iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak about “The Importance of Pairwork in Interdisciplinary and Educational Initiatives” at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference tomorrow, Monday, 19 October 2009, in the session M2F Promoting Engineering Student Success from 10-11:30 am in La Vista.  The powerpoint for the presentation is available in the viewer below

or at www.slideshare.net/deg511, and a pdf version of the paper is available on the FIE website here.

Module 14 from Creative Modeling for Tech Vision covers more on little models.

Well-deserved congratulations to iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg for receiving the 2010 Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. This award will be presented at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in July 2010, in Barcelona, Spain.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg just presented a talk at SPT 2009, the 2009 Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.  The powerpoint stack from that talk is available in the viewer below:

NUS visitors wishing to view the talk on The Missing Basics by David E. Goldberg can do so in the viewer below

or they may view it on the iFoundry slideshare page (here).  iFoundry YouTube videos are available here and other presentations by Professor Goldberg are available on the slideshare page here.

iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak at the National University of Singapore on Monday, 29 June 2009 at 3pm in LT1, FoE on What Engineers Don’t Learn and Why They Don’t Learn It. Download a full seminar announcement here.

A companion to the presentation “What is Creativity” by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg (original post here) appears below

or on his slideshare website (here).

One of iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg’s most popular slide decks is the presentation What is Creativity? with over 4500 views on slideshare.  Watch the presentation below

or on slideshare here.

Pairwork, teamwork performed by teams of two, has been an important ingredient to iFoundry and its precursors.  A preprint of a paper by iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg accepted for publication at the 2009 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference to be held in San Antonio, The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives, is available at PhilSci archives here.

On Wednesday, 6 May 2009, iFoundry held a year-end event to mark its first eight months in business.  The event was introduced by Associate Dean Chuck Tucker, and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg made remarks entitled “iFoundry as Connecting Dots, Changing Minds,  and Teaching the Missing Basics.”  Those remarks can be downloaded as a pdf file here.