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Written by Miami Today on August 19, 2010
Thursday 8/26
Colorful, glowing images pop in this exhibit by underwater photographer Colin Foord. Fluorescent photos document the zoanthids of Florida's coral reefs. On view 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Ends Sept. 26. Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center at Crandon Park, 6767 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne. Details: (305) 361-6767 or www.biscaynenaturecenter.org.
Miami artist Rosemarie Romero's photomontage prints attacking wars in the Middle East, Africa and other distant countries are displayed in "Sexual War Politics." Exhibit ends Aug. 31. World Erotic Art Museum, 1205 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. $15. Details: (305) 532-9336 or www.weam.com.
The Miami Art Museum presents "Focus Gallery: Purvis Young" an exhibit featuring works that span local self-taught artist Mr. Young's career, depicting scenes of life in Overtown. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 375-3000 or firstname.lastname@example.com or www.miamiartmuseum.org.
"Jaguar's Spots: Ancient Mesoamerican Art from the Lowe Art Museum" features 175 pieces from the Olmec, Maya and Aztec areas spanning more than 2,000 years, including a rare codex-style Maya vase with text and mythological imagery. Ends Oct. 31. Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Free for members. $10 nonmembers. Details: www.6.miami.edu/lowe/index.htm.
In honor of its 15th anniversary, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University showcases 100 objects in its "+5: Recent Acquisitions from the Wolfsonian Collection." Features: a large Teco bottle vase with a swirled base designed by Fritz Albert, a collection of color lithographs by American photographer William Henry Jackson and a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomasco Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry. Ends Sept. 26. The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. $5-$7. Details: (305) 531-1001 or www.wolfsonian.org.
Peruse 30 large-format photographs by Randi Sidman-Moore in "Lox with Black Beans and Rice: Portraits of Cuban Jews in South Florida." Images are coupled with brief oral histories on the lives of Cuban Jews who fled to the area after the 1959 Cuban communist revolution. Learn about their daily lives, holiday rituals and how the "Jewban" subculture differs from or is similar to the larger society. Ends Sept. 26. Jewish Museum of Florida, 311 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Details: (305) 672-5044 or www.jewishmuseum.com.
Miami Art Museum highlights local artists' work in "New Work Miami." The exhibit features paintings, sculptures, drawings, video and more by 35 Miami-based artists. Ends Oct. 17. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 375-3000 or www.miamiartmuseum.org.
Tuesday 8/24
The University of Miami holds an opening reception for an exhibit displaying the work of its incoming Master of Fine Arts students, including sculptures, ceramics, photography and digital imaging. 5-9 p.m. Exhibit ends Sept. 17. The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Gallery at the Wesley Foundation, 1210 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables. Free. Details: (305) 284-2543 or email@example.com or www.as.miami.edu/art.
Miami International University of Art & Design showcases "Not Just Made Men" an exhibit on loan from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University. The exhibit features documents and ad campaigns from the early 1960s. Before the opening a panel of industry experts will discuss graphic design and the advertising industry in the 1960s and how it has evolved. Ends Sept. 30. Miami International University of Art & Design, 1501 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Free. RSVP requested for panel discussion. Details: firstname.lastname@example.com or www.mymiu.edu.
Wednesday 9/1
Bakehouse Art Complex hosts the first installment of its BAC Art Canvas quarterly panels. This session will be an informal discussion of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Miami 1980-1983, including a presentation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Surrounded Islands" slides by Joe Fleming. Panelists include Margarita Cano, head of art services for Miami-Dade Public Library System; Dr. Paula Harper, a professor of art history at the University of Miami; Ruth Shack, retired president and CEO of the Dade Community Foundation; and art historian Helen Kohen. 7 p.m. Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32nd St., Wynwood. Members free. Others $10. Details: (305) 576-2828 or www.bacfl.org.


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Is that Sun's Santa Clara Datacenter in your Browser?
By mary on Feb 25, 2009
A few months ago I became lead for the corporate work we do in virtual world environments. Today I've got the the first significant event happening since I got this baton and started running with it.
We're hosting an event for our industry analysts. We're going to have 3D virtualized models of Sun's Santa Clara, California datacenter. Our industry analysts are going to be able to "see" by joining us in the virutal world or by experiencing it on the web. So in a pretty real sense, we're delivering the Santa Clara, California datacenter in a browser. Pretty cool, eh?
So while the event is technically for industry analysts, pls feel free to peek in on it, even if you don't technically qualify as an industry analyst. I won't tell.
opportunity to participate in-world is by invitation only to these
industry analysts, and that has sold out. So if you want in on this
game, you need to watch and participate on the web.
Sun execs Greg Papadopoulos and Dean Nelson are featured speakers.
What are they going to talk about?
Datacenter consolidation. We've done a bunch of big announcements around this. It's all really good stuff.
But what I think is super cool about this event is that we're going to be taking advantage of the unique attributes associated w/a virtual world environment to tell this story.
We're doing things like being able to "show" the heat coming off the servers and how the innovation that the Sun Services organization is delivering to our customers manages it.
So while your man-on-the-street might not really get what a HUGE big deal heat and energy is in the datacenter, these hot shot techno celebs running the datacenters totally get that. And this is a neat way for us to show our industry analyst community what the issues are and how innovation from Sun is addressing them for customers in a unique and compelling way.
I'm pretty pumped. I think it will be fun.
Then, let me know what you think!

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Chemistry is everywhere in the world around you. It's in the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the water you drink, the medicines you take, the air you breathe, and cleaners you use. In fact, chemistry is sometimes called the "central science" because it connects other sciences to each other: biology, physics, geology and environmental science.
Beyond just understanding this complex, invisible world around us, the study of chemistry also gives you the opportunity to solve important problems for society. Maybe your research turns into the cure for a disease. Maybe you find a better way to sanitize water for people in remote areas. Perhaps your research allows companies to produce food more efficiently.
Because chemistry is in everything around us, your research could allow you to explore any interest you have. In the Department of Chemistry at UNO, the coursework is rigorous and faculty have high expectations. Understanding the world on the molecular scale requires effort while application of the concepts you learn takes practice.
The theory learned in lecture and texts is practiced in the lab – both hands on synthesis and analysis of compounds, as well as dynamic modeling of molecules using computers.
Students wanting to become doctors, physicists, nutritionists, geologists, and pharmacists all study chemistry. Chemistry also translates well to the business world, as it supplies students with the timeless knowledge and skills that are an asset to many organizations.


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Casa Hotel, Chesterfield's only independently operated 4* hotel, has put Chesterfield on the map after being named as one of the UK's Top 10 hotels by review site, TripAdvisor, for a second year running.
The Spanish influenced hotel, which boasts 100 luxury rooms, the award winning Cocina Restaurant, Barca Bar and state of the art conference and wedding facilities, has been named as the ninth best hotel in the UK, based on consumer reviews via the TripAdvisor holiday review website, which enables visitors to rate their stay based on sleep quality, service and more.
Out of a total of 571 reviews on the site, 84% said that their stay was 'excellent', with 97.7% saying that their stay was 'very good' or 'excellent'. Many visitors praised the service from the hotel staff, the quality and comfort of their sleep and value for money.
Casa Hotel is located in the historic market town of Chesterfield, just a short drive away from the picturesque hills and walks in the Peak District, and the cities of Sheffield and Nottingham. From those travelling to Chesterfield seeking a luxurious break away, to those simply visiting to enjoy a drink and dinner in the bar and restaurant, Casa Hotel prides itself on focusing on those small details that make a big difference.
