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LONDON, August 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --LiveBridge is available as an extension to publishers' existing news apps, try it on the "Digital Publishing News" iPhone app with your adsLiveBridge utilizes content recognition software to make print advertising interactive on smart-phones/tablets, enabling advertisers to interact with customers, and providing publishers with an advertising differentiator to drive a premium in print advertising rates.迷你倉沙田LiveBridge is available as an extension to publishers' existing news apps on iOS or Android. Unlike other Print engagement software, LiveBridge is a complete solution ready now, geared for providing publishers with premium on print advertising, with easy to use backend campaigns building software and consumers loyalty schemes.LiveBridge brings an entertainment edge to ad campaigns by making any print ad INTERACTIVE with games, quizzes, and videos and REWARDING users afterwards for their participating with redeemed points.The technology embeds EASY Campaign Building along with REPORTING system for advertisers on consumers' data. You can try it now on by downloading the 'Digital Publishing News' [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/digital-publishing-news-for/id681821748?mt=8 ] App for iPhone from the Apple App store.To send your Ads for trials, and for more information email to:lee@rewardisement.com or go to the Rewardisement Web site. [.rewardisement.com ]To find the latest mobile technology and digital publishing news:Download our iPad App "DigitalPublishingNews [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knowledgeview-connect/id493539412 ]"Download our iPhone App "Digital Publishing [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/digital-publishing-news-for/id681821748?mt=8 ] News"Like our Facebook page "KnowledgeViewLtd. [.facebook.com/pages/KnowledgeView-Ltd/430812015331 ]"Follow us on Twitter "KnowledgeViewLtd. [https://twitter.com/KnowledgeView ]"Visit our mobile site @ "mobile.knowledgeView.info [mobile.knowledgeview.info ]"Download our Android mobile App "KnowledgeView Android mobile App [cl迷你倉價錢ck.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=9767452&msgid=35495&act=NFUP&c=1245059&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.knowledgeview.android.mobile.kv%26feature%3Dsearch_result ] "About KnowledgeViewKnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and MENA regional office in Beirut.KnowledgeView has a unique combination of industry leaders on its Board and powerful publishing technology used by leading media players globally. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems, with over forty media companies and 5000 journalists using its Publish live systems. KnowledgeView has also established a leading position in mobile apps development on the iPad, iPhone, Android tablet and Web-mobile platforms.KnowledgeView's client base extends over four continents with such names as Dow Jones Newswire, CNN, Geopolitical Information Service, Australian Associated Press, Qatar News Agency, Saudi Research and Marketing Group, Abu Dhabi Media, MarocSoir Group and Deloitte &Touche, to name a few.Publish live suite of products and services enables publishers and news groups to create regional or thematic communities around news, deriving maximum revenues from subscriptions and advertising and extend their reach through easy multi-publishing to paper, Web, mobile iPhone and iPad as well as the Android platform and social networks.KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser, the heart of 'Publish live Newsroom', is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition and classification, setting the standard for the next generation of news management systems. RAPID Browser allows media groups to setup their own cloud-based Content Hubs for extending their reach into their communities and generating revenues from advertising and subscriptions.For more information please contact KnowledgeView Marketing:T: +961-1345178 E: marketing@knowledgeview.co.uk Website: .Rewardisement.comKnowledgeView ltd.迷你倉庫

Source: Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.迷你倉沙田Aug. 