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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Technology: Where Lech Walesa Does Tech | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

Sensors--devices that detect environmental changes--have been around forever in analog form. Traditional thermometers, for instance, use mercury that rises and falls as it responds to temperature changes. More recently, in the information-technology age, network-linked digital sensors are starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARK CROSIER: The Shape Of Things To Come | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard’s course evaluation guide heralds even bigger changes. According to the Registrar’s cards, the new Q will allow Graduate School of Arts and Sciences courses to be evaluated, and professors will be able to add their own customized questions to the evaluation form to get more specific feedback. Administrators in charge of the Q did not respond to requests for comment.While these changes are improvements, however small, the present reinvention of the course evaluation system is a missed opportunity to make more meaningful alterations to the culture of feedback and pedagogical improvement at Harvard...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Goodbye CUE, Hello Q | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...form crews to critique each other and experiment with new sounds. It’s a dying tradition, a remnant of the early days...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The All-Spin Zone | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...been lurking in Western Europe for sometime now. In a way, it's encouraging, as the more time that passes without it mutating suggests it might not be able to mutate into a form that could cause a pandemic. But influenza is so unpredictable it's impossible to say for sure what will happen with this strain," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Bird Flu Outbreak Is Deadly Strain | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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