Steven Garcia Perez, Owner of Casa Hotel says,
"To be recognised by TripAdvisor as one of the UKs Top 10 hotels is a fantastic achievement and I am incredibly proud of each and every member of staff at Casa for their contribution towards this accolade. What really stands out in all of the comments on TripAdvisor, beyond great value for money and a comfortable night's sleep, is the level of service visitors received during their stay with us. There are countless anecdotes of the Casa team going the extra mile and this award is a great testament to their continued hard work.
Being listed in the Top 10 really puts Chesterfield on the map as an up and coming place to visit and we hope that this will help drive tourism to the town and surrounding areas in 2014."


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Open Compute Keynote de Philippe Dewost a USI 2015 Unexpected Sources of Inspiration - Philippe Dewost's light sources
L'édition 2015 de la Conference USI (Unexpected Sources of Inspiration) s'est tenue début Juillet au Carrousel du Louvre et a confirmé son statut de meilleure Conference Tech sur Paris, combinant un site exceptionnel, une audience de plus de 1200 participants très diverse et de très bon niveau, et une palette de speakers dans plusieurs disciplines délivrant une quarantaine d'interventions sur les deux jours. La Caisse des Dépôts était de nouveau partenaire de cette édition avec plus d'une cinquantaine de participants dans le cadre de son programme de transformation digitale.
François Hisquin, CEO d'Octo et Curateur de la conférence, m'avait demandé d'intervenir sur la thématique d'Open Compute, dont la contribution aux enjeux de la transition énergétique n'est toujours pas correctement appréciée en Europe alors même que nous hébergeons des entreprises extrêmement talentueuses dans ce domaine.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Keynote en video et slideshare pour ceux qui n'ont pas le son
CHECy's curator insight, November 25, 2015 12:15 PM
Intervention de Philippe Dewost, Président d'honneur du CHECy, lors de la conférence USI 2015.
Fully homomorphic encryption, or how to perform operations over encrypted data | Orange Research blog
Can we outsource medical analysis without giving away our medical information? Can we do biometrical identification without revealing our characteristics? Can we make statistics on data that we do not know? Yes we can, thanks to a cryptographic mechanism called "homomorphic encryption".
Cryptography has known many transformations over the years. Many centuries ago, it was first used to protect military and political communications. Though very simple, the mechanisms then devised are still the foundation of current cryptography. The introduction of the computer during Second World War considerably increased the computation capacity. This increase reflected on cryptography in the late 70's, when public key cryptography was invented. Cryptography became a thriving scientific field. Numerous academic works were produced, commercial standards were set and cryptographic algorithms began to secure our daily life. Today, cryptography is everywhere: in our credit cards, in our phone communications, in our internet browsing, etc.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 14, 10:57 AM
Here is a fantastic "paper" by Orange Research that deciphers homomorphic encryption in a very clear way, and outlines its future and challenges.
Among the variety of non-financial use cases, blockchain technology can be applied to identity applications in areas such as digital identities, passports, e-residency, birth certificates, wedding certificates, IDs, online account logins, etc. Creating an identity on blockchain can give individuals greater control over who has their personal information and how they access it.
By combining the decentralized blockchain principle with identity verification, a digital ID can be created to act as a digital watermark which can be assigned to every online transaction of any asset. Here are some of the pioneers in building blockchain-based identity management and authentication solutions for cross-industry applications
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 13, 10:37 AM
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Fort du grand succès d'une première édition au printemps 2016, Le Monde organise deux concours, l'un pour les candidats des pays membres de l'Union européenne, l'autre ouvert aux candidats des autres pays du monde, tous porteurs de projets en matière d'innovation urbaine.
Ces prix sont ouverts aux projets entrés dans une phase de réalisation, qu'ils émanent de particuliers, d'associations, d'entreprises ou d'organismes publics ou privés.
Les candidats doivent postuler à l'une des six catégories suivantes:
· Innovation urbaine : innovation technologique appliquée à la ville.
· Participation citoyenne (Prix Le Monde-Inta) : décerné à un processus dans lequel les citoyens assument un rôle dans l'élaboration et la gestion des espaces et services urbains physiques et/ou virtuels ;
· Habitat : projet innovant en matière d'espace de vie urbain (résidentiel, bureaux, matériaux nouveaux, etc.) ;
· Mobilité : projet facilitant une circulation à dimension plus humaine et plus économe ;
· Energie : projet visant à réduire l'empreinte carbone des villes ;
· Action culturelle : innovation sociale et numérique de dimension culturelle et urbaine.
Les candidatures européennes sont à envoyer (en français, en anglais ou en espagnol) à email@example.com, avant le 19 février 2017 à minuit.
Les candidatures des pays non-européens sont à envoyer (en anglais si possible) à email@example.com avant le 2 avril 2017 à minuit.
Les éléments à envoyer pour postuler sont les suivants :
· un lien vers une vidéo de trois minutes maximum qui présente la solution;
· un texte de 3 000 signes maximum avec un descriptif de l'initiative, son ou ses objectifs, la nature de l'innovation, le calendrier prévu, les acteurs, le coût et le financement ;
· un document officiel justifiant de votre identité et de l'existence juridique de votre structure.
Un jury international composé de personnalités qualifiées examinera les candidatures et choisira les lauréats. Chacun des six prix est doté de 1 000 euros. Le jury sélectionnera parmi l'ensemble des candidats le lauréat du Grand Prix Le Monde- L'Atelier BNP Paribas, doté de 2 000 euros.
Les prix européens seront remis le 7 avril 2017 à Lyon. Les prix internationaux seront remis à Singapour début juin
En savoir plus sur http://www.lemonde.fr/les-prix-de-l-innovation/article/2016/11/24/appel-a-candidatures-prix-europeens-de-l-innovation-2017-le-monde-smart-cities_5036994_4811683.html#6q8tid6Ao79uVqQy.99
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
La CDC sera cette année partenaire des Prix Le Monde Smart City. N'hésitez pas à candidater pour :
Over the last seven years, France's Banque publique d'investissement, or Bpifrance, has been the world's most active sovereign wealth fund investing in private tech companies. Bpifrance was originally set up as a sovereign investment fund in 2009.
The government of Singapore owns the world's second and third most active funds. These two funds are Temasek Holdings, which distributes dividends solely to Singapore's Ministry of Finance, and GIC, the private equity investment arm of the government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Very proud to see our largest subsidiary deploying the "Investments For The Future" (the €35 Bn plan launched in 2011) funds across the french economy, and proud to see its Mother Company being also part of the ranking in such a prestigious crowd !
Disclosure : I work for Caisse Des Dépôts representing it as the sole LP in the Bpifrance funds managed for the IFF/PIA program.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, January 26, 5:54 AM
Very proud to see our largest subsidiary deploying the "Investments For The Future" (the €35 Bn plan launched in 2011) funds across the french economy, and proud to see its Mother Company being also part of the ranking in such a prestigious crowd !
Disclosure : I work for Caisse Des Dépôts representing it as the sole LP in the Bpifrance funds managed for the IFF/PIA program.
The iPhone's 10th birthday was a happy opportunity to look once again at Steve Jobs' masterclass in storytelling and positioning, and to contemplate, with incredulous gratitude, the enormity of the consequences. As Horace Dediu, our nonpareil tech historian and poet, recently remarked with his trademark humor, The First Trillion Dollars is Always the Hardest [as always, edits and emphasis mine]:
"In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time. The iPhone also enabled the iOS empire which includes the iPod touch, the iPad, the Apple Watch and Apple TV whose combined total unit sales will reach 1.75 billion units over 10 years. This total is likely to top 2 billion units by the end of 2018.
[…] iOS will have generated over $1 trillion in revenues for Apple sometime this year.
In addition, developers building apps for iOS have been paid $60 billion. The rate of payments has now reached $20 billion/yr.
