Robert J. Stern 1 & Taras V. Gerya
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Dear ArtSciLab Students,
Are you passionate about combining creativity, technology, and real-world problem-solving? Here’s a fantastic opportunity tailored to your interests and skills!
Dr Roger Malina recommends joining this class
Course Title: ENTP 4399 – Lean Innovation for Public Service
Instructor: Pavan Kumar
Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consent
Certificate Program: Counts toward the Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This course introduces you to lean innovation methods, adapted from lean manufacturing, to tackle mission-driven challenges in national security and public service. Through hands-on, client-based projects, you’ll develop critical 21st-century skills such as:
- Design thinking
- Team collaboration
- Leadership and initiative-taking
You’ll also gain experience in “lean startup” methodologies, building an invaluable skillset that merges innovation with impact.
Why This Course Is Perfect for You:
For Animation & Games students:
- Learn how lean methodologies can enhance real-time entertainment, educational games, motion graphics, and other cutting-edge digital creations.
For ATEC (Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication) students:
- Explore how the convergence of computer science, engineering, arts, and humanities can address national and global challenges with practical, impactful solutions.
About the Instructor:
Pavan Kumar brings experience and expertise with:
- A mechanical engineering background, adding technical depth to the course.
- A decade of experience running a commercial maker space and a startup incubator, mentoring startups, and launching innovative projects.
- A proven track record teaching lean innovation to diverse audiences.
Get Inspired:
- Learn more about the nationwide Hacking for Defense program supporting this course: H4D Program.
- Discover how UT Dallas students have excelled in similar projects: Management Magazine Article.
Next Steps:
Interested? Email instructor Pavan Kumar (pavan.kumar2@utdallas.edu) for a permission code to enroll in Orion.”
Wish you all a happy creative process ahead
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Introducing ASLIOSA
Art Sci Lab’s
Intelligent
Operating System
Assistant
The ArtSciLab’s Intelligent Operating System Assistant (ASLIOSA) project is a groundbreaking initiative blending the fields of arts, humanities, and artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike traditional AI endeavors, ASLIOSA focuses on exploring deeper ethical and philosophical questions, emphasizing human-centered interaction and creativity.
What is ASLIOSA?
ASLIOSA is not just software or a robot; it is a physical sculpture capable of seeing, listening, speaking, and interacting. Designed to be approachable and welcoming, it serves as a tangible platform for experimenting with AI from an arts and humanities perspective.
The Vision Behind the Project
The project aims to:
- Establish AI grounded in arts and humanities.
- Encourage ethical and philosophical questioning of AI.
- Provide an experimental platform for students and researchers to explore creative AI interactions.
Why It Matters
ASLIOSA represents a shift in how AI can be integrated into our lives—not just as tools but as collaborators in creativity and thought. It asks critical questions: How would humans teach AI? How does AI learn from us? How can arts reshape our perception of technology?
Continue to explore more on ASLIOSA below
ASLIOSA Team:
Founder/Director: Alejandro Garcia
Lead Programmer / NLP: Anagha Ajnadkar
Lead Programmer / Computer Vision: Digvijaysinh Gohil
Ethics / Voice: Yueh-Jung Lee
Sculptor: Kirstin Stevens Schmidt
Sculptor: Shaghayegh Ashouri
Data Scientist: Akshara Athirala
UI/UX Web Dev: Jacob Hunwick
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The Physics of Migration: Edition 5
Book: “Migration Theory: talking across disciplines”
4th edition, Caroline B Bretell and James F Holland. Routledge, New York, 2023 DOI 10.4324/9781003121015
by: Caroline B Bretell and James F Holland
So, I have just finished reading page 156 of this book, the chapter by Philip Martin. The Chapter title is Economic Aspects of Migration
The chapter, as the author admits, is USA centric which is fine. It feeds into my bias that migration to the USA is a good thing. I migrated for the first time to the US for college at MIT in 1968.
My Czech grandparents family migrated to Texas in 1882, then they hated it so much they migrated back to Bohemia in 1918 after the first creation of the Czech Republic. Then the great depressions chased them back to Texas in the 1920s. My father was a forced migrant back to Europe in 1954 and became a political refugee in France, where I was born.
My father accidentally became a millionaire at the same time and switched careers from engineering to arts then publishing. I left France to USA to become a university student.
This is much discussed in this chapter: the lack of convincing correlation between going to college and subsequent career success. Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs went to college.
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.
The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas held a historical dedication and naming ceremony outside the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building on Sept. 28. Learn more about it here.