23--PEORIA -- Two police union officials have been stripped of their authority to conduct new business on their members' behalf for publicly speaking in support of the police chief after being warned not to do so.Peoria Police Benevolent Association Unit 27 President Troy Skaggs and Vice President Kevin Slavens appeared before the City Council on Aug. 13 during a public comment session where several speakers voiced support of Chief Steve Settingsgaard ahead of an executive session scheduled to discuss personnel issues in the Police Department."Because of the way these two executive board members introduced themselves, there is a very high possibility comments made by these two individuals may have been construed as being official comments issued by the PPBA executive board," read a statement from the board sent to city officials Wednesday.In his appearance in council chambers, Slavens called Settingsgaard a "solid and fair administrator" and noted that he has been at the Peoria Police Department for 12 years and served on the PPBA executive board for nine years. A message on Slavens city-issued cellphone said his voicemail could not accept new messages, and he could not be reached for comment Thursday.Skaggs called Settingsgaard "a good man" who has "led by example" in his comments to the council. Skaggs did not return a call seeking comment Thursday.The men were questioned after their迷你倉價錢comments by 2nd District City Councilman Chuck Grayeb about whether they had the authorization of their membership to make the statements. No clear answer was offered.The email sent to city officials Wednesday offered an unambiguous response."We feel it needs to be pointed out, comments made by these two executive board members were of their own volition and made as individuals and not meant to be taken as comments representative of the PPBA executive board," the statement read.It continued: "Because the majority of the PPBA executive board cautioned against this appearance prior to its occurrence, an internal PPBA executive board motion was made to place all new business under the responsibility of remaining PPBA executive board members."Skaggs and Slavens will be allowed to serve out the rest of their terms through November but can only complete "previously initiated matters."The statement was sent from the email address of Officer Eric Ellis, who serves on the executive board and will take over as president of the union in November. He did not return a call seeking comment Thursday.The email noted one other detail about the union action: "This motion passed unanimously."Matt Buedel can be reached at 686-3154 or mbuedel@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @JournoBuedel.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) Visit the Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) at .PJStar.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉庫

LONDON, August 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --LiveBridge is available as an extension to publishers' existing news apps, try it on the "Digital Publishing News" iPhone app with your adsLiveBridge utilizes content recognition software to make print advertising interactive on smart-phones/tablets, enabling advertisers to interact with customers, and providing publishers with an advertising differentiator to drive a premium in print advertising rates.存倉LiveBridge is available as an extension to publishers' existing news apps on iOS or Android. Unlike other Print engagement software, LiveBridge is a complete solution ready now, geared for providing publishers with premium on print advertising, with easy to use backend campaigns building software and consumers loyalty schemes.LiveBridge brings an entertainment edge to ad campaigns by making any print ad INTERACTIVE with games, quizzes, and videos and REWARDING users afterwards for their participating with redeemed points.The technology embeds EASY Campaign Building along with REPORTING system for advertisers on consumers' data. You can try it now on by downloading the 'Digital Publishing News' [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/digital-publishing-news-for/id681821748?mt=8 ] App for iPhone from the Apple App store.To send your Ads for trials, and for more information email to:lee@rewardisement.com or go to the Rewardisement Web site. [.rewardisement.com ]To find the latest mobile technology and digital publishing news:Download our iPad App "DigitalPublishingNews [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knowledgeview-connect/id493539412 ]"Download our iPhone App "Digital Publishing [https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/digital-publishing-news-for/id681821748?mt=8 ] News"Like our Facebook page "KnowledgeViewLtd. [.facebook.com/pages/KnowledgeView-Ltd/430812015331 ]"Follow us on Twitter "KnowledgeViewLtd. [https://twitter.com/KnowledgeView ]"Visit our mobile site @ "mobile.knowledgeView.info [mobile.knowledgeview.info ]"Download our Android mobile App "KnowledgeView Android mobile App [cl自存倉ck.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=9767452&msgid=35495&act=NFUP&c=1245059&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.knowledgeview.android.mobile.kv%26feature%3Dsearch_result ] "About KnowledgeViewKnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and MENA regional office in Beirut.KnowledgeView has a unique combination of industry leaders on its Board and powerful publishing technology used by leading media players globally. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems, with over forty media companies and 5000 journalists using its Publish live systems. KnowledgeView has also established a leading position in mobile apps development on the iPad, iPhone, Android tablet and Web-mobile platforms.KnowledgeView's client base extends over four continents with such names as Dow Jones Newswire, CNN, Geopolitical Information Service, Australian Associated Press, Qatar News Agency, Saudi Research and Marketing Group, Abu Dhabi Media, MarocSoir Group and Deloitte &Touche, to name a few.Publish live suite of products and services enables publishers and news groups to create regional or thematic communities around news, deriving maximum revenues from subscriptions and advertising and extend their reach through easy multi-publishing to paper, Web, mobile iPhone and iPad as well as the Android platform and social networks.KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser, the heart of 'Publish live Newsroom', is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition and classification, setting the standard for the next generation of news management systems. RAPID Browser allows media groups to setup their own cloud-based Content Hubs for extending their reach into their communities and generating revenues from advertising and subscriptions.For more information please contact KnowledgeView Marketing:T: +961-1345178 E: marketing@knowledgeview.co.uk Website: .Rewardisement.comKnowledgeView ltd.迷你倉新蒲崗

Community Care Fund Chairman Law Chi-kwong reviews the poverty situation in Hong Kong, comparing it to a few years ago and assessing progress by the Commission on Poverty.迷你倉沙田 He praises the commission, calling it a useful, flexible, cross-policy platform that brings together wisdom from non-government organizations and the business sector to alleviate poverty. Joseph Li spoke to him. Law Chi-kwong says poverty in Hong Kong is growing worse, underscoring the need to re-establish the Commission on Poverty, of which he now sits as a member. Law, who served on the commission’s predecessor from 2005 to 2007, also chairs the commission’s Community Care Fund Task Force. To date, the Community Care Fund (CCF) has spent over HK$2.5 billion on 19 assistance programs designed to help underprivileged people who fall beyond the scope of social welfare programs and have slipped through the social safety net. They fall into several categories such as, elderly, disabled, single-parents, patients with chronic illnesses, new arrivals and ethnic minorities. Pilot schemes Some social service programs start out as pilot schemes before being transferred to the regular programs. Often implementation hinges on the availability of resources. Although the new poverty commission has been working for less than a year, Law says it is functioning well. “The poverty situation is worse than the period between 2005 and 2007,” Law said in an exclusive interview with China Daily. “Although the situation eased a little with the implementation of the minimum wage in 2011, statistics over the past two years indicate signs of deterioration.” The international benchmark for measuring “poverty” is an income level less than half of the median household income. He estimates nearly 1.3 million people live below the poverty line. Even when the different types of social welfare are brought into consideration, that number is still as high as one million. Law attributes poverty to deep-rooted economic and social problems. He also contends that certain government policies are not conducive to alleviating poverty and lifting people above the poverty line. So it is a good thing to have a new forum to discuss problems, identify the causes of poverty and seek solutions among representatives of government departments, non-government organizations and the business sector. “At the meetings, it is sometimes good to put pressure on government departments because it is not easy for these departments to think and work alone,” he laughed, adding, “Media opinions are a kind of pressure but we give the government departments more direct pressure when we see them face to face.” He cited an example. At a recent meeting of the CCF Task Force, discussions focused on financial assistance to seriously disa迷你倉價錢led persons — assistance that would allow them to rent equipment, buy consumables and pay living expenses. The Social Welfare Department objected to paying additional money for living expenses to people aged over 60, since those people already are covered by existing services. Members then asked the department to determine the number of people receiving benefit and the estimated expenditure before taking the next step. “The officials showed signs of reluctance because extra work was entailed,” Law said. “Members asked if three months were enough time to find the answer and at first refused to commit. In the end, they spent only a week to trace the relevant information.” Business sector’s role Law also highlighted the business sector’s role in the fight against poverty. Apart from giving donations, enterprises