No one saw it coming, Apple execs included. For their part, the high tech incumbents made many infelicitous statements, only to be steamrolled when the iPhone and, later, Android changed everything. The Smartphone 2.0 wasn't just a one-to-one communication device, it influenced media creation and consumption, transformed everyday commerce with in-phone wallets and touch ID, turned social networking into a ubiquitous tool. It even forced Enterprise information systems to completely rethink and retool their infrastructure — this wasn't simply a computer with a "smaller form factor".
In retrospect, the ascendency of Smartphone 2.0 and the way it has shaped our culture seems obvious and natural. But the celebration and contemplation overlooks a crucial Sine Qua Non, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition: Unlocking the carriers' grip on handset specifications, marketing, and content distribution.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Fascinating Monday Note by Jean-Louis Gassée, reminding us that while much has been said about the original iPhone's success factors (an innovative multi-touch interface, a never-seen-before combination of cell phone, iPod and Internet "navigator") we are often missing one crucial element: removing the carrier's control on the iPhone's features and content.
Quoting Horace Dediu, "In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time. The iPhone also enabled the iOS empire which includes the iPod touch, the iPad, the Apple Watch and Apple TV whose combined total unit sales will reach 1.75 billion units over 10 years. This total is likely to top 2 billion units by the end of 2018."
After he left Tamale, Fawcett started spending time with quantitative traders (i.e., quants) and the more he learned about how they created trading algorithms, the bigger and bolder his next idea became. The outcome of his thinking led him to a pivotal insight: the time had come to disrupt the exclusive world of quantitative hedge funds. How would he do it? By harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to build a community of quants, feeding that community with lots of data and incentivizing the community (through regular contests and events) to produce new strategies that could be used in live trading. Today, that unique approach has been transformed into one of the mostly closely watched fintech companies in America. For the company's next act, Fawcett and his co-founder, Jean Bredeche, are hard at work in laying the foundation to launch an in-house hedge fund utilizing strategies generated from its 100,000+ member community. The FR's Gregg Schoenberg recently sat down with Fawcett to learn more about his company and the bold moves he's making to level the playing field in one of the most lucrative — and heretofore undisrupted — corners of the investment management universe.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
When Quantitative Trading mingles with the Crowd. Will 2017 see the advent of new types of investment funds backed with thousands of LPs ?
Flying cars have long been the centerpiece of fantastical future visions, but personal flying machines never quite materialized. One startup, however, is looking to change that.
Lilium Aviation has today announced a €10 million ($10.7 million) funding round from Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström's Atomico, to create a world "in which everyone can fly anywhere, anytime," the company says. But the electric Lilium jet isn't a car as such — it doesn't have wheels.
The jet remains a prototype for now, but with its latest funding round the company is looking to expedite development, with flight-testing kicking off in early 2017 ahead of commercial production.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
A child's dream moving closer to reality ?
We are at the very beginning of a fundamental shift in the way that humans communicate with computers. I laid out the beginning of my case for this in my essay The Hidden Homescreen in which I argued that as Internet-powered services are distributed through an increasingly fractured set of channels, the metaphor of apps on a "homescreen" falls apart.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Very interesting post. User Interfaces have indeed moved into User Experiences and as products/services saturate our free/idle moments, context management and focus on relevance will be indeed core.
Plus we won't manage the dozen of objects in the smart home with dozens of apps and screen interactions. This is where http://hayo.io could step in.
Meet Lilium, the world's first VTOL personal aircraft – Hello Tomorrow Challenge 2016 Grand Prize Winner
It's hard not to get excited when people start talking about flying cars — after all, who doesn't want a flying Jetsons car? When 2016 Hello Tomorrow Challenge grand prize winner, Lilium Jet, got on stage to present the world's first vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) personal aircraft, the audience was captivated. Before us was an image of a futuristic egg-shaped personal jet, majestically soaring above the glistening ocean.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Inspiring ; makes you want to fly. Yet how will regulators qualify such array of hairdryers and impose safety rules ?
Could Samsung be the first big defection from ARM since the SoftBank takeover?
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
X86 architecture gave Intel dominance of the large PC market before hitting the smartphone wall.
Cortex architectures gave ARM dominance of the much larger smartphone market before hitting the SoftBank wall.
RISC-V may be the next architecture for the even much larger IoT market (in volume at least).
Intel is a US corporation, ARM was once a british company now under japanese flag : the nice thing with RISC-V is that it is an independent, open source, and royalty free architecture.
This will have consequences over the next decade in the computing race between the US and Asia (think Loogson and now ARM), and may be an opportunity for Europeans to step in and avoid to remain as "The Pacific" of cyber tests.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, November 30, 2016 1:18 AM
X86 architecture gave Intel dominance of the large PC market before hitting the smartphone wall.
Cortex architectures gave ARM dominance of the much larger smartphone market before hitting the SoftBank wall.
RISC-V may be the next architecture for the even much larger IoT market (in volume at least).
Intel is a US corporation, ARM was once a british company now under japanese flag : the nice thing with RISC-V is that it is an independent, open source, and royalty free architecture.
This will have consequences over the next decade in the computing race between the US and Asia (think Loogson and now ARM), and may be an opportunity for Europeans to step in and avoid to remain as "The Pacific" of cyber tests.
After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published. And it shows that the 'impossible' propulsion system really does appear to work.
The NASA Eagleworks Laboratory team even put forward a hypothesis for how the EM Drive could produce thrust – something that seems impossible according to our current understanding of the laws of physics.
In case you've missed the hype, the EM Drive, or Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British inventor Roger Shawyer back in 1999.
Instead of using heavy, inefficient rocket fuel, it bounces microwaves back and forth inside a cone-shaped metal cavity to generate thrust.
According to Shawyer's calculations, the EM Drive could be so efficient that it could power us to Mars in just 70 days.
But, there's a not-small problem with the system. It defies Newton's third law, which states that everything must have an equal and opposite reaction.
According to the law, for a system to produce thrust, it has to push something out the other way. The EM Drive doesn't do this.
Yet in test after test it continues to work. Last year, NASA's Eagleworks Laboratory team got their hands on an EM Drive to try to figure out once and for all what was going on.
And now we finally have those results.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Will the journey to Mars one day be shorter that Jules Verne 80 days to circumtravel the world ?
Here is the question of t(h)rust as Flying Salad Bowls may be underway... (time to watch "Iron Sky" one more time)
This is where Facebook will prototype its solar drones, Internet-beaming lasers, VR headsets, and next-gen servers.The problem with moving faster than most companies is that Facebook was plagued by delays whenever it had to outsource prototyping and testing of its gadgets and gizmos. With so much hardware on its 10-year roadmap, and quarter after quarter of profits stacking up, it made sense to build a dedicated laboratory within its Menlo Park headquarters.Facebook's 10-year roadmap includes drones, satellites, lasers, telecom infrastructure, VR headsets, and augmented reality hardware that will all be prototyped at Area 404
Actility, the industry leader in low power wide area networking, today announces that Tom Wheeler, former chair of the US Federal Communications Commission in the Obama Administration, has joined the Actility Board. Wheeler is a passionate advocate to the development of internet solutions that increase productivity, believing that the value-add in Web 3.0 will come in leveraging information collected from connected sensors that enhance business processes across all industries, and monetization will no longer be driven only by targeting content at consumers. Wheeler's appointment demonstrates Actility's determination to achieve a leading role in that Web 3.0 future
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Une très belle participation du Fonds Ecotechnologies (souscrit par la Caisse des Dépôts pour le Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir et géré par sa filiale Bpifrance) recrute une pointure à son Board. Il va falloir leur faire rencontrer Accor ...
Among the variety of non-financial use cases, blockchain technology can be applied to identity applications in areas such as digital identities, passports, e-residency, birth certificates, wedding certificates, IDs, online account logins, etc. Creating an identity on blockchain can give individuals greater control over who has their personal information and how they access it.
