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Teamwork: Small Teams Shine at Collaboration and Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

Small teams are more effective, based on numerous studies by psychologists. Smaller teams enable better accountability, flexibility, and trust amoung team members. Large teams are often overconfident and ultimately underperform. Large teams are notorious for having issues with communication and…

AI and the Law: Driving New Regulations and Changing the Legal Profession

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is upending the legal system. On the one hand is the big question about how courts will be able to regulate and make judgements about many aspects of our lives that are being transformed by AI. The focus…

Artificial Intelligence: AI Speeds the Identification of New Exoplanets

By Dick Weisinger

We know about eight or possibly nine planets in our solar system orbiting our Sun. Planets outside the solar system that orbit around other stars are called exoplanets. Astrophysicists have been on a search to identify exoplanets, looking for planets…

Open Source Chip Design: Lowering the Cost, but Chip Production Remains Expensive

By Dick Weisinger

The recent history of computer chips has seen the market dominated by very large market players that have invested large amounts of cash to produce ultra-miniature and highly complex semiconductors. Those industry players aren’t expected to change much in the…

Artificial Intelligence: The Virtuous Cycle of Human and Machine

By Dick Weisinger

AI stands for ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Many worry what the ultimate consequences of advanced AI. AI has also been criticized and called ‘Artificial Ignorance’ because of the many examples that have emerged where harmful biases have been identified in the resulting…