Design Thinkers Think Like Managers

From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Graph"

To meet the challenge of processing rapidly growing graph and network data created by modern applications, a number of distributed graph processing systems have emerged, such as Pregel and GraphLab. All these systems divide input graphs into partitions, and employ a “think like a vertex” programming model to support iterative graph computation. This vertex-centric model is easy to program and h...

Think Like a Rat

Since 1971 when the results of single electrode recordings of neurons with “place fields” were first documented, scientists have produced an enormous body of research in an attempt to understand these small but significant components of the rat brain. This research has confirmed that after a rat has gained familiarity with a simple test environment, a neuron will respond strongly and selectivel...

Think like a bacterium

Introduction We must, albeit reluctantly, dismiss the naive but comforting myth of the bacterial cell as a simple loner: a self-contained bag of uncompartmentalized enzymes, so exquisitely uncomplicated as to be understood outright and considered passé in this new millennium—a biological beaker for examining the more complicated eukaryotic versions of life. The recent EURESCO Conference on Bact...

Do People Think Like Computers?

Human cognition inspired the earliest algorithms for gameplaying computer programs. However, the studies of human and computer game play quickly diverged: the Artificial Intelligence community focused on theory and techniques to solve games, while behavioral scientists empirically examined simple decision-making in humans. In this paper, we combine concepts and methods from the two fields to in...

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