Idea Lab

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The VUB AI-lab team is mainly interested in the two loosely linked aspects of on-board control and heterogeneity. One major effort for forstering both aspects within RoboCup’s small robots league is our development of a so-to-say robot constructionkit, allowing to implement a wide range of players with onboard control. For the ’99 competition, the existing RoboCube controller-hardware has been ...

Architecture Reference Lab des SOA Innovation Lab

Service-orientierte Software-Architekturen wachsen gegenwärtig mit Architekturen für Cloud Computing zusammen. Neue Software-Architekturen sind die strukturelle Basis für zukunftsweisende IT-Unternehmensarchitekturen und zugehörige leistungsstarke Informationssysteme. Das ARL Architecture Reference Lab des SOA Innovation Lab und der Hochschule Reutlingen erforscht in einem deutschlandweit ausge...

Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

I a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem—ideas—and then select a few for further development. We examine the effectiveness of two group structures for such tasks—the team structure, in which the group works together in time and space, and the hybrid structure, in which individuals first work independently and then work together. We define ...

Module: Idea Evaluation ________________________________ 1 Idea Evaluation Methods and Techniques

What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power

A key to understanding why School is what it is lies in recognizing a systematic tendency to deform ideas in specific ways in order to make them fit into a pedagogical framework. One of these deformations is described here as " disempowering ideas. " The insight leads to a new direction for innovation in education: re-empowering the disempowered ideas. Doing so is not easy: it needs a new epist...