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Learning is a individual journey of transformation, but teaching is your companion to discovery .

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Not everything that glitters is artificial intelligence..!

Artificial Intelligence starts when an algorithm becomes able to programme and re-programme itself, thus be able to perform tasks for which it was not originally programmed to do or could not be performed with it’s original code. This implies a software which can “experiment” and learn not only to improve it’s performance but also to perform new tasks. An AI algorithm is a piece of software that can demonstrate cognitive skills only shown by living beings. To give you an analogy, let me use one of the first lessons we all learn in early childhood: do not touch a very hot item or you get burned. Now if you want to protect your algorithm from getting burned, you insert in the algorithm: “IF hot, DO NOT Touch”. This is algorithm. But you programme your algorithm to wander around, algorithm touches the stove, gets burned and implements the line in its code “IF hot, DO NOT Touch”... this is Artificial Intelligence!

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • April 12, 2023
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  • Featured, Implant Denstistry, Teaching and Learning

Implant Surgery with map and compass!

Have you ever thought why some people are fast to orientate with a map, while others tend to be always lost? Or, why some prefer to look at the navigation carefully once before driving, while others need to have it constantly in front of their eyes? And what does this all have to do with implant surgery? Today we will dissect a crucial skill for any implant surgeon, the spatial representation ability and we will discuss how to train and improve it for the benefit of your patients. Finally we have a small challenge to test your skills!

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • January 26, 2023
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The rise of an “extramural” academia and the shape of things to come in Higher Education

“The Great Resignation”, is one of the main macro-trends that will shape the post pandemic world. Is academia and higher education also affected? All signs show that it is and in ways that could have significant implications for the future of higher education.

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • July 3, 2022
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  • Teaching and Learning

Transformation for learning and learning to transform!

The amount of disruption we have all experienced in our lives and practice of dentistry is unprecedented in living memory. There is no doubt we have entered a period of ...

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • August 29, 2020
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  • Teaching and Learning

LEARN! – SHARE! – PREPARE!

Today, we discuss some smart strategies to improve your skills in Implant Dentistry and  sharpen your mental blades from your desktop, without spending a dime!

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • March 21, 2020
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  • Teaching and Learning

“Attentive”, “Auditors”, “Diggers”, “Browsers” and other online learning tribes..!

I belong to the generation that was terrified at the sound of the word “dropout”. From very early in life we were taught to always finish what we started, regardless if this was ...

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • March 25, 2019
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  • Teaching and Learning

A MOOC for Implant Dentistry?

It’s been almost a week since enrolment opened for our MOOC, the first Massive Open Online Course in Implant Dentistry! As excitement grows, so does the daily list ...

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  • Nikos Mattheos
  • February 7, 2019
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