Regina Joseph, NYU, presentation on Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series, March 24, 2016.

1. COGNITIVE COMPUTING:
A FUTURE PATHWAY FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS STUDENTS
MARCH 2016
REGINA JOSEPH
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS
&

2. GLOBAL AFFAIRS: THE CHALLENGE TO PEDAGOGY & REACH
A POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
EMBED COGNITIVE COMPUTING TRAINING AS AN INTEGRAL
COMPONENT OF TEACHING INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

3. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS: NOW MORE THAN EVER
20TH CENTURY SPUTNIK LEADS TO TITLE VIII FUNDING21ST CENTURY SPUTNIK ARISES AS TITLE VIII FUNDING IS SLASHED

4. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS: NOW MORE THAN EVER

5. THE REALITIES OF THE 21st CENTURY LANDSCAPE:
CHALLENGES OF THE ZETTABYTE AGE
1.8 BILLION
active social media users globally
6.5 BILLION
mobile phone subscribers
2 MILLION
Google searches
571
websites launched
100,000
“Tweets”
34,220
“Likes”
72
hours of new video
200 MILLION
emails
3600
new images
THE 4 “V”S:
VOLUME
VELOCITY
VARIETY
VERACITY

6. THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: HOW WE TEACH IR
BUT 21st CENTURY REALITIES (DUE TO TECHNICAL CHANGES IN NEWS DISTRIBUTION AND
CONSUMPTION & EDUCATION) REQUIRE DEEP EXPERTISE COMBINED W/ BROAD & SHALLOWER
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Specialist
CURRENT EDUCATION PROMOTES AND REWARDS NICHED EXPERTISE

7. GLOBAL AFFAIRS: THE CHALLENGE TO PEDAGOGY & REACH

8. DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE IR
Philip Tetlock and Barbara
Mellers
FORECASTING TOURNAMENTS
ARE DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES. THEY ARE
PRAGMATIC AND PURE TESTS
OF ACCURACY, AND THUS AVOID
THE PITFALLS OF IDEOLOGY
AND PRECONCEPTIONS. THEY
TEND TO REWARD BROAD
UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS
ACTIVE OPEN-MINDED
THINKING
THEY CAN ALSO SERVE AS
COST EFFECTIVE VEHICLES TO
ENGAGE MILLENNIALS. BY
FAVORING PARTICIPANTS WHO
DEVELOP OPTIMAL USE OF
OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION,
THEY CAN IMPROVE THE DEPTH
OF PARTICIPANTS’ KNOWLEDGE

9. THANK YOU
RJ652@NYU.EDU
RJ@SIBYLINK.COM