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Socos Academy: Innovation & Pluralism

Socos Academy: Suspicious Minds

This week’s Socos Academy explores the tension between trust and diversity, how the brain responds to strangers, and the impact of both on innovation. Mad Science Solves... I'm going to start off this week's mad science solves with an unabashed brag. I am asked to give talks around the

Suspicious Minds

For more than 10 years, companies have asked me to make the business case for diversity. It turns out to be an easy case to make. Research ranging from theory-driven lab experiments to economic analyses of the global economy have shown again and again that organizations that are both diverse

Socos Academy: Love

I’ve been away. You have my apologies for not delivering an episode of Socos Academy in recent weeks. This week’s Socos Academy slips through the shadows of love: for science, for my wife, and for my mom. Mad Science Solves... On June 25, my mother had a massive

Avuncular

Socos Academy: Face Space

Welcome back to Socos Academy with our weekly updates on mad science projects, upcoming events, tours through the latest research, and, as always, a sample from one my draft book chapters. This week: Faces! Mad Science Solves… I’ve been working on the latest draft of “SexyFace”, from Professional Mad

Socos Academy: Muse!

This month’s episode considers the messy realities of education and the challenges in making real change. One of our biggest projects at Socos Labs has been the creation of Muse@Home, a system designed to help parents, grandparents, and other guardians raise amazing kids. Rather than building a game

Socos Academy: Mendacity!

Welcome to the weekly Socos Academy newsletter, a tour through the latest research, mad science projects, upcoming events, and my latest book chapters.

The Coolest Jobs in the World

A Chasm Grows in Brooklyn

The Modern Spontaneous Creative

"First Day of Work"

SciFi, Fantasy, and Me

Why am I this way?

Artificial General Luck

We may never even notice the waking.

The Marketplace of Things

Mendacity

Socos Academy: Issues in AI

Socos Academy: Retrain the Brain

Socos Academy: A bit different…

Socos Academy: Reinvent Invention

Socos Academy: If kids were bonds…

Socos Academy: Gender

Socos Academy: Kant vs Hobbes

Socos Academy: Are We Rational?

Socos Academy: Future of Work

Socos Academy: Cyborgs

Socos Academy: Messy Society

Socos Academy: Technology & Thought

Socos Academy: Can GPS Cause Dementia?

Socos Academy: Top 10 Musings of a Mad Scientist from 2021

Socos Academy: Oct. 2021

Happy October, Socos Academy! Huge thanks to all who have switched over to our paid memberships since the announcements last month. Here’s what’s going on soon… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October Talks & Keynotes Indeed: Tuesday morning, Dr. Ming participated in a fireside chat for Senior Directors and VPs at Indeed [https:

I'm Turning My Son Into a Cyborg

East Coast Swing

What do you do when you can see that people need help, but you’ve promised to do nothing?

Socos Academy: Sept. 2021

As we approach the end of summer, so do we approach another exciting milestone for Socos Academy...

Jitterbug

Hack Diabetes. Commit crimes. Eat Goose.

Superpowers

I impersonated a cyborg at the White House. The Secret Service freaked out and gave me the opportunity to tell the president about inventing a superpower.

Remote Work: One Year Later

Diversity-Innovation Paradox

How Not to Get a Job

Mad Science: Mental Health Meets Machine Learning

Innovating Innovation

Distributed Culture

Socos Academy: Remote

Book Vivienne (Virtually)! "@salesforcejobs just hosted a wonderful conversation with Dr. Vivienne Ming of @SocosLabs. The power of #AI in predicting success and productivity is boundless!" Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with a diverse range of organizations around the world through COVID-19. Her talks cover everything from the science of

Remote Work

Business as usual, but People Are Different

The Crimson Permanent Assurance Gets Upskilled

Deprofessionalization

Socos Academy: Not the IR

Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with a diverse range of organizations around the world through COVID-19. Her talks cover everything from the science of long-term stress to data science for D&I, creating AI superpowers for kids to leveraging AI as a tool to understand the impact of policy. Whether

This Is Not the Industrial Revolution

And it’s not just pompous jackasses like the not-so-strawman above. I have read 116 policy papers on the future of work... They are all wrong.

Socos Academy: One GPU, One Vote

Though most large events and gatherings have been cancelled due to COVID-19, Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with companies and organizations around the world. These briefings have covered Vivienne's research in AI, data science, HR, and innovation, but have also addressed the impact of Covid-19 on business and culture. These

One GPU, One Vote

AI needs a constitution

Socos Academy: The Index

Get a taste for Vivienne’s kooky style and dynamic stage presence in our keynotes reel! As many of you know, most large events and gatherings have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Vivienne has continued consulting remotely with companies and organizations around the world. These briefings have

Socos Academy: Joe vs Jose

What We're Reading Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups [https://www.pnas.org/content/116/41/20556], PNAS, 2019 Using Causal Reasoning To Guide Algorithms Toward a Fairer World [https://ai.shorensteincenter.org/ideas/2019/4/3/using-causal-reasoning-to-guide-algorithms-toward-a-fairer-world] , The Ethical Machine, 2020 Individual differences in trust evaluations

The Inclusion Impact Index

The inclusion Impact Index tracks good things

Socos Academy: "Represent!"

A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0815-z], Nature, 2020 Evidence of bias against girls and women in contexts that emphasize intellectual ability [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-62311-015], American Psychologist, 2018 Active learning narrows achievement gaps for

Joe vs José

What does it cost to be different?

Covid-19

A few months ago the entire world boarded a trolley and we didn’t even notice. Within a month, it became obvious (to most) that if we didn’t change tracks, millions would die. Yet hidden along our new line are millions of other lives.

Socos Academy: Covid-19

We Can Safely Restart the Economy in June. Here’s How. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html], New York Times (2020) Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of Last Resort [http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/coronavirus.pdf], Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (2020) Substantial undocumented infection

Represent!

Socos Academy: Sexyface

Upcoming As many of you know, most large events and gatherings have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Vivienne has been remotely consulting with organizations and Chief Executives on how data science should be used to shed new light on the spread and impact of COVID and similar

Sexyface

Socos Academy: Neuroprosthetics

Malcolm Gladwell, Sir Ken, and some weirdo. Plus, the closing keynote at Grace Hooper!

The Long Caravan

I'm having rather a lot of fun, here.