Upping the ante

Upping the Ante

Upping the Ante: Agile Product Development at RAY

Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) has recently undergone a major transformation from a steady operator of slot machines to an agile innovator of new games and concepts. As a key part of this transformation, agile methods used in product development teams have been scaled up to the organizational level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). To help analyze the development in the organizatio...

Upping the Ante for “Best of Breed” Machine Translation Providers

The notion of “best of breed” among value-added machine translation technology providers is generally defined as providing access to the single best commercially available machine translation engine for each language pair. This paper describes the efforts of Amikai, Inc. to go beyond that definition of best of breed. Rather than relying on a single engine for each pair, we have written a progra...

Upping the Ante for Political Economy Analysis of the International Financial Institutions

One-upping the LD50.

Proliferative lesions in the livers of mice treated 18 months previously with cisplatin Sir-Cis-diammine-dichloroplatinum II ('cisplatin') is a widely used cytotoxic agent that is known to cause long-term renal insufficiency. Bulger and Dobyan (1984) and Dobyan (1985) have reported hyperplastic lesions in the kidneys of rats treated 6 and 15 months previously with a single intraperitoneal dose ...