Care to try your hand at a $1 million Zillow prize to improve Zestimate? The competition will be one of the largest to be held on Kaggle (Anthony Goldbloom, San Francisco, Dec 2018 and Dec 2013).

The new tragedy of the commons: Tech companies are overgrazing AI professors, thinning their ranks. Who will educate the next generation of computer scientists, data scientists, and programmers? (Erin Dolan, Austin, Feb 2016; Anant Agarwal, Jersey City, Oct 2013)

Japanese workers are the most sleep-deprived in the world. We’re not helping matters by holding a breakfast meeting in Tokyo later this month. Paul Dumouchel, of Ritsumeikan University and the Université du Québec à Montréal will talk about how we need to rethink the nature of emotion if we want robots to understand humans and serve as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Join us at the Westin Tokyo on January 24, 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 

From hot soup in Tokyo to hotter temperatures in Singapore; from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge; from the city that begs you to suspend your disbelief (Los Angeles) to the one that forces you to do so (Washington, DC), we dove deep in the art of the possible. And we could never have done it without you. Thank you to each member of the TTIV community for a wonderful 2018.