Closing the Scientific Knowledge Gap: Comments

Closing the AI Knowledge Gap

AI researchers employ not only the scientific method, but also methodology from mathematics and engineering. However, the use of the scientific method – specifically hypothesis testing – in AI is typically conducted in service of engineering objectives. Growing interest in topics such as fairness and algorithmic bias show that engineering-focused questions only comprise a subset of the importan...

Closing the Technology Gap? Closing the Technology Gap?

This paper focuses on the dimensions shaping the dynamics of technology. We present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital. The latter two variables contribute to determine the absorptive capacity of a country as well as its innovative ability. Based on ...

Abortion's Impact on Prematurity: Closing the Knowledge Gap.

Closing the Gap: From Nescience to Knowledge Management

Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at supporting knowledge workers in general and software engineers in particular. These tools help to elicit, structure, and retrieve knowledge. However, while KM systems are functional, they are not used in practice as effectively as possible as there is not much incentive for experts to share their expertise: the concrete need for knowledge is unclear as i...

Closing the Generation Gap

I describe recent examples of phase transitions in four-dimensional M theory vacua in which the net generation number changes. There are naive obstructions to transitions lifting chiral matter, but loopholes exist which enable us to avoid them. I first review how chirality arises in the heterotic limit of M theory, previously known forms of topology change in string theory, and chirality-changi...