have become more deeply involved in organizing activities, deploying staff to act as volunteers and mentors for internship programs. They also arrange training, visits and placement opportunities for children/young people from low-income families. In particular, he heralded the participation of businessmen Lau Ming-wai and Michael Tien Puk-sun, which, Law said, provided a kind of impetus to the Commission on Poverty. “Lau Ming-wai is very zealous with his work. Since he looks at problems from the business sector’s point of view, his input can help make our policies more complete. Even though he does not know the welfare issues well, the way he asks questions brings new dynamics to our work. The thinking of the government and NGOs is more complicated. The business sector’s thinking is simpler and more direct as they always emphasize the effectiveness of the relief measures and whether the measures can help the people. “Take the example of cash assistance to tenants living in sub-divided units in industrial buildings, Michael Tien is adamant that the government should assist them. His target is very clear that you (the government) must get the job done once the target is identified,” Law said with enthusiasm. Some launched projects ． School lunch subsidy ． Subsidy for social security recipients living in rented private housing ． Subsidy for elderly tenants in private housing ． Subsidy for owners’ corporations of old buildings ． Elderly dental assistance Awaiting launch ． Savings scheme for unemployed social security recipients ． Subsidies for families and caregivers of elderly The participation of people from the business sector provides a kind of impetus to the Commission on Poverty because they emphasize the effectiveness of the relief measures and if the measures can help the people.” If the government wants to experiment whether certain services are worth and viable, the CCF can provide flexibility and extra resources.”迷你倉庫

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Source: Tulsa World, Okla.儲存倉Aug. 22--In just a few weeks, the Tulsa City-County Library will relocate its genealogy collection from its 5,500-square-foot branch at 29th Street and Harvard Avenue to the second floor of the Hardesty Regional Library in south Tulsa, a move that has upset some of the Genealogy Center's users.Lloyd Hobbs said he doesn't see the need for the move."It's a very convenient, nice, clean location," said Hobbs, who has visited genealogy collections across the country. "Ours is very good. Everyone down there, including the volunteers, are very good."Judith Jaeger is one of those volunteers."It was planned and studied and didn't involve any of the users," she said of the move. "The library has made a lot of progress. It doesn't show the same progress as other parts of the library."Library administrators say the move will actually be an improvement for the collection because it will mean more space, more amenities and more hours of operation."The building is tiny, and the collection grows and grows. We're constricted by the building," library CEO Gary Shaffer said."We did have customers complain about the size of the building, the size of the meeting room. The (current) building is open 42 hours a week. We're going from 42 hours a week to 69 hours a week."The Genealogy Center will close on Tuesday, then the center's staff will begin packing and preparing for the collection's move to Hardesty, 8316 E. 93rd St.The materials will move Sept. 3 and 4 and should be available to the public again beginning Sept. 5.Mary Barnes, who works on her family's genealogy in her spare time, is excited about the change."People who do genealogy love the past, and we don't like change," Barnes said, but she added that she sees the opportunities at the Hardesty location. "I showed (other genealogists) the second floor. I said: 'Look at the space. Look at the computers.'"Most of the people are retired. I'm not. I can't come in at 3 p.m迷你倉沙田 every day. Saturday I'm running errands. Now I can go in at 5 p.m. at night. I can go on Sunday."Hobbs and Jaeger said they worry about the collection's security."We (will) go to open stacks at Hardesty," Jaeger said, although typically genealogy collections housed at library branches are kept in separate areas behind closed doors. "I don't think we're asking anything extraordinary."Hobbs said his biggest concern is possible damage to the collection's books and records."I'm afraid people are going to run amok through there," he said.Shaffer said in the new space, the collection will be able to grow and will be housed on its own and will be secure. All Genealogy Center staff members also will move to the Hardesty location."We feel genealogy is incredibly important and an important service. We're placing it somewhere where it can expand," he said.The current Genealogy Center building, which is owned by the Harmon Foundation, will become the new home for