By combining the decentralized blockchain principle with identity verification, a digital ID can be created to act as a digital watermark which can be assigned to every online transaction of any asset. Here are some of the pioneers in building blockchain-based identity management and authentication solutions for cross-industry applications
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, February 13, 10:34 AM
Interesting array of use cases at the crossing of trust and privacy.
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Just looking at numbers :)It's probably irrelevant to compare those two separeted events. 5 years have passed, there are two times more smartphones and Facebook has successfully managed to become a highly growing & profitable company through incredible strategic moves: Instagram, Oculus, Whatsapp just to name a few.In May 2012, Facebook was valued 104 billions, after having raised 2.5B in venture capital and 16B at the IPO. Many people said it was overvalued. Now it's easy to say it, but I remember at the time how impressed I was by the moves of Mark Zuckerberg and how obvious it felt to me that Facebook would be worth more than 200B in less than 2 years. It actually happened. And it's now worth close to 400B.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Must read analysis by Kima's Jean de la Rochebrochard for those who like me are still puzzled by the next mega-IPO
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Amazon's voice-controlled personal assistant is creating chaos for people called Alexis, Alex and Alexa; TV sitcom tried to order milk — Life has been complicated ever since Alexa Sussman and her parents started using Amazon's Echo and its built-in 'Alexa' assistant."Alexa, stop!" Joanne Sussman screamed in her living room.Immediately, the computer living inside her Amazon Echo speaker stopped playing her favorite music station. Simultaneously, Mrs. Sussman's 24-year-old daughter, Alexa, froze on the stairs.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
AI first collaterals : girls named "Alexa", "Siri", or "Cortana". Unless we (or the IA giants) do something, these names will disappear from the charts soon while existing humans wearing these names will experience a nightmare.The short term winner ? "OK Google" as no child has been given such name... yet.
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Eight men now control as much wealth as the world's poorest 3.6 billion people, according to a new report from Oxfam International.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Half of the 8 men controlling as much wealth as 3.6 Billion people come from High Tech
Les West Web Awards sont ouverts à tous.
Vous travaillez dans le secteur public ou privé, vous êtes community manager d'une association, ou encore Chief Digital Officer d'une entreprise traditionnelle, lead developper dans une startup, UX designer en freelance… Alors déposez votre candidature !
Douze trophées à emporter, qui sera le meilleur dans sa catégorie ?
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Douze trophées vont récompenser les talents du numérique territorial lors de la cérémonie des West Web Awards le 9 février 2017 à Brest : en ferez-vous partie ? #FrenchTech #WestWebValley
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Silicon Valley giant Apple Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it is investing $1 billion (approximately Rs 6,793 crore) in Japanese telecom major SoftBank Group's Vision Fund, an estimated $100-billion (approximately Rs 68 lakh crore) venture that will oversee the development of new technologies. Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn and the family of the Oracle corporation's chairman Larry Ellison are also expected to invest in the fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Apple believes the move "will help 'speed the development of technologies that may be strategically important" to it, company spokesperson Kristin Huguet said. Apple has rarely ever invested in venture capital companies before.
While SoftBank will itself invest approximately $25 billion (approximately Rs 17 lakh crore) in its Vision Fund, it will be back largely by the Saudi Arabian government. American telecom equipment company Qualcomm Inc is also expected to put in an investment.
The SoftBank Vision Fund is expected to close its fundraising efforts by mid-2017.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
When $1Billion buys you 1% of a funding round #OrderOfMagnitude
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Infinit and Docker are joining forces.
To anyone following the container space, this may not come as a surprise because persistent storage remains the number one challenge when it comes to container technologies.
Still, for Infinit, this is a huge milestone, closing the loop that has taken the team through quite an incredible journey.
Docker has changed the way developers work. By providing an ecosystem of tools based on container technologies, developers and operators have been able to gain in agility and security. At the same time, Docker has succeeded at reconciling operators and developers (through what has been dubbed the DevOps movement) by making them speak the same language.
This whole revolution is still in its early stages even though both ends of the spectrum, startups and enterprises, have jumped on the train. Indeed, at this point, containers have been used primarily to deploy stateless applications because these can be stopped and relaunched easily, allowing for easy scalability.
Unfortunately, this is no longer enough as developers want more. Namely, they want the ability to scale stateful applications, such as databases, as easily as their stateless counterparts.
With stateful applications being the next natural step in this evolution, Infinit comes into play by providing the Docker community with a storage platform that is scalable, resilient and easy to deploy.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Congrats to the Infinit team for this amazing home run !
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage.On November 15, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a hell of a lot of satellites.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
One day we might no longer see the stars or even the clouds but only The Cloud #WelcomeToTheMatrix
Earlier this week, I sat down with the company's co-founders Gisèle Belliot and José Alonso Ybanez Zepeda, along with Uber co-founder-turned-investor Oscar Salazar, to discuss the product. The company's ramping up for a formal announcement at CES, in tandem with the launch of an Indiegogo campaign, and it's still working out some of the kinks around contextualizing its product.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Hayo is one of the most ambitious #IoT man machine(s) interface projects I have ever seen, led by an incredibly talented team in both New York and Paris, and backed by extremely strong IP.
C'est confirmé. Selon nos informations, Devialet, qui s'est fait une réputation avec ses enceintes haut de gamme, doit officialiser dans la journée une nouvelle levée de fonds de 100 millions d'euros. Celle-ci, qui avait fuité dans la presse il y a une quinzaine de jours, coordonnée par la banque d'affaires Bryan Garnier&co, occasionne l'arrivée de nouveaux investisseurs.
Dont Ginko ventures, une société de capital-risque suisse spécialisée dans la tech, créée en 2015, financée notamment par le géant taïwanais Foxconn, fabricant de produits électroniques et sous-traitant d'Apple. Par la même occasion, Jean-François Baril, fondateur et directeur général de Ginko, entre au conseil d'administration de Devialet. Parmi les autres nouveaux investisseurs cités figure le fabricant japonais d'électronique Sharp, acquis en 2016 par Foxconn.
Mais aussi, surprise, l'ancienne ministre de la culture et de la communication Fleur Pellerin fait une arrivée remarquée dans l'ex-start-up française devenue grande. Premier coup, joli coup. Trois mois après le lancement de son fonds Korelya Capital, elle doit annoncer ce 28 novembre un "investissement significatif" au sein de Devialet, selon un proche du dossier.
Il s'agit de la première opération de ce jeune fonds. Et dans la foulée, l'ex-ministre rejoindra le conseil d'administration de la société française spécialisée dans le son haut de gamme. Korelya avait été abondé à hauteur de 100 millions d'euros par le mastodonte de l'Internet sud-coréen Naver et sa filiale Line, connue pour son service de messagerie instantanée.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Félicitations à Quentin Sannié et à toute l'équipe de Devialet, pépite de La French Tech qui réussit une superbe levée de fonds !
Et chapeau bas à Fleur Pellerin dont le fonds Korelya Capital fait une entrée remarquée sur la scène française du capital investissement...
Le billet de ce jour rassemble un certain nombre de réflexions autour du « futur du travail ». Ce sujet est particulièrement d'actualité en ce moment, qu'il s'agisse de la presse ou de la préparation de la campagne présidentielle. En ce qui me concerne, j'ai eu la chance de passer une semaine à la Singularity University dans le cadre du Singularity University Executive Program, ce qui m'a permis d'approfondir mes idées sur le sujet. Ce billet reprend les points principaux que j'ai développé le 12 Octobre lors du séminaire de l'Académie des Technologies, lors d'une conférence intitulée « Emploi et travail dans un monde envahi par les robots et les systèmes intelligents ». Il s'inscrit dans la continuité d'un premier billet écrit il y a deux ans, mais j'ai affiné mon diagnostic et j'ai donc des convictions plus fortes et plus précises.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
C'est long. C'est dense. C'est très bien documenté. C'est réfléchi. Cela ne se survole pas en 30 secondes mais on en ressort en ayant appris. Bref du grand Yves Caseau.
