*Please distribute to others who may be interested...* You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO) and theGlobal Brain Institute<http://www.globalbraininstitute.org/>(GBI).
*Time*:* Friday, May 3rd, *14:00-16:00 p.m *Place*: *Room 3B217 * (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! ------------------------------ *Structure for Collective Learning Organizations and Connected Collaboration - Fast and Upscalable Construction Set for the Connection Society Jaap van Till* (Ir. J.W. Jaap van Till prof. emeritus network infrastructures; chief scientist Tildro Research B.V., NL) Abstract: There are an estimated 6 billion cellphones and smartphones in use worldwide and about 3 billion people have fixed or mobile Interent access. This results in a massive amount of connections between people which has an impact on their life and work and the power they can summon together to get things organized and done. This baffles traditional business types and politicians who notice that their vertically layered closed hierarchies can no longer cope with complex environments and are outpaced and outsmarted by online P2P horizontally interconnected groups of people, who co-create and learn together. Open organizations with high quality external co The research question this lecture tries to help answer is: "How are such wired groups structured and how can they function as one fast responding organism which can scale up without central coordination and without central leadership?" After the urgency for horizontalized organization and value chains is shown as one of the key to come out of the economic crisis, the key ingredients for the line of thought are found in nature. All 'Living Systems' , including humans and groups of humans, can be described as functioning using 20 vital subsystems handling material, energy and information. Recent discoveries in analysis of how the human brain may work based for a big part on MRI scanning measurements and neurobiology & neuropsychology show that handling *Patterns* and matching those with memory and expectations is basic. You can look with your probably imperfect eyes but you see with the lenses in your brain. You can listen with your ears but you hear with your brain and combine your thinking with other information patterns there. These recent findings can be transposed on brain-like structures of connected people using the Telescope Metaphor which can be extended into a structure which processes images in parallel based on orthogonal transforms. This is pre-correlation which simplifies matching. This caters for the fact that with such* Lens* - holography like structures everybody can see the whole picture and can contribute to improvement of it and by combining and synergy, help to develop emergent models for decentral consensus, vision & knowledge sharing, constructive solutions and actions. Maybe we will find that swarms of bees and colonies of billions of bacteria have used since millions of years the same connection structures to organize collective intelligent collaboration, so why don't we do that too using telecom- and computer networks? This recently started research, which has combined a number of well known scientific findings, has important consequences for effective and more flexible organizations, new internet social media services and new political structures connecting independent people& groups and the institutions needed in the networked civil society and post-transition co-creative economies. Not only can such connected group *Weavelet *react very fast to unexpected situations, it is resilient to failing nodes and links and it can learn and cope with imperfections, incompleteness. To paraphrase an ancient philosopher: "So outside, so inside the human brain: the connections are the message". Bibliography: Books: * James Grier Miller, (1978). *Living systems.* New York: McGraw-Hill<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGraw-Hill> . ISBN 0-87081-363-3<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0870813633>, also see Wikipedia about him. * Dean Gengle; "*The Netweaver's Sourcebook*" 1984. * Carlota Perez. "*Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages*." London: Elgar 2002. (ISBN 1-84376-331-1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1843763311>) * Karl H. Pribram; "*Holonomy and Structure in the Organization of Perception.’’ In: John M Nicholas (Hrsg.):* Images, Perception, and Knowledge.’’ 1977, S. 155–185. * Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee; "On Intelligence" * Jaques Kemp, Andreas Schotter and Morgen Witzer; "Management Frameworks: Aligning Stategic Thinking and Execution" ; 2012 * Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen; "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business" (April 25 2013) Further links: About the origin of the Lens metaphor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page About the Living Systems theory : www.panarchy.org/*miller*/*livingsystems* .html About Brain connectivity research: Ray Kurzweil (now at Google Research) see book reviews: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/1469203847 About orthogonal spatial image transforms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%E2%80%93Tukey_FFT_algorithm About convolution and cross-correlation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-correlation The speaker: Jaap van Till; also known as: ir. J.W. Jaap baron van Till, prof. emeritus computer network infrastructures and social media: is chief scientist of Tildro Research B.V. in the Netherlands. He is active as a network architect in leading edge corporate- and public telecom networks for FttH and mobile internet access. Jaap graduated at the Delft University in information theory and pattern recognition. He worked as electronics engineer instrumentation, computer- and telecommunication at the AKZO Research laboratories and companies in Europe. Later he worked at James Martin Associates and became partner at Stratix Consultants BV as networks architect for large company networks for multinational businesses and gov. ministries. He helped for instance to design and implement the very broadband (now with 40 Gbps fiber optic links) National Research and Education Network (NREN) of SURFnet in the Netherlands, from where students get 100/100 Mbps internet access in their rooms. He was part time professor "company networks and Internet" at the Delft University and part time professor telecommunication technology at the HAN University of technology in Arnhem. Jaap is a frequent lecturer and visiting professor at universities or business schools in France, Indonesia, Lithuania, Belgium and the Netherlands. His main subject of research is economic, organizational and social effects of social media and internet. His mail adress is: vantill (at) gmail and blogsite: http://TheConnectivist.wordpress.com/<http://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/> ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* *Summer 2013* * ** May 10 *Sharon Ackerman (TU, Delft) Embedding the Evolutionary Potential of Complex Adaptive Systems into the Structure of Urban Fabric <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/202> * May 17 *Francis Heylighen (GBI,VUB) Foundations for a Mathematical Model of the Global Brain * May 24 *Evo Busseniers (GBI VUB) Simulating the Global Brain with MATLAB * May 27 (Monday) *Clement Vidal <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com>(GBI,VUB) TBD <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com> * May 31 *Marko Rodriguez <http://markorodriguez.com/> Faunus: Cluster-Oriented Graph Analytics * June 7 *David Garcia Collective Emotions in the Internet Society * June 14 *Pierpaolo Andriani Modular Exaptation - Research policy <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/203> * June 21 *Wolfgang Hofkirchner Global consciousness – the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society * June 28 *Clement Vidal <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com>(GBI,VUB) Distributing Cognition: from Local Brains to the Global Brain <http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com> * July 5 * *NO SEMINAR * *July 12 *Marie-Lise Schläppy <[email protected]> (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne) Are all gifted people also highly sensitive? <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/204> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum
