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(PDF) Crossing Disciplines and Perspectives: Challenging Norms in ... academia.edu 3 facts
accountCableco, a cable manufacturing factory in Silicon Valley, California, began offering English language literacy classes to immigrant employees in the mid-1990s. These classes were intended to help employees acquire English skills that supervisors perceived as crucial for efficient work operations and sound business management.
accountCableco, a cable manufacturing plant in Silicon Valley, began workplace literacy classes in the mid-1990s to help immigrant employees gain English skills perceived by managers as crucial for smooth work flow and business operations.
claimThe study of workplace literacy programs at Cableco, a cable manufacturing factory in Silicon Valley, California, demonstrates that conceiving of language as a discrete workplace skill can be dangerous. The study illustrates how discursive practices can create unequal institutional power relations while simultaneously providing a small space for workers to contest management's attempts to reshape their identities through language.
Read This Story to Learn How Behavioral Economics Can Improve ... ama.org Dec 1, 2018 2 facts
referenceDaniel Kahneman taught Silicon Valley executives about 'priming,' which he described as a crucial area of behavioral economics research, such as flashing a smiley face on a screen faster than the human eye can detect to influence mood or behavior.
referenceDaniel Kahneman taught Silicon Valley executives about 'priming,' which he described as a crucial area of behavioral economics research, citing the example of flashing a smiley face on a user's screen faster than the human eye can detect to influence mood or behavior.
Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org Jul 1, 2025 1 fact
claimLarge Language Models (LLMs) can simulate different discursive communities by adopting specific rhetorical styles, such as the optimism and innovation rhetoric of a Silicon Valley startup or the caution and public accountability of a governmental regulatory voice.
How China is responding to escalating strategic competition with the ... brookings.edu Mar 1, 2021 1 fact
claimChina's technology incubation strategies include maintaining a closed domestic market, providing massive subsidies for domestic national champions, aggressively acquiring intellectual property, making strategic investments in firms in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, and utilizing cyber and other means of industrial espionage.
Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community ... arxiv.org Feb 5, 2026 1 fact
referenceThe paper 'Reading elinor ostrom in silicon valley: exploring institutional diversity on the internet' was published in the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ’16), pages 363–368.
European Union | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Jan 2, 2026 1 fact
claimGunst and De Ville argue that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has exerted a 'Brussels effect' by influencing regulatory standards in Silicon Valley.
Cybernetics 2.0 - Springer Nature link.springer.com 1 fact
claimBernard Widrow was inducted into the US National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 1999.
Open-source software - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDespite the ability to collaborate internationally, open source software contributors are primarily located in large geographic clusters, such as Silicon Valley, where they largely collaborate within their own groups.