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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...
...peddle the approved drugs to physicians. These steps were typically conducted in isolation, so developers would sometimes find out too late that a candidate drug had terrible side effects or could not be mass-produced economically. Or marketers would discover late in the process that there wasn't much demand for the new drug they would soon be asked to sell...
...makes great decisions,” Lin says.But guards aren’t the only new faces on the Harvard roster. Freshmen Adam Demuyakor and Kyle Fitzgerald, both measuring in at 6’7, will reinforce an already strong frontcourt with the quickness and athleticism that Amaker will demand of his players this year.“With Kyle and Adam, they’re pushing me every day at practice,” junior forward Evan Harris says. “Adam came in and starting beating up on me, hitting in the blocks, and that was great...
...Drishtee has been expanding demand by selling insurance policies, subscriptions to websites that match would-be grooms with prospective brides, classified advertising, an online health-advice service and even passport photos printed as you wait. The company has 1,019 kiosks in nine states and is aiming to open an additional 3,000 in the next two years. Each kiosk is run by an entrepreneur from the village, typically a man in his mid-20s. The cost of a kiosk package--computer, digital camera, Internet connection over a cell-phone line, and printer--is $1,500, which is paid back...
...David A. Andelman ’66 is still working on his senior thesis. No, he’s not one of those students whose expected date of graduation is “20??.” While other students were storming University Hall and staging sit-ins to demand change for the future, this Harvard undergraduate was more interested in the past than either the present or the future. When Andelman decided to write his honors thesis on “Massachusetts Public Opinion and the Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles,” he must have known...