(si j'avais du titrer en anglais j'aurais repris le joli titre de la très mauvaise chanson d'un album de Heaven 17 "crushed by the wheels of industry" — The Luxury Gap, 1983 qui contient notamment "Let Me Go" et "Temptation")
Society doesn't work without trust
Human being is the only species with trust. We trust hundreds of strangers without even thinking about it.
How do we enable trust?
How does security enable trust. How do we induce trust?
Trust: confidence, consistence, compliancy. It's about cooperation.
All complex ecosystems require cooperation. In any cooperative system, there is a way to subvert the system for personal interests.
These are called defectors in game theory. They are parasites. They can survive if they are contained. If too many parasites the body dies and the parasites die too.
Society doesn't work if everybody steals. Security can be defined as a tax on the honests.
Social species: individual competition plus group competition.
Security is to keep defection level at an acceptable minimum that is not zero.
NSA defector Edward Snowden raises moral debates but the point is that he is a defector. How group enforce the norm. Even mafia groups.
It is about societal pressure.
4 types of societal pressure
Example: eBay feedback mechanism is a reputational security system that worked remarkably for years as the main security system.
How does technology affects us?
Technology is what allows society to scale. It is neutral.
Filesharing: social pressure vs technology
Attackers have a first mover advantage and are more adaptive.
Mid 90's Internet going commercial: hackers used it immediately while it took 10 years to the police to figure out how to address it
Such delay is the main security gap
Our society is at a point where technology is faster than social changes which means that the security gap widens.
Before: buy this and you'll be safe
Now: when you've been attacked, please talk to us and we'll help
It's the antivirus history
Smart paradigm: detect unknown viruses including false positives
Stupid paradigm: check for signatures and update once or twice a day
The stupid paradigm seems to have won.
So technology will always favor defectors? True, but large organizations can now use technology in a much more effective manner.
Our society has the most technology and the largest institutions.
The battle is amplifying between agile defectors and slower yet more effective institutions. Losers are those of us in the middle.
To him it is not even clear how there is a balance nor how it will evolve.
As a conclusion
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
Digiworld Summit 2016 is on "The Digital Trust Economy" - Time to remember Bruce Schneier's remarkable words of wisdom at USI 3 years ago - I have added my on the fly notes to the video link for those who prefer reading.
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight, November 15, 2016 2:01 AM
Digiworld Summit 2016 is on "The Digital Trust Economy" - Time to remember Bruce Schneier's remarkable words of wisdom at USI 3 years ago - I have added my on the fly notes to the video link for those who prefer reading.
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Skip to comments.Ruh-Roh: Administration Wants to Tie in Obamacare to NICS
Posted on 04/26/2013 5:55:18 AM PDT by pabianice
(GunNews.com) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has initiated a rulemaking process to remove unnecessary legal barriers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule that may prevent states from reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which is the database that houses information on individuals prohibited by law from possessing firearms.
This is one of the 23 executive actions the President announced in January.
Through the public comment process, we will use the data and information provided by states, health providers, patient advocates and others to determine how best to remove unnecessary barriers to NICS reporting while protecting patient privacy, Sebelius said in an April 19 HHS release.
The NICS was created by the Brady Act and ensures that guns are not sold to those prohibited by law from buying them, including felons, those convicted of domestic violence, and individuals involuntarily committed to a mental institution or found to be a danger or unable to manage their affairs due to a mental health condition.
According to a 2012 Government Accountability Office report, 17 states had submitted fewer than 10 records of individuals prohibited for mental health reasons.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) plans to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to ask for the publics input on how HIPAA may prevent some states from reporting to the NICS and ways in which these barriers can be addressed without discouraging individuals from seeking mental health services.
In order to protect our children and communities, we must ensure that information on potentially dangerous individuals who are prohibited from possessing firearms is available to the background check system, said Secretary Sebelius.
Through the public comment process, we will use the data and information provided by states, health providers, patient advocates and others to determine how best to remove unnecessary barriers to NICS reporting while protecting patient privacy, said OCR Director Leon Rodriguez.
The database that houses non-criminal justice information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms for reasons related to mental health called the NICS Index does not contain medical or mental health records.
If an individual is prohibited from purchasing a firearm due to specific mental health reasons as set by law, the following information is submitted to the NICS: (1) basic identifying information about the individual such as name, social security number, and date of birth, (2) the name of the state or federal agency that submitted the information, and (3) a notation on which of the ten prohibited categories is applicable to the individual, which allows the individual to appeal and seek to correct incomplete or inaccurate information if needed.
When federally licensed firearms dealers request a NICS background check for a potential buyer, the only information they get back is that the potential buyer is approved, denied, or additional investigation is needed. The dealer does not receive any information about why an individual is denied and does not ever have access to any records of potential buyers, including health records.
The ANPRM will be available for review.
And who's suprised by such a thing?
And trust me it won't stop there if there is no resistance
So, the FBI, NSA, CIA, and DHS have a hard time talking to each other about terrorist immigrants, but your nurse's aide will have no trouble blocking your pistol purchase through the DOJ.
Ten categories could be expanded to 100 with little to no fanfare. Pretty soon, everyone will be denied for some reason or another, and the appeals process will be backlogged, confusing, and convoluted.
And the liberals will have won.
GOA predicted this in 2007.
Here comes the total control matrix.
Who is going to be a "dissident" when it might mean your health records are "accidentally deleted?"
Or you lose your RKBA?
Or you child might not get a needed operation. "Sorry, no more slots are available this year. Apply again next year."
This is the face of an evil dictatorship.
So all those millions of Americans who are on SSRI meds will have their guns confiscated. Just one of the repercussions.
Some free advice:
Doctors are, currently in some places and soon will be in others, asking patients and even children, "Do you or do your parents have guns in the house?"
My children know to look the doctor or any other adult who asks in the eye and "I do not know." I and my wife will take the liberty of lying outright if necessary. Your ownership of firearms will soon be something kept in your medical records.
My children's pediatrician asked me this several years ago. I told him he should never ask that question again. He apologized profusely and started to explain why he is now supposed to ask. BTW - He has his carry license and does carry concealed. Go figure.
What could possibly go wrong with this?
I understand completely, and am also prepared to lie as well. I might even through in a few anti-2nd ammendment decoy remarks if I'm asked.
Those "unnecessary legal barriers" were the very backbone of HIPAA when it was first introduced. An onerous burden upon doctors at first, making a lot of paperwork and much arcane and tedious language when discussing diagnosis and treatment of individuals.
Apparently there is no longer any expectation of privacy in ANY transaction today, with the exception of what the Current Regime is doing in the White Hut. Whatever is going on there, is classified so highly that only the enemy shall ever find out what is going on, if in fact the denizens of the White Hut are not in active collusion with what are perceived to be enemies of the republic.
I yearn for the days when the only worldwide competition the US faced was the Communist menace. This revival of the Ottoman Empire and its Worldwide KKKaliphate is a reversion to the collapse of Rome, this time America playing the part of the Caesars.
A law to enforce a law? Truly Kafka-esque
They won't really need to take the guns away. The Marxists know how to wait. Make new gun purchases difficult and dry up the ammo.
Making gun ownership a major hassle and legal risk has worked wonders in blue states. I read recently that gun ownership in some states has dropped from around 40% to 10%, because keeping your guns legal is a major PITA, and if you make a mistake, you could be arrested.
