Developing complex software products is a team effort, that requires intense collaboration between developers and their stakeholders. Software development processes such as waterfall, V-model, incremental development and agile have been created to build these systems, sometimes unsuccessfully. Due to the shortcomings of the waterfall process to deal with the uncertainty…

Earlier this year, I attended a Technology, Mind and Society conference hosted by the American Psychologists Association: https://pages.apa.org/tms/. In one of the sessions, presenters from different countries discussed ground breaking research in the use of robotic assistants to help elderly citizens in assisted living facilities and hospitals cope with dementia…

The Power of Board Games When I was young my brothers and sisters and I would pass our free time playing board games. Our favorites were Clue, Sorry!, Monopoly, Connect 4, Checkers, Poker, and other games we picked up at yard sales like Operation, Jenga, and a mouse trap game…