the library's adult literacy, outreach and volunteer programs."It makes sense to give them a space," Shaffer said. "Part of it is giving them a home, but we wouldn't be doing it if genealogy wasn't outgrowing its home."Jaeger and Hobbs said that despite their objections, they'll likely continue to use the genealogy collection after it moves to Hardesty."I'd use it but I'd still have a bitter taste in my mouth that it never should have happened," Hobbs said.Jaeger said some genealogists will make the transition to the new site, but others won't.Barnes is looking forward to the change."All the people who use Hardesty for the children's area, they'll wander up," she said. "We have an opportunity to grow; we have an opportunity to have a new audience. I think it's a win for everybody."Sara Plummer 918-581-8465sara.plummer@tulsaworld.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) Visit Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) at .tulsaworld.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉價錢

There’s a revolution taking place, a veritable robot uprising right here in Hong Kong.儲存 Those in the vanguard of that revolution believe, before the robot becomes cleverer and more accomplished than humans, it must have sensitivity training so that it may empathize with our human failings. Timothy Chui writes. Broken pipes growing out of decaying masonry, surrounding the cold, towering blue glass facade of Mong Kok’s Langham Place, emit a quintessentially cyberpunk aura when it rains. Ridley Scott, the director of Bladerunner, took his inspiration for a robot permeated dystopian urban landscape from right here in Hong Kong, not far from where many believe a real robot revolution is taking shape. While Bladerunner’s Mong Kok-inspired, fictional Los Angeles of the near future was the birthplace of mass-produced humanoid robots, Ben Goertzel, an American expert on artificial intelligence, predicts the real world robot revolution will begin here. Goertzel is one of a four-man team building a humanoid robot for the mass market. Robots that can chop onions, whip up a stir fry, take out the trash, get the mail, massage your feet, bark like a dog and balance your books, as long as they don’t break down. From a height overlooking the world’s most densely populated district, multi-colored umbrellas mix, mingle and collide in kaleidoscopic swirl, heated exhaust and vapors laden with the stink of the city are drawn skyward into the gloomy clouds. It’s suffocating. Nature’s light shines but dimly here. Soggy pedestrians deprived of illumination turn ambivalently to the giant outdoor televisions and jockeying neon signs. “Hong Kong’s hybridization of Chinese and Western cultures favors more open communication,” Goertzel tells China Daily. “On the mainland, I think it’s harder to get junior team members to share their creative, half-baked ideas with their supervisors or colleagues; whereas in Hong Kong it’s easier. I think it’s also true that mainland Chinese culture is a bit more ‘closed’ in terms of openly communicating ideas than Western culture.” Guangdong likely He emphasizes, however, “if cheap, scalable robot manufacturing is going to happen anywhere, it’s very likely to happen in Guangdong.” There is plenty of AI research underway on the mainland. Goertzel is chairman of the board of the Open Cog project, which allows developers to draw from a global bank of free-to-share algorithms that attempt to give robots the powers of human thoughts, which after all originate with electrochemical signals in the brain. In his present endeavor, Goertzel, slightly disheveled, bespectacled and looking like the technical phenom who finished secondary school before puberty and got his PhD at 23, analyzes financial markets — using artificial intelligence. With that goes an impressive sounding title: chief science officer of financial prediction for Aidiyia Holdings. Goertzel sees it like this: highly specialized robots have been the mainstay of robotics development in the US and Japan for years. He thinks robots are ready for the mainstream, but getting there will demand a carefully balanced ecosystem: creative critical mass, coupled with a viable production base, and an available market. The kind of collective creative brainstorming and collaboration which often leads to breakthroughs is considerably easier to get going in Hong Kong, he said. Hong Kong has “an atmosphere where the team members are willing to share their half-baked ideas with each other and openly brainstorm. This may partly be because in Hong Kong my teams have been more international, mixing Hongkongese, Western and mainland Chinese members; and the Western team members have brought with them more of an anything-goes American startup-style mentality,” he said. Joining Goertzel is Mark Tilden — inventor of the highest selling, mass market consumer robots ever. Caregiver robots Tilden, a graduate of Canada’s University