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...planning to slip below the lofty codified “standards” for admitting basketball players. It can’t. The Ivy League has a strict system based on a formula known as the Academic Index to govern the admission of athletes. An individual’s AI score is computed on a 240-point scale, with 80 points apiece based on SAT I scores, SAT II scores, and class rank, the most malleable of the categories. The guidelines of the Academic Index mandate that all admitted students have an AI score of at least 171, and that...
...Amsterdam exhibition presents 250 objects from four archaeological sites - Tepe Fullol, Ai Khanum, Tillya-tepe, and Begram - dating back as far as 4,000 years ago. It includes gold and silver vases from the Bactrian Bronze Age; a Greek limestone pillar and sundials from the 2nd century BC; Indian-related ivory figures and furniture from the 1st century AD; and a spectacular gold collection from Tillya-Tepe that includes bracelets, hearts, a crown, and even a pair of golden shoe soles meant to convey an aristocrat's disinclination for walking...
...first corporate board Walesa, 58, has agreed to join is that of NuTech Solutions, a closely held company founded three years ago in Charlotte, N.C., by a pair of Polish immigrants. NuTech creates software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency in its clients' manufacturing, distribution and customer service. NuTech software allows Ford to find profitable new ways to sell vehicles that are coming off leases. It helps Unilever target inefficiencies in its supply chain. And it is being used to detect check and credit-card fraud at Bank of America--whose legendary former CEO, Hugh McColl, also serves...
Most software firms, of course, promise to make their clients more efficient. But NuTech claims that its products--developed by using AI technologies such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing--can monitor each player continuously in a supply-and-demand equation, consider the millions of ways each player's decisions impact the business and then suggest the best ways to fine-tune a client's operations. "All our products have the common characteristic of increasing profits and decreasing costs," especially in the targeting of prospective customers, says Matthew Michalewicz, 26, NuTech's chief executive...
...Research, a technology research company based in Boston, estimates that 40% of all new manufacturing-related software already incorporates some form of AI. "Everyone is interested in analyzing large bodies of data to determine what is likely to happen," says McColl, the former Bank of America CEO. "NuTech has figured out how to do that." McColl joined NuTech's board in September and has invested in the company. He and Walesa will receive stock options that could prove valuable if the company successfully goes public. Michalewicz says the 126-employee firm has almost 100 customers and is turning a small...