Jerome Swartz
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Devoted to Distraction
Josie Glausiusz, Psychology Today, March/April, 2009
Psychologist Jonathan Schooler (University of California, Santa Barbara) references
inventor Jerry Swartz and his technique of using index cards for writing down ideas
that occur to him while daydreaming.
“Those who pay attention to their daydreams, however, are especially likely to
harvest creative insights from their reveries, Schooler has discovered. He
points to Jerry Swartz, the inventor of the first hand-held barcode laser scanner,
WiFi, and the first commercial wearable computer. Swartz always carries index
cards so that if an idea occurs to him while daydreaming, he can write it down
before he forgets it – a habit worth imitating. ‘If a great idea pops into your mind
and you doidn’t notice it, what good is it?’ Schooler asks. ‘You need to daydream,
but you also need to take stock of the content of your daydreams; otherwise,
you could have a creative thought and never notice it.’”
Pop Thinking
An interview with Jerome Swartz
Carol Richards, Stony Brook University, The Brook, Fall 2008, Volume 7, No. 2.
What actually happens in the brain when an idea suddenly “pops up”? Jerome Swartz,
Symbol Technologies founder and Stony Brook Foundation Trustee, is subjecting the
phenomenon to serious research.
Presentations
Towards a Quantitative Framework for Sudden-Insight Problem Solving and
the Feeling of "Aha!"
Presented at Dynamical Neuroscience XV symposium,
Washington, D.C., November, 2008:
http://www.theswartzfoundation.org/dynamical-neuro.asp
View the poster:
http://www.theswartzfoundation.org/docs/Towards-a-Quantitative-Framework-poster.pdf
Cognitive Computing 2007 – Presentation and panel chair remarks: View a video
of the panel and presentation:
http://media.citris.berkeley.edu/Cognitive_Computing07_Jerome_Swartz 2007 Banbury Conference - Presentation slides: The Conscious-‘pop’: A Nonconscious
Processing Framework for Problem Solving (1.8Mb, .pdf)
10th Annual Stony Brook Mind-Brain Public Lecture (2006) – Introduction:
View the streaming video with an introduction by Dr. Jerome Swartz (Windows
Media Player required)
IBM Cognitive Computing 06: - Download a video of Dr. Jerome Swartz'
presentation (.avi format, 41Mb)
2006 Banbury Conference - Presentation slides: Large Scale Brain
Modeling - JSwartz-Banbury-April-2006.pdf (253 Kb)
Symbol Technologies Conference Presentation, January, 2000.
View the streaming video:
http://wm9-streaming.soundfront.com/swartz/WWSPC2000.wmv
Patents
View a list of Jerry Swartz’ issued U.S. patents: Jerry-Swartz-patents-7-9-07.xls
