Making WPE with philosophy

The 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007) has issued its call for papers here. The workshop will be held at TUDelft, October 29-31, 2007 (Monday-Wednesday). Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) are due 17 August 2007.

Module 2 for Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries Online

Module 2, What is Creativity?, is available for viewing in powerpoint form below. This module discusses different definitions and theories of creativity.

What is Creativity? from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

See the course web site here. Other ppts are available at my slideshare account here.

A Billion Bits or Bust

Kumara Sastry and I will be giving the presentation A Billion Bits or Bust at the NCSA industrial partners meeting in about half and hour.

A Billion Bits or Bust from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Here is the ppt slideshow in for your viewing enjoyment.

ShareThis 3rd AbbeGirl video is up

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Engineering losing global battle

According to Orthstar CEO, James Orsillo, in the Elmira, NY Star-Gazette here.

Pride, passion & joy of engineering

The long version of this talk (The Joy of Engineering) is one of my favorites to give and it is usually well received. It starts with two historical inversions (with science & business) that place engineers in secondary roles when, in fact, engineering has been key innovation force throughout human history.

The Pride, Passion & Joy of Engineering from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Scroll through these slides and let me know what you think.

Ycombinator bootcamp for young ventures

Here's a bootcamp for venture companies called Ycombinator. Sounds like the right way to go for very early stage ventures.

Genetic algorithm course intro lecture available

The introductory lecture from my course Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning is presented in ppt viewer below. The course web site is available here.

Genetic algorithms in search, optimization, and machine learning from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

See the full syllabus here.

Design of Innovation intro in ppt viewer

The introductory module of a short course The Design of Innovation is available below in a slideshare viewer:

Design of Innovation: Innovation & Genetic Algorithms from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education

Look at course web site (here) or the google book web site (here) for further information.

Engineering for the 21st century

The powerpoint slides for the opening lecture to my course on The Entrepreneurial Engineer has been uploaded to www.slideshare.net/deg511 and is available below for viewing. The course site is here, and the book site is here.

Engineering for the 21st Century from David E. Goldberg Transforming Higher Education