of Waterloo, envisages robots as caregivers, capable of housecleaning, preparing meals and dispensing medication, “a robot you could give your mother to look after her into her dotage,” and that will allow her “to live with dignity, to stay at home without the constant requirement of someone coming to deliver three or four meals a day.” Prior to setting up a Sai Kung lab where he tinkers during the cooler months, he was the founder of a divergent school of robotics thought — a keep-it-simple, bottom-up evolution of robotics versus the advanced prototypes unfit for mass marketing approach taken everywhere else. He built his first robot when he was three, designed robots that sold more than 22 million units and built prototypes for the US military and NASA which contributed to the development of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers. The team plans to set up an advanced robotics lab here in Hong Kong. “The goal is to get a large space where we can start to develop grown-up robot products for mass market applications,” Tilden said. By designing in Hong Kong and churning them out in China, Tilden’s robots “are 10 times less expensive to manufacture and distribute on average than conventional machines. I’ve sold over 20 million or so in the past decade, so the customers must like the prices,” he said. The third aspiring leader of the coming robotics revolution is David Hanson. He builds robots with character, robots which eventually will empathize with human users, robots able to see faces, show facial expression, make eye contact, and like HAL 9000 in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, empathize with their human operators, engage in speech, model how a person is feeling and build relationships. Hanson’s field is the development of socially intelligent robots capable of human interaction, robots that one day will be able to take their place in the human family. Hanson’s work focuses on robots’ perception of and by people. A robot’s face is its natural interface and the more in新蒲崗迷你倉uitive it is for people to interact with the easier they are to use and more accepted they become. Human-robot interation Hanson is the creator of the most realistic humanoid robot faces ever. He will develop the basic aspects of human to robot interaction — the automoton’s facial expressions and conversational abilities. Hanson, who is moving to Hong Kong this fall, has already produced robots bearing the likeness and manner of Albert Einstein and American science fiction writer Philip K Dick, who penned Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, upon which the film Bladerunner was based. Mark Tilden says the technology is already here. What remains is to figure out how to make it a part of daily life. Goertzel remembers a time “when a large percentage of the population was uncomfortable with electronic musical instruments — they sounded unnatural, etc,” he said. “By and large the strange feeling folks got from electronic instruments is a thing of the past, and they’re now considered an ordinary part of life, and certainly able to evoke the full range of emotional and musical experiences in the listener. The same sort of thing will happen with humanoid robots,” he said. Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Gino Yu is the fourth member of the team. Founder of Hong Kong’s Digital Entertainment Association 12 years ago, he helps head PolyU’s robotics lab and works with Goertzel on OpenCog. “Robots provide a user interface and we’re born hard-wired to look at faces and track them. Looking at a screen is quite uni-dimensional. If a robot has a face and eyes and is looking at you, nodding every now and then, it’s a different experience,” he said. Emotional links to robots have been proven beyond those for fictional characters such as R2-D2 or Wall-E. Volunteers reported negative emotions when watching robots being abused in a study led by Astrid Rosenthal-von der P�tten of University of Duisburg Essen. “Hong Kong is already the consumer robot capital of the world. Japan has made a handful of robots with short battery life while millions of units of consumer robots developed in Hong Kong have already been shipped. We’re already the leader of the world with our more user-centered approach, it’s a matter of maintaining that lead,” Yu said. The team plans to set up an advanced robotics lab here in Hong Kong. “The goal is to get a large space where we can start to develop grown-up robot products for mass market applications,” Tilden said. By designing in Hong Kong and churning them out in China, Tilden’s robots “are 10 times less expensive to manufacture and distribute on average than conventional machines. I’ve sold over 20 million or so in the past decade, so the customers must like the prices,” he said. The third aspiring leader of the coming robotics revolution is David Hanson. He builds robots with character, robots which eventually will