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Thinking Machines: Can There Be? Are We?

Artificial intelligence researchers predict that _thinking machines_ will take over our mental work, just as their mechanical predecessors were intended to eliminate physical drudgery. Critics have argued with equal fervor that _thinking machine_ is a contradiction in terms. Computers, with their foundations of cold logic, can never be creative or insightful or possess real judgment. Although m...

When Can We Test Less?1

When it is impractical to rigorously assess all parts of complex systems, test engineers use defect detectors to focus their limited resources. In this article, we define some properties of an ideal defect detector and assess different methods of generating one. In the case study presented here, traditional methods of generating such detectors (e.g. reusing detectors from the literature, linear...

Design Thinking: Can Creativity Be Taught?

This paper contributes to the current interest in design thinking as superior to cognitive and analytical thinking for solution generation, suggesting ways that this epistemological shift can be introduced in education, specifically as the Design Charrette. This paper explores the adaptation of a traditional studio technique in architecture – the Design Charrette – to teaching. The Design Charr...

Strategic Thinking: Can it be Taught?

B ASHING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC planning has become the favoured past-time of leading business authors on both sides of the Atlantic. The litany of indictments against the types of planning processes in place at most large multinational firms is long, and often difficult to disagree with. Traditional processes have choked initiative and favoured incremental over substantive change....

Can We Be Too Careful?