Abnormal Is the New Normal
Why will half of the U.S. population have a diagnosable mental disorder?
I call BS on that stat. I surmise it has gone up, exception being a few deep blue states, but they are also the biggest hypocrites in the world as well.
Luckily I don't need to purchase anymore and neither does anyone in my family.
Now a few will see why the 0bamacare act was really created and voted into law with no one reading it...
It had NOTHING to do with healthcare. Many on the right were well aware of this fact, but as usual the message & warnings fell on deaf ears.
It will be the new catch-22:
If you want a "killing-machine" such as a gun, you are clearly mentally ill and therefore cannot be allowed to purchase one, for your own safety, you see.
If you don't want a weapon, you are "normal" and sane and can now buy as many as you don't want.
It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
Exactly. They seem to have a real problem understanding "...shall not be infringed." but I'll bet dollars to donuts that they will have no problem understanding "From my cold dead hands."
They still have to take the guns away.
Cleansing justice WILL come.
"My childrens pediatrician asked me this several years ago."
Mine were asked this (along with other intrusive questions) as part of a pre-appointment survey.
Unless you can get your doctor to agree and PROMISE to not share information with the government which could be used against you, get another doctor.
Come on, after all, we live in a nation where the false right to kill a baby was created using our right to privacy.
If through a right to privacy we can kill babies, then we certainly have a right to prevent the government from knowing what 2nd Amendment protection devices we have in our homes.
It will be much less polite if they tear up the leaflets and try to Watertown a community in a red state.
Because aiming rifles at innocent American citizens, and screaming "OUT! OUT! OUT!" at them like German Nazis won't work where real Americans live.
While simultaneously declaring that ripping your own flesh and blood from your uterus and allowing a butcher to throw it in a toilet or snip its spinal cord as it desperately tries to cling to life is not only normal, it's your 'right'.
Evil doesn't even begin to describe what's in charge.
My favorite doctor appointments are the ones with my podiatrist. He is a firearms afficianado like myself and he has the dough to collect a lot.
Most of our sessions are not about my feet but rather about our personal firearms collections and pieces we'd like to own.
But most of the Chicago deaths are black people, so Ubama doesn't care.
Our mafia connected governor, Cuomo has been working with the Federal Stasi using NY State's unconstitutional gun law as a test vehicle to find a way to circumvent HIPAA.
Their first attempt failed miserably in Western NY with a gun owner deprived of his guns but then they had to be returned to him. Hopefully a few of our NY State Storm-troopers will be getting some new orange uniforms because of their violation of 1) A constitutional guarantee 2) HIPAA.
Are you one of my patients?!?
American Psychological Association is virulently anti-gun at the highest levels of the organizations' structure.
The American Psychological Association can not be allowed to become unelected unaccountable politically motivated doyens who can grant or rip away the natural born rights of men without a equitable system of checks and balances that is not a "pay for justice" stacked judicial kangaroo court system.
The NRA needs to come out in total against ObamaCare, put it all on the line, or they will have in fact surrendered the concept of natural born rights of man to protect one's self, home family and property.
This is end game moves in the history of our republic.
I highly doubt the schmucks and co-opted high rent charlatans running the NRA and GOP House leadership will give a fight over this.
Nope. But I'll be looking when I finally get out of this Communist Shiite hole called Massachusetts.
When my doc tries this one, my comment will be I don't want him running interference from that SOB in the whitehouse. If the SOB wants an answer, he can appear directly in front of me and ask for it. Otherwise, I have no answer.
Washington County - what state?
Mark Harmon is the last person you want to see your medical records ...
Executive Orders are only applicable to the Executive Branch of the Government they have no bearing on all of America - keep that in mind . The intent of this is only to get it into the courts as it is an unconstitutional power grab. American people are not subservient to the Executive Branch.
That would be applied to everyone—not only Obamacare recipients.
What you said!
"I don't know?" WTF - Why say that? Have them say NO!
Human nature being the way it is, saying "No" will get the right box checked, and that will be it. Any other answer will require follow-up questions later.
MY GD [8 y/o at the time] replied....*Not that I would notice,* when asked about guns in the house.
I thought that was a great off-the-cuff answer for her age
Later she told me, she was afraid that someone would come and take her BB gun away.
It literally breaks my heart, that our hobby of shooting sports is looked on so negatively; and that a child has to defend it. This is not the America I want to leave to her. I am ashamed.
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James Todhunter of Invention Machine shares how systematic methods for problem solving and knowledge management can help enterprises sustain innovation.Interview conducted by Vinod Baya and Bo Parker
James Todhunter is the CTO of Invention Machine Corporation, where he is responsible for the company's technology strategy and execution. A seasoned innovator and inventor, Todhunter works on the front line of innovation and has more than 30 years of experience in software technology and management.
In this interview, James Todhunter details how the Invention Machine Goldfire software blends innovation methods and semantic knowledge capabilities to provide problem-solving support during the innovation process.
PwC: Could you please describe your company a little bit as well as the core product and the challenge it solves for your customers?
JT: Absolutely. Invention Machine helps Global 5000 manufacturing companies drive sustainable innovation. While most companies profess their commitment to continuous innovation, very few of them know how to go about actualizing innovation in a consistent, repeatable way. Invention Machine gives companies a road map to high-performance innovation— first identifying an organization's critical innovation initiatives and communities, and then integrating innovation best practices and infrastructure to make innovation a sustainable engine for value creation.
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PwC: What are the methodologies that you include in your product?
JT: We essentially have a set of 14 out-of-the-box innovation tasks, as we call them. These are solutions we've developed by working with our global clients and analyzing their needs relative to innovation and the key tasks that innovation workers do in their organizations. Within the software, we can provide a repeatable framework to address these specific innovation tasks.
For example, one category in innovation is market research, another category is new product development, another category that we address is existing product improvement and enhancement, another category is risk management, and then the final category is IP [intellectual property] management. Each of these different high-level categories does specific things that people must accomplish on a regular basis.
You might need to examine potential new markets and understand what the opportunity is. How does that opportunity relate to your business from a standpoint of fit, feasibility, and financial practicality? If you're a product engineer looking at an existing product line, you might need to look at issues such as a new competitive challenge. How do you make sure your product line is going to address that challenge? Or how do you improve your product line to meet new government regulations?
From the IP perspective, you might need to understand how to erect the proper wall to protect your intellectual property. Or, if you are blocked from entry into a new market by a competitive IP element, how can you find alternative technology configurations that allow you to sidestep that roadblock so that you can get into the market but at the same time avoid any kind of exposure from patent infringement? These are just examples of some of what we would call the innovation tasks that people must do. In Goldfire, we provide defined methods of accomplishing those goals.
PwC: What are the solutions that support these methods? Where does TRIZ¹ fit in?
JT: To support the different innovation workflows, we provide lots of different tools in our solution. For example, on the quality side, different standard approaches include failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis [FMECA], HAZOP [hazard and operability] if you're in the chemical industry, and so on.
Another innovation-specific methodology built into the platform is the one you mentioned called TRIZ. It's just one of a number of tools that the Goldfire innovation platform leverages to help make innovation and knowledge workers more effective.
TRIZ recognizes and matches patterns on what is called technical contradictions. As a general capability, it also includes other ways of examining, understanding, and solving a problem. Specifically, it includes this method called Su-Field Analysis, which is a form of functional analysis of engineering systems. Goldfire provides a toolkit around functional analysis modeling as well as functional simplification, which has been one of the other TRIZ tools of value in the innovation discipline.
PwC: If you think about the end-to-end process of idea to cash, where do your solutions fit in that process and what technology are they using?
