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Miller's Law can refer to two different principles.
[edit] In communication
Miller's law, part of his theory of communication, was formulated by George Miller, Princeton Professor and psychologist.It instructs us to suspend judgment about what someone is saying so we can first understand them without imbuing their message with our own personal interpretations.
The law states: "To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of."[1] [2]
The point is not to blindly accept what people say, but to do a better of job listening for understanding. "Imagining what it could be true of" is another way of saying to consider the consequences of the truth, but to also think about what must be true for the speaker's "truth" to make sense.
[edit] In psychology
The observation, also by George Armitage Miller, that the number of objects an average person can hold in working memory is about seven.[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armitage_Miller
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George Armitage Miller (born February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is the author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"[3] published in 1956 in Psychological Review.[4][5][6] This paper suggests that seven (plus or minus two) is the magic number that characterizes people's memory performance on random lists of letters, words, numbers, or almost any kind of meaningful familiar item.
According to a widely cited multi-method empirical study,[7] Miller is the 20th most historically important psychologist of the 20th century.
Miller received his PhD in 1946 from Harvard University, based on military research he did during the war on the topic of speech perception, under the supervision of Stanley Smith Stevens.[8]
In 1960, Miller founded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard with Jerome Bruner, a cognitive developmentalist. In the same year, he published a key book in the development of nonbehaviorist psychology, 'Plans and the Structure of Behaviour' (with Eugene Galanter and Karl Pribram), which outlined their conception of Cognitive Psychology.
He is known in the linguistics community, for overseeing the development of WordNet, a semantic network for the English language. He is also known for coining Miller's Law: In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.
He is presently professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology at Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is also a former President of the American Psychological Association, and in 1991, received the National Medal of Science.
[edit] Magic number seven
Working memory is generally considered to have limited capacity. The earliest quantification of the capacity limit associated with short-term memory was the "magical number seven" introduced by Miller (1956).[3] He noticed that the memory span of young adults was around seven elements, called chunks, regardless whether the elements were digits, letters, words, or other units. Later research revealed that span does depend on the category of chunks used (e.g., span is around seven for digits, around six for letters, and around 5 for words), and even on features of the chunks within a category. For instance, span is lower for long than for short words. In general, memory span for verbal contents (digits, letters, words, etc.) strongly depends on the time it takes to speak the contents aloud, and on the lexical status of the contents (i.e., whether the contents are words known to the person or not).[9] Several other factors also affect a person's measured span, and therefore it is difficult to pin down the capacity of short-term or working memory to a number of chunks. Nonetheless, Cowan (2001)[10] has proposed that working memory has a capacity of about four chunks in young adults (and less in children and old adults).[edit] WordNet and Simpli
George Miller was the founder of WordNet, a linguistic knowledgebase that maps the way the mind stores and uses language. Development began in 1985 and the project has received about $3 million of funding, mainly from government agencies interested in machine translation. He spent the later part of his career building and expanding this database. He also worked on a number of commercial applications based on WordNet, most notably, Simpli. Simpli was an early Internet search and marketing engine created by George Miller and a number of Professors and graduate students at Brown University, including Jeff Stibel, James A. Anderson and Steve Reiss. Simpli utilized WordNet to "read" search queries and disambiguate them. It was also used to read webpages and derive representative keywords so that advertising could be presented. Applied Semantics, a competing search engine that was eventually acquired by Google and evolved into Google AdSense, was based on the WordNet lexicon, as well.[11]http://www.interop-solutions.com/MeetInterop.htm
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BETHESDA, Md. — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has received the 2010 Prism Award for excellence in leadership coaching initiatives from the International Coach Federation Metro D.C. Chapter.
The Prism Award, presented during a ceremony held Feb. 11 at the Capitol Hilton, “highlights the impact of coaching on business results and employee performance,” according to an ICF statement. “It is presented to the organization that has shown the most commitment to and support of leadership coaching initiatives over the past year.”
“NGA’s coaching program is a key tool for developing our leaders,” said NGA Director Letitia A. Long. “This program helps to enhance the leadership capabilities of our Agency and is an important investment in our workforce. Not only am I a strong supporter of our coaching program, I personally participate.”
NGA’s leadership development program, begun in 2003, is targeted to the Agency’s mid and senior-level leaders and is designed to address several key workforce issues such as succession planning, retention of high performers, acceleration of the success and retention of staff who are deployed overseas, and support of senior executives and teams as they face key business challenges.
Coaching services are provided not only to individuals and teams, but also as a follow up to several leadership training programs to help maximize learning and drive results. Coaches also have facilitated workshops for Agency employees on a variety of topics related to improving workforce performance and engagement.
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Sanjiv Sidhu claims to have arrived independently at the same conclusions as cognitive psychologist George A. Miller regarding the number of elements that one can process effectively at any given time. His official biography states:
- Based on his observation that even the smartest people can juggle no more than nine variables when making decisions, he proposed a design for computer software based on artificial intelligence and advanced simulation techniques.
Factors in the shrinking of the company include the bursting of the Internet bubble and also the strategic competition from SAP. Concerning the latter, SAP, moving from an initial position of partnership with i2, decided in the late 1990s to compete directly with supply chain companies (i2 being the most prominent); its supply-chain solution, initially called APO, had the advantage of being integrated with the rest its ERP solution: in the domain of the large multinational clients, the twin arguments of total integration and single-vendor sourcing proved decisive.
On 11th August 2008, a merger agreement was announced for JDA Software to acquire i2 Technologies for an enterprise value of approximately $346 million in cash, but this was called off on 4th December of the same year. But JDA Software Inc. came back again for a merger and acquired i2 Technologies on 28 January 2010.
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