empathize with human users, robots able to see faces, show facial expression, make eye contact, and like HAL 9000 in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, empathize with their human operators, engage in speech, model how a person is feeling and build relationships. Hanson’s field is the development of socially intelligent robots capable of human interaction, robots that one day will be able to take their place in the human family. Hanson’s work focuses on robots’ perception of and by people. A robot’s face is its natural interface and the more intuitive it is for people to interact with the easier they are to use and more accepted they become. Human-robot interaction Hanson is the creator of the most realistic humanoid robot faces ever. He will develop the basic aspects of human to robot interaction — the automoton’s facial expressions and conversational abilities. Hanson, who is moving to Hong Kong this fall, has already produced robots bearing the likeness and manner of Albert Einstein and American science fiction writer Philip K Dick, who penned Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, upon which the film Bladerunner was based. Mark Tilden says the technology is already here. What remains is to figure out how to make it a part of daily life. Goertzel remembers a time “when a large percentage of the population was uncomfortable with electronic musical instruments — they sounded unnatural, etc,” he said. “By and large the strange feeling folks got from electronic instruments is a thing of the past, and they’re now considered an ordinary part of life, and certainly able to evoke the full range of emotional and musical experiences in the listener. The same sort of thing will happen with humanoid robots,” he said. Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Gino Yu is the fourth member of the team. Founder of Hong Kong’s Digital Entertainment Association 12 years ago, he helps head PolyU’s robotics lab and works with Goertzel on OpenCog. “Robots provide a user interface and we’re born hard-wired to look at faces and track them. Looking at a screen is quite uni-dimensional. If a robot has a face and eyes and is looking at you, nodding every now and then, it’s a different experience,” he said. Emotional links to robots have been proven beyond those for fictional characters such as R2-D2 or Wall-E. Volunteers reported negative emotions when watching robots being abused in a study led by Astrid Rosenthal-von der P�tten of University of Duisburg Essen. “Hong Kong is already the consumer robot capital of the world. Japan has made a handful of robots with short battery life while millions of units of consumer robots developed in Hong Kong have already been shipped. We’re already the leader of the world with our more user-centered approach, it’s a matter of maintaining that lead,” Yu said. By and large the strange feeling folks got from electronic instruments is a thing of the past, and they’re now considered an ordinary part of life.” ben goertzel american expert on artificial intelligence Contact the writer at timothy@chinadailyhk.commini storage

Source: Chicago TribuneAug.迷你倉 22--Nara Logics Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence technology recommends local restaurants to consumers, has expanded its platform to hotels in 50 cities, including Chicago.Cambridge, Mass.-based Nara, which describes itself as "a computational neuroscience company," has a Web and iPhone app where consumers can click thumbs-up or thumbs-down on local restaurants. As the company gathers more "digital DNA" from users, its technology maps that information against millions of data points on restaurants -- cuisine, hours, reviews and other characteristics. Nara's algorithm then produces a restaurant recommendation.The company is applying this technology to hotels and has partnered with Expedia so travelers can book directly through the site, with Nara and Expedia sharing revenue from those bookings. More than 12,000 hotels are available through the Expedia network.On the restaurant side, Nara has a partnership with Chicago-based GrubHub Seamless that allows diners to order food online from recommended restaurants. Nara first linked up with GrubHub in December 2012, before the Chicago company's August merger with New York-based Seamless. Nara文件倉also partners with restaurant reservation site OpenTable.Nara's creators are neuroscientists and computer scientists, and its chief technology officer, Nathan Wilson, has a doctorate in brain and cognitive sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If using this kind of scientific muscle to recommend restaurants and hotels sounds like asking Beethoven to compose radio jingles, it's because Nara is treating these consumer-oriented applications as "proof of concept" for much larger ambitions."Because what we're doing is so intense and so transformative to the Web and the Internet, we just needed to start somewhere," said Chief Executive Tom Copeman. He added: "We're seeing multiple opportunities, way beyond consumer lifestyle categories, to be solving this problem with search and relevance."Last month, Nara agreed to license its technology to Asian telecom giant Singapore Telecommunications, and Copeman said the company is looking into health care and financial services applications.wawong@tribune.com -- Twitter @VelocityWongCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Chicago Tribune Visit the Chicago Tribune at .chicagotribune.