JT: As I talk to leaders in global corporations about where they see challenges, I don't hear a lot of people complaining about the ability to generate ideas. What I hear mostly is, "We've got tons of ideas. Everybody's giving us ideas. What we lack is the ability to filter the ideas, to really be able to understand how to focus on the ideas that are going to have the greatest potential. And then, given that we've identified those ideas, how do we move from an idea to an actual deliverable concept to delivered products?" Often, people use Goldfire to help them identify and focus on what they need to accomplish. When you look at an idea and the road toward a deliverable concept and then eventually a delivered product, the eventual product needs to fit certain metrics relative to alignment with the competencies and strategy of the corporation. It needs to fit relative to revenue and profitability generation, or contribution to margin, or feasibility and practicality to manufacture.
Goldfire helps companies address those issues. One of the three components I mentioned of Goldfire is a state-of-the-art semantic research capability. It is the ability to look at various streams of internal as well as external sources of information—things from their industry, from outside their industry, on social media channels where discussions and conversations about their products and their marketplaces may be occurring—and be able to find very quickly and precisely the concepts that they need to understand so they can make good decisions about how various potential options and ideas map to these different types of metrics.
"At the end of the day, when you look at how high-value innovation occurs, it really is the notion of synthesizing information in a specific context of a business problem."
PwC: If tools need to support the end-to-end innovation process from ideas to cash, what capabilities do they need?
JT: Lots of different constituencies are involved in the entire innovation process. To move beyond just simply having pockets with individuals who may drive the occasional accidental innovation per se, to establish a repeatable and predictable environment of innovation, and to build a healthy and active community of innovation within the enterprise, you really must look at all those constituencies and understand two things. One, what are the roles of those constituencies and what are the specific paths they follow to contribute to that value-creation process? And, two, what kinds of information do they both consume and produce in this process?
At the end of the day, when you look at how high-value innovation occurs, it really is the notion of synthesizing information in a specific context of a business problem. Fundamentally, that means that organizations must bring together these different elements of reliable methods that they can equip their knowledge workers with. But organizations also must equip their knowledge workers with knowledge—knowledge that is not readily accessed today. When you do that, you start to create an innovation intelligence ecosystem that allows each individual knowledge worker, based on their role, to have optimal access to information on a just-in-time basis to help them drive forward their contribution.
PwC: What role do you think the CIO and the IT organization could play in innovation?
JT: I think the CIO and the IT organization have a tremendous opportunity these days to help their company drive innovation. In the past, a lot of companies viewed IT as an opponent of innovation, and that is sad, because IT is really in the catbird seat to help drive innovation.
Most companies today lack a collaborative infrastructure for innovation, and they really need to put one in place. In doing so, companies should start breaking down information silos and establishing the mechanisms that allow broad cross-organizational leverage and reuse of knowledge. They need to take the information that's locked up statically in different data stores and mobilize it. IT is in the perfect position to drive that, and that's why IT has this great opportunity. IT can look at putting in place the information-sharing policies and driving those within the corporation to really help these organizations.
IT can evaluate what are the state-of-the-art solutions that will help people use that knowledge most effectively. CIOs can ask themselves, what are the needs in my organization? If mine is a global corporation, do I have people in English-speaking countries and, let's say, French-speaking and Japanese-speaking countries who are creating local documents that contain important technical content I want to be able to share across those regions? How do I do that? These are some of the problems that IT could be looking at. If I want to create an infrastructure to allow both passive and active collaboration within my organization, how can I support that? All these questions have a strong IT element to them as an enabling factor in helping an organization drive innovation efficiencies.
PwC: Are you sometimes concerned that you would be seen as part of the failed knowledge management wave of technology that seems to have come and gone?
JT: That isn't a concern. In the past waves of knowledge management, people were forced to create taxonomies of information that could then be published to user communities. The reality was that those taxonomies never worked. They weren't transparent to the user communities, as they were always developed by someone else. They didn't map to the way people thought, and they didn't map to the way people were having conversation and dialogue, so essentially past knowledge management efforts didn't give people access to information in a useful manner. One of the things our semantic technology enables is the ability to not think about that problem.
When people deploy Goldfire, they don't have to think about creating taxonomies or how to organize the information. Goldfire's semantic technology allows the data to essentially describe its own taxonomy. And, because it's coming directly from the content generated by the user community, that taxonomy is in their language. It's structured the way they think about information, and that makes information access seamless. Additionally, because the semantic technology is driven around the concept of answering people's questions, users typically never need to browse a taxonomy.
"[Companies] need to take the information that's locked up statically in different data stores and mobilize it. IT is in the perfect position to drive that."
PwC: All users now are accustomed to Internet search engines to look for information. Can you contrast how Goldfire would answer questions differently from how the popular Internet search engines would answer the same question?
JT: If we look at the search aspect, which is only one dimension of Goldfire, Internet search engines are optimized for a different audience. The vast majority of users are consumers and not necessarily product engineers or product marketing people, and so a lot of the usage of language and hence the influences that affect the ranking algorithms to deliver information are skewed in a different direction.
If I use my favorite Internet search engine and I say, for instance, I need to know about heavy metal, I can type in "heavy metal." I'm going to see a lot of information about rock-and-roll bands, but as an engineer, I may be more interested in specific elements and what their effects are and so on. It's an entirely different orientation. We have designed our solution for the users in business and for their innovation problems. The semantic search has been trained on tens of millions of technical and business documents.
On top of that, Goldfire is an innovation platform. It's not just a matter of using a search engine. Let's say you're an engineer and you've been told, "This product of ours has a bearing assembly that is failing prematurely. What's going on?" One of the first things you might want to do is ask, "What could be happening? Where should I look?" Maybe you'll go through a process of root-cause analysis. Often it can be a hit-or-miss issue, because you might not have the specific domain expertise. There are a lot of reasons why you might not think of everything.
You can ask Goldfire to participate in your root-cause analysis as a virtual subject matter expert. So when you have an issue in your analysis such as a seal that might fail, you can ask Goldfire, "What could be causing seal failure?" And you can do that without ever leaving the context of your root-cause analysis. If you say, "Help me understand what might be a potential cause of seal failure," then Goldfire will automatically present you with a classified and categorized list—based on global literature—of documented and understood causes of seal failure around all the different issues and categorize them according to their potential relevance to your problem. A simple search engine can't deliver that kind of capability.
¹ TRIZ, which originated in Russia and was created by Soviet inventor and science fiction writer Genrich Altshuller, is also known as the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. The theory includes a practical methodology, tool sets, a knowledge base, and model-based technology for generating new ideas and solutions for problem solving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ


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'An Inside Look' Upcoming Sessions Postponed
The Office of Research Development and Services will postpone two "An Inside Look" sessions originally.
Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration session, originally scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 28, and the Department of Defense session, originally scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4, will be rescheduled for January 2013. Dates and times will be announced via Research Network and through NewsLink.
"An Inside Look" is a series hosted by the Office of Research Development and Services to broadcast information about featured sponsors and share faculty knowledge and expertise.


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A SETAC interest group on post-registration studies and monitoring data for an evaluation of environmental effects of Plant Protection Products.
Monitoring and post-registration studies, in the context of the environmental impact of Plant Protection Products (PPP) or pesticides, investigate the fate and/or effects of PPP, i.e., active substances and/or their relevant degradation products in/on the environment, under realistic conditions for their use in crop protection. There is an increasing need for such investigations throughout Europe that is identified during the decision making process for PPP (Directive 91/414/EEC and its related updating Regulation 1107/2009/EC) either as an outcome of the risk assessment as a way to address the remaining uncertainties or as a means to check the efficacy of risk mitigation measures accompanying the placement on the market. Under Directive 2009/128/EC, monitoring data might be used in connection with relevant risk indicators.
