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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: What the Researchers Say

Associations Now

Stanford’s study represented the first in-depth analysis of diversity in AI, and the picture was not good: Eight out of 10 AI professors from major schools are male, it reported. And as the San Francisco Chronicle recently noted, a major AI conference had to change its name this year because its acronym was considered sexist.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.17.20

Reid All About it

Billhighway describes how to prevent several chapter website disaster scenarios. This pasta al limone from Bon Appetit reminds me of a dish I had for lunch one day in a restaurant in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Join us for a conversation about how we can make small changes to create big shifts in how we work.

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Doctors Don’t Deliver Alzheimer’s Diagnosis to Half of Their Patients, Report Says

Associations Now

An analysis of Medicare records and surveys found that doctors struggle to deliver an Alzheimer’s diagnosis to patients and their caregivers—less than half received the tough news. a neurologist and director off the Ray Dolby Brain Health Center, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Following Sexual Harassment Scandal, Science Moves Forward

Associations Now

Among them is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which last week endorsed a statement that offered its members best practices on how to handle sexual harassment within the scope of AAPA’s leadership structure.

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Too Many Meeting Professionals Are Bored With Work

Velvet Chainsaw

Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California, San Francisco, studied monkeys and skill development. We don’t think about doing that skill anymore or how to do it differently. He put food pellets in large cups outside of their cages. The monkeys would reach through the bars to grasp the pellets and then eat them.

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Survey Reveals Top Community Association Manager Challenges

AvidXchange: Association Management

I don’t know that there’s a good answer for how to handle this. I need to respond to an email about how to get a key fob or a gate key or, or something like that.” She went to work for a management company in San Francisco where I also used to live. It’s likely not just affecting that one service provider.

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Association Subculture: Words Make Worlds - Part 1 - Association.

Association Subculture

” We waste precious time on comprehending various management fads or how to apply concepts like “balanced scorecards” and other corporate tools to our environment. Sociologists have developed a canon of information on how societies form and evolve. Associations are literally societies within society.