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug.自存倉 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Economic, technical and clinical forces from around the world are presenting formidable challenges to the radiology department's productivity. As the radiologist's role and importance in healthcare evolves, it becomes imperative to channel R&D efforts towards addressing critical unmet market needs.A GE sponsored Frost & Sullivan whitepaper identifies the very innate challenges that radiologists in Australia encounter in their day-to-day professional lives and how these challenges impact their performance. This Frost & Sullivan briefing at 11:00 hrs SGT (+8 GMT) on 29 April 2013 will present a comprehensive analysis of the insights on the future direction of medical imaging which will be beneficial to healthcare providers and device manufacturers.Frost & Sullivan analysts say, "Radiologists today are getting crushed by a combination of economic, technical and clinical forces that present formidable challenges to their productivity. Frost & Sullivan finds that data fragmentation and inefficient information management are the most brutal obstacles for Australian radiologists, who seek intelligent imaging solutions that will drive the next wave of healthcare transformation."This analyst briefing will examine the major inadequacies in imaging workflow solutions that hamper the radiology department's productivity, focus on the innate market needs that need to be addressed through sensible investment in R&D and discuss visionary imaging solutions that will guide future technological advances.A presentation by Senior Vice President, Healthcare, Asia-Pacific Rhenu Bhuller and Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Mark Dougan will be followed by a Q&A session in which attendees can submit questions for real-time, on-air responses.This briefing will be of interest to medical imaging companies as well as healthcare personnel who are either decision makers in radiology departments or interested in imaging system design.To register for this interactive webinar, please email Carrie Low, Corporate Communicati迷你倉新蒲崗ns, at carrie.low@frost.com, with your full name, job title, company name, telephone number, company email address, company website, as well as city, state and country.About Frost & SullivanFrost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today's market participants.Our "Growth Partnership" supports clients by addressing these opportunities and incorporating two key elements driving visionary innovation: The Integrated Value Proposition and The Partnership Infrastructure.-- The Integrated Value Proposition provides support to our clients throughout all phases of their journey to visionary innovation including: research, analysis, strategy, vision, innovation and implementation. -- The Partnership Infrastructure is entirely unique as it constructs the foundation upon which visionary innovation becomes possible. This includes our 360 degree research, comprehensive industry coverage, career best practices as well as our global footprint of more than 40 offices.For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Is your organization prepared for the next profound wave of industry convergence, disruptive technologies, increasing competitive intensity, Mega Trends, breakthrough best practices, changing customer dynamics and emerging economies?Contact Us: Start the discussionJoin Us: Join our communitySubscribe: Newsletter on "the next big thing" Register: Gain access to visionary innovationContact:Donna JeremiahCorporate Communications, Asia PacificP: +61 (02) 8247 8927F: +61 (02) 9252 8066E: djeremiah@frost.comCarrie LowCorporate Communications, Asia PacificP: +603 6204 5910E: carrie.low@frost.comMelissa TanCorporate Communications, Asia PacificP: +65 6890 0926E: melissa.tan@frost.comFrost & SullivanWeb site: .frost.com/迷你倉出租

據業內人士稱，迷你倉沙田刊發這則廣告的廣告主韓後品牌一貫風格就是“博出位”。從這個目的來看，這則節操碎了一地的廣告確實達到了廣告主出名的要求，在網絡上一片爆紅的“天下無三體”中，韓後悄然走紅，被廣為人知。然而，在這出由廣告主一手導演、某都市報刊出、引來無數網友猜測、討論的狗血劇爆紅背後，我們看到的是廣告主、廣告發佈商為追求利益最大化而無視道德底線、挑戰媒體責任的無畏。如果說，廣告主為追求出名而選擇惡俗是利益使然，那麼，該廣告的發佈商對惡俗廣告的無視和發佈則表現了媒體責任的缺失。在利迷你倉價錢和道德責任之間，廣告主和廣告商一致選擇了利益，節操蕩然無存。廣告主這種以惡俗博出位，將丑點做賣點的行為其實還折射了近年來社會上流行的一種逐丑心理，是一種不能“美名遠揚”，也要“臭名昭著”的投機心態，這種逐丑心理和行為，在迎合了某些民�的不健康趣味，為始作俑者帶來了經濟利益的同時，卻極大程度地影響了社會公序，宣揚了丑，傷害了美，帶來了極大的負面效應。“天下無三”是一出沒有底線的鬧劇，在這一鬧劇中，廣告主出了名、發佈商獲了利，民�滿足了八卦心理，唯獨節操碎了一地。(據長江時評)迷你倉庫