The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going through a period great expectations, introducing certain level anxiety in research, business and also policy. This further energised by an AI race narrative that makes people believe they might be missing out. Whether real or not, belief this may detrimental as some stake-holders will feel obliged to cut corners on safety precautions, ignore so...

Japan's research and development of computers began in the 1940's. However, Japanese production of commercial computers started a decade after the U.S. production did. Since then the computer industry has developed into the most rapidly growing industry in Japan. Thirty-nine thousand computers were installed as of the end of 1976. This is second in the world after the United States. It is diffi...

Outsourcing has become not only one of the most widely discussed business phenomena, but also one of the most poorly understood. Although it is the most rapