Artificial Intelligence (AI) is viewed as having potential for significant economic and social impact. However, its history of boom bust cycles can make adopters wary. A cross-sectional, qualitative study was carried out, with a purposive sample AI experts from research, development business functions, to gain deeper understanding the adoption process. Technology Readiness Levels were used benc...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E In April 2000, the Internet bubble burst and the business world was brought back to reality, discovering that business fundamentals hadn’t changed. However, it isn’t so clear whether the fundamental rules of software development have changed. I worked as a software process consultant to two Internet startups during the boom— let’s call them ...

We introduce the Boom Chameleon, a novel input/output device consisting of a flat-panel display mounted on a tracked mechanical boom. The display acts as a physical window into 3D virtual environments, through which a one-to-one mapping between real and virtual space is preserved. The Boom Chameleon is further augmented with a touch-screen and a microphone/speaker combination. We present a 3D a...

The Party in the 1990s merger boom into China, real estate industry “merger and acquisition of road” can be said to full swing With change social policies, “business transformation”, that is, seeking diversified development, has become one important motivations for M&A context increasingly difficult expensive “land acquisition” And Sunac China by virtue amazing speed scale mergers acquisiti...

In recent years, the advancement of electronic technology has been driving a boom in semiconductor industry worldwide. When implementing business activities, those involved strive to pursue balanced development economy, society, environment, and ecology. Our proposed model provides systematic analysis process help conduct comprehensive evaluation determine priorities industry’s pursuit sustaina...

Rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. However, the rural economy in Iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by Iranian rural communities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...

ABSTRACT The European programs for development of supersonic air-flights involve new studies on the human perception of sonic boom. Because this noise includes high-level components at very low-frequency, the usual psycho-acoustic tests with headphones are not relevant; instead, the original sound-field can be reproduced with many loudspeakers in a small room, but the loudspeakers must be contr...