina Sebastian, Innovation, Peter Weill, Stephanie Woerner

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Latest Read: Leading with AI and Analytics

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 24, 2024

Leading with AI and Analytics: Build Your Data Science IQ to Drive Business Value by Eric Anderson and Florian Zettelmeyer.

Eric is Professor of Marketing, former Chair of the Marketing Department and Director of the Kellogg-McCormick MBAi Program at Northwestern University. He holds a PhD in Management Science from MIT and has taught previously at the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester.

Florian is Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University and directs the Program on Data Analytics. He holds a PhD in Marketing from MIT and previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley, while also briefly working at McKinsey. He is a senior science leader at Amazon leading their Advertising Economics organization.

A very well written book with a targeted audience for organizational leadership. This wonderful introduction is addressing AI and business analytics for leaders who actually rely upon senior managers to execute analytics for their organization.

Perhaps no better example of establishing a comprehensive plan to deploy an Artificial Intelligence Analytics (AIA) Framework. In fact, the key for organizational leadership is to understand what is going on with your data. Ultimately this will provide insights to support any organization’s integration of AI services within their digital transformation.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, data science, Eric Anderson, Florian Zettelmeyer, Leading with AI and Analytics

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Latest Read: Unmasking AI

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 17, 2024

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini.

Joy is a computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League. She is a Rhodes Scholar, a Fulbright fellow, a Stamps Scholar, an Astronaut Scholar, and an Anita Borg Institute scholar. Joy holds a Masters and PhD in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT.

Unmasking AI is Joy’s memoir regarding her graduate work at Harvard. Joy is introducing her project regarding facial recognition. She realized her own face could not be identified unless she actually placed a white Halloween mask in-front of her face as a camera captured and attempted to identify her.

However, her work contributes to demonstrating the in accuracy of AI. Joy research is indeed like Dorthy in The Wizard of Oz, pulling back the curtain on the inaccuracies of AI facial recognition systems. And to some extent, also exposing the growing wealth of companies profiting from these already deployed.

Yet when informing her thesis committee that bias in AI has the potential to harm women and minorities, the perception includes many do not want to acknowledge these errors. Joy even receives feedback which questions the level of harm faulty facial recognition, and if is actually ‘significant’ enough to warrant this research.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Joy Buolamwini, Unmasking AI