{"id":64916,"date":"2018-10-17T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=64916"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:30:22","slug":"mit-plans-1b-computing-college-ai-research-effort-paterson-alexa-sessions-you-wont-want-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/10\/17\/mit-plans-1b-computing-college-ai-research-effort-paterson-alexa-sessions-you-wont-want-to-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT plans $1B computing college, AI research effort [Paterson]; + &#8220;Alexa Sessions You Won\u2019t Want to Miss&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/mit-plans-1b-computing-college-ai-research-effort\/539761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MIT plans $1B computing college, AI research effort<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educationdive.com by James Paterson<\/p>\n<p class=\"standard-heading\"><strong>Dive Brief <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>(emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is creating a College of Computing<\/a>\u00a0with the help of a $350 million gift from billionaire investor Stephen A. Schwarzman, who is the CEO and co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>in a move the university said is its &#8220;most significant reshaping&#8221;\u00a0since 1950.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Featuring 50 new faculty positions and a new headquarters building, the $1 billion interdisciplinary initiative will bring together computer science, artificial intelligence (AI),\u00a0data science and related programs<\/span><\/strong> across the institution. MIT will establish a new deanship for the college.<\/li>\n<li>The new college&#8230;will explore and promote AI&#8217;s use in non-technology disciplines with a focus on <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">ethical considerations, which are a growing concern<\/span> <\/strong>as the technology becomes embedded in many fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/blogs\/alexa\/post\/77eed6f6-b755-47f0-8395-781e9ba5cf95\/alexa-sessions-you-won-t-want-to-miss-at-aws-re-invent-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexa Sessions You Won\u2019t Want to Miss at AWS re:Invent 2018<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; from developer.amazon.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Excerpts &#8212; with an eye towards where this might be leading in terms of learning spaces:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexa and AWS IoT<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Voice is a natural interface to interact not just with the world around us, but also with physical assets and things, such as connected home devices, including lights, thermostats, or TVs. Learn how you can connect and control devices in your home using the AWS IoT platform and Alexa Skills Kit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect Any Device to Alexa and Control Any Feature with the Updated Smart Home Skill API\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Learn about the latest update to the Smart Home Skill API, featuring new capability interfaces you can use as building blocks to connect any device to Alexa, including those that fall outside of the traditional smart home categories of lighting, locks, thermostats, sensors, cameras, and audio\/video gear. Start learning about how you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/alexa\/connected-devices\/build\">create a smarter home with Alexa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop: Build an Alexa Skill with Multiple Models<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Learn how to build an Alexa skill that utilizes multiple interaction models and combines functionality into a single skill. Build an Alexa smart home skill from scratch that implements both custom interactions and smart home functionality within a single skill. Check out these resources to start learning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/blogs\/alexa\/post\/2ccbb04d-47c0-41c8-92fe-feb581deb676\/understanding-the-updated-smart-home-skill-api-preview\">Understanding the Updated Smart Home Skill API (Preview)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/docs\/smarthome\/develop-smart-home-skills-in-multiple-languages.html\">Develop Smart Home Skills for Multiple Languages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.amazon.com\/blogs\/alexa\/post\/acf7689b-f118-469e-b452-0c4da8d3e61a\/new-alexa-smart-home-developer-tools-enable-seamless-voice-control-of-any-device-and-any-feature\">New Alexa Smart Home Developer Tools Enable Seamless Voice Control of Any Device and Any Feature<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT plans $1B computing college, AI research effort &#8212; from educationdive.com by James Paterson Dive Brief (emphasis DSC): The Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u00a0is creating a College of Computing\u00a0with the help of a $350 million gift from billionaire investor Stephen A. Schwarzman, who is the CEO and co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,556,435,356,286,210,403,37,35,3,391,55,87,353,821,217,83,84,460,195,321,214,367,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-amazon","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-digital-learning","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-internet","category-learning-spaces","category-moralsvalues","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-research","category-science","category-smart-classrooms","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64922,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64916\/revisions\/64922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}