The Importance of Go

In amongst the constant flood of public relations releases from the futurists, the technologists and the academic supporters arguing that artificial intelligence in machines is just around the corner and inevitable, it was very refreshing to read an article "No go for computers" by Ben MacIntyre of the London Times in which he shoots this myth in the foot at least for the time being. He points out that despite all attempts to develop a programmed perfect play for the Chinese game of GO, a competent teenager can still beat the most sophisticated computer with ease.The best computer Go software only manages to reach consistently the intermediary single range 10 level. Many humans have achieve this level by studying and playing regularly for less than one year. A top level professional player is some who reaches 30. Generally acknowledged as the oldest game in the world, the first records of GO can be traced back to 2300BC when a Chinese Emperor designed it for his son supposedly of limited intellect to teach him discipline, concentration, and balance. It spread

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The Evolution of Creative Skills

UX Magazine is an-on-line journal devoted to the emerging field of user experience design. Whilst its content is aimed primarily at the marketing services industry, it contains some interesting articles in the area of customer experience and design. The article entitled Creativity 2. particularly caught my eye. The%20Four%20Parts%20of%20the%20Brain%20of%20Creativity%202E.pngThe author argues that the creative worker in marketing services now has to offer more than a single specialist skill such as copywriting or graphic design. These skills, talents and abilities are needed; no doubt about it. But what's also needed is the evolution of them; the next iteration. But what does this look like? An Information Architect who completely grasps Human Computer Interaction but can also think fluidly can do thing

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The Innovise Guys and the Power of Creative Podcasting

The Innovise Guys are Gregg Fraley, a fellow Board Member of mine on the US Creative Education Foundation, a market researcher and author in his own right and Doug Stevenson, an advertising copywriter and seasoned improv performer from one of Chicago's leading improv companies. Both are innovation faciliators in their own rights so they know the field. The Innovise Guys stumbled onto a formula for gathering and publishing complex ideas quickly about creative leadership, creativity and innovation and creativity in the business world through simple podcasting technology. This experiment found its feet internationally when it was picked up and distributed by iTunes in March 2006. They devoted each podcast to one global thought leader who was given an opportunity to roam freely around their topic of specialisation. I was fortunate enough to see the genesis of the Innovise Guys and to be interviewed by them in their first 12 months of this highly successful Web 2.0 experiment. 18 months on and they have built an international credibility as well as a wonderful library of podcasts that are beautifully indexed and available for downloading.

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A Philosophy of Leadership for 21st Century

"Inspiring Leadership" is a 20 part Canadian public radio series created and produced by Don Hill, a former CBC journalist in association with the Banff Centre Leadership Development Programme. This first programme, 30 minutes in length, provides a snapshot for a philosophy of leadership in the 21st Century. It contains a series of excellent interviews with the likes of Leroy Little Bear, former Executive Director, Native Studies Harvard; Dr Harold Nelson Founder, the Advanced Design Institute and author of the Design Way, Professor Patricia Madsen, Professor of Drama, Stanford University and a Constructive Living Instructor, Colin Funk, Creative Director, the Banff Centre Leadership Development; Michael Chender, Founder, the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership; David Horth, Senior Artist In Training, the Centre for Creative Leadership and President US Creative Education Foundation: Brian Crowley, Founder, the Atlantic Institute for Public Studies and Futurist and Ralph Kerle, CEO, the Creative Leadership Forum.

Listen the podcast of the first programme. The complete set of programmes can be downloaded at CKUA under archived programme titled "Inspiring Leadership"

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