Are you taking on a position as a lecturer soon? Would you like to teach in a university of applied sciences? Have you been wondering about how to collaborate with industry and how to enable an exchange with your students in your lectures? Then this book launch might be very insightful for you. Our Motivation As professors at an applied university, we have been trying to...

Yuval Noah Harari is certainly one the authors that has most attracted my attention in recent times. I first was aware of his work years ago through a recommendation of a friend. Days later I ordered one of this publications and quickly became an immense fan of his work. Since then, I have recurrently recommended his books to my students, modified my consumer behavior class...

David Cope is a genius. Born in 1941 in San Francisco (USA), he developed an extraordinary career as a musician, researcher, composer, author, software engineer and lecturer at USCS (University of California, Santa Cruz). Furthermore, in my view, David Cope is the greatest contributor to the advancement of artificially composed music. All companies and researchers that currently...

Artificial creativity is an exciting and timely topic. It is currently being studies by academics from various areas, such as marketing, computer science, psychology, design, finance, medicine and many more. The applications of artificial creativity rage from music, to the stock market, product development, literature, and even education. Here, I present a selection of publications...

“We live in a world of relentless change. Huge migrations of people to new mega-cities filling soaring skyscrapers and vast slums, ravenous appetites for fuel and food, unpredictable climate change… and all this in a world where the population is still growing. Should we be worried, should we be scared, and how to make sense of it all?“ With these exact words Hans...