In this respect, such studies are foreseen to help in the following areas:
The exchanges of views, experience and data sharing will facilitate the interpretation of the data generated and will help in extrapolating outcomes of monitoring and post registration studies among countries within Europe.
Note that the conduct of new post-registration studies does not fall under the remit of the group.
The main objective is to promote exchanges of views, experience and data in the area of environmental monitoring and post-registration studies related to the use of PPP in crop protection. The work is focused to those areas where pesticides are used. Consistency with approaches used under broader regulatory frameworks related to monitoring such as the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) will be ensured.
The group will thus gather scientists involved in the development and assessment of post-registration studies and monitoring, aimed at monitoring the presence of residues of PPP in environmental matrixes (soil, surface or ground water or air), and/or their effects on non target organisms and biodiversity, as well as scientists from regulatory offices in charge of the implementation of these studies alongside the placing of PPP on the market and their use.
The approaches promoted will involve the diverse levels of focus with which monitoring and environmental quality assessment may be implemented to address the problem formulation, i.e., if the purpose is to assess:
The group will promote the development of methodologies aimed at illustrating the different ways by which the data generated could feed risk assessment models and decision making, or even help in identifying efficient indicators of the quality of the environment. A particular emphasis will be given to links with developments in ecological modeling, linked to the SETAC Interest Group on Ecological Modeling (Memorisk), with the aim to identify the approaches that may generate reliable data for model parameterization and for extrapolation purposes.
The field of experience will cover all areas of the environmental assessment that is performed for PPP in a regulatory context, i.e. wildlife, terrestrial invertebrates such as honeybees, aquatic communities, but also the quality of soil and water compartments including ground water through measurements of the degree of contamination.
Exchanges of views will be promoted within the group and with scientists that may wish to consult the interest group in the context of the development, implementation and/or evaluation of post registration and monitoring studies. The experience gained within the group and with exchanges with end users is foreseen to improve the harmonization of the approaches undertaken and to facilitate extrapolation of data and study outcomes.
The group will finally ensure a wide communication of the outputs of its work, both on the outcome of the studies undertaken and on the methodologies developed, in the scientific community but also to the public audience through, e.g., dedicated pages on a website.
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Saturdays, May through October, experience the Land of Goshen Community Market! The Market is your best source for locally grown, fresh, naturally ripened farm products; tasty baked goods with locally grown ingredients; and wonderful art and gift ideas.The selection changes weekly so plan to visit more than once to fully appreciate the wide selection available. Live entertainment and free demonstrations add to the festive atmosphere. A safe, wholesome environment for kids, so bring the family and stop on by! From 8:00 a.m. till Noon.
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Press Release – Casa Goes Tax Free
Chesterfield's Casa Hotel, voted the fourth best hotel in the UK, is to cut out VAT on food and drink, in support of the National Tax Parity Day.
Taking place on Wednesday 25th September, all food and drinks in the hotel's Cocina Restaurant will be reduced by 7.5% for one day only, in a bid to highlight the benefit of a VAT reduction in the hospitality industry.
At present, all food and drink sold in the hospitality sector, including restaurants, bars and pubs, is subject to 20% VAT.
Steve Perez, owner of Casa Hotel, says:
"The higher tax in the hospitality sector pushes prices up, which therefore forces people to stay at home instead of enjoying eating out. By reducing the amount of VAT charged, we can make dining out a more affordable option. Casa Hotel's Cocina Restaurant is a beautiful venue with a stunning menu and we want everyone to be able to enjoy it; hopefully the Tax Parity Day will show the Government that this can become a reality."
To take advantage of the one-day tax reduction at Casa, reserve a table at Cocina Restaurant on 01246 245 990 between 6pm-11pm on Wednesday 25th September, or visit www.casahotels.co.uk.
For more information, or to speak to Steve Perez, please contact Peter Boucher on 01246 245986 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Casa Hotel is Chesterfield's only independently operated 4* (AA rated) hotel, with 100 luxury bedrooms including six suites, two of which offer balcony hot tubs, plus conferencing facilities and event services.


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Canadian students big winners on beach
KAZAN, Russia - Canada went a perfect 4-0 in beach volleyball at the 2013 Universiade on Tuesday.
Grant O'Gorman of Toronto and Samuel Pedlow of Barrie, Ont., won twice and the women's duos of Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto and Taylor Pischke of Winnipeg, and Rachel Cockrell of Winnipeg and Charlotte Sider of Toronto collected one win apiece.
All three Canadian squads are now in the double-elimination playoff round.
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BOSTON — NHL general managers endorsed the Competition Committee's recommendation to make visors mandatory for incoming NHL players, a move that one league executive believes could eliminate fighting over time.
GMs like requiring all first-year players to wear visors, but they're working out details on what will happen when young tough guys want to fight. The current rule is that a player gets an extra two minutes for instigating a fight while wearing a face shield.
NHL: Red Wings arena moves closer to reality
No one wants fighters to take off their helmets because of the potential of serious injury should they hit their head on the ice in a fall.
"You are probably going to get to the eventual answer it will reduce or get rid of fighting," said NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell. "Is that a bad thing or a good thing?"
If the Board of Governors passes the rule at its June 27 meeting, any player with 25 or fewer NHL games would be required to wear a visor next season.
"I see it as we were taking steps to making the game safer," said Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero. "I don't have a crystal ball for five or 10 years down the road."
Visors are worn in the American Hockey League and Canadian Hockey League, and players still fight in those leagues. One thought is fighters will swing away — visors or not.
"It's not like hitting a car windshield," said Edmonton Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish. "There will be fighting."
The GMs also endorsed trying hybrid icing in the preseason, with the idea that it will be used in the regular season if the players like it. Under the rule, icing is called if the defenseman beats the forward to the faceoff dot, instead of the goal line.
"Essentially, it is meant to eliminate guys going full speed into the end boards," said NHL Players' Association official Mathieu Schneider.
He said there was some discussion on diving and embellishment.
"We are trying to do something," Schneider said, "whether it's a list in the dressing room or educating the guys more that we know this is going on and we aren't happy with it."
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Voters Tuesday in parts of Hampden and Hampshire counties will narrow the field in the special election to replace former state Sen. Mike Knapik.
Knapik left the legislature in early August to take a better paying job at Westfield State University. The Republican lawmaker's departure thinned GOP ranks in the Senate to just three.
There are two Republicans on the ballot Tuesday vying for the party's nomination: Donald Humason, a six-term state representative who – for a long time – worked as an aide to Knapik; and Mike Franco, an investigator with the Holyoke veteran services office who's run – unsuccessfully – in at least five other elections, usually for Governor's Council.
The Democrats running are Holyoke City Councilor David Bartley and longtime Easthampton Mayor Michael Tautznik.
The winners of the primaries face each other on November 5th.


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1. When you open your .png quick page, there should be a "checkerboard" background where the photos will go. This is the transparent part of the .png file and it is where you will be sliding your photo in.
5. Your photo will now be on top of your quick page. Go to your layers palette and place your cursor on your photo layer and drag it down so that it is underneath your quick page layer. Your layers palette should now appear as follows:
6. Making sure your "Move"tool is selected and your photo layer is selected, place your cursor on the corner of your photo and drag it in or out to resize your photo so that it fits inside the frame. (**Note: Holding down your shift key while resizing your photo will ensure that it maintains the proper proportions.)
7. Repeat this step for each of your photos.
8. Now you are ready to type your text. Choose your "TEXT" tool from the tools menu. (**Note: clicking the letter "T" on your keyboard will also activate this tool.)
9. Once your text tool is activated, make sure your quick page layer is selected. Choose your desired font and font size. Then simply click where you would like to type your text and begin typing.
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