The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall -Augmented Decision Environments

Augmented Decision Environments*

Dates:
October 15, 2009

Organizer:

Neil Jacobstein

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Description:
This workshop addresses the opportunities and challenges in improving complex decision performance with computing environments designed to enhance decision making. It examines human information processing limitations and cognitive bias, and the software and hardware tools that could be brought to bear systematically to overcome some of these limitations.

What prevents us from marshalling all the relevant knowledge available to solve our most pressing and complex problems? What kinds of decision environments have been built so far, and what metrics characterize their strengths and weaknesses? We will review design criteria for augmentation systems envisioned by Doug Engelbart, Stafford Beer, and Buckminster Fuller. How will the rapid growth of web-based data visualization tools, machine inference, argumentation maps, simulation, and social software such as prediction markets alter the possibility of realizing these visions?

Participants will match available decision technologies with their own complex problem requirements, and consider how these components can be integrated incrementally to improve decision making in industry and government.

Audience: Technologists, industry executives, academics, government administrators, and others interested in continuously improving their own decision environments.

Workshop Fees:
The cost includes all materials, breakfasts, coffee breaks, and snacks.

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**Registration is required**
Open	$895
Media X	$795
Group - 3 or more	$795
Academic, Non-profit	$575
Student (valid ID req.)	$195
The CTO Forum	$300

Individual enrollment: $895.00 USD per person
Team enrollment (3 or more persons): $795.00 USD per person

Registration and Refund Policies:
If there are insufficient registrations received before September 15, 2009, we reserve the right to cancel the workshops and refund your registration fees in full. We will NOT be liable for the cost of travel or hotel reservations. Please contact information for advice on the possibility of cancellation.

Registrations that are cancelled by the registrant before September 15, 2009 will be liable for a $100 processing fee. Registrations canceled on or after September 15, 2009 and before September 30 will be liable to pay a 50% cancellation fee. Registrations canceled on or after September 30, 2009 are liable for the full cost of the workshop. If a replacement participant is sent in your place, the cancellation fees will be reduced to the $100 processing fee to cover the costs of the change.

STAP funds may be used for this workshop.

*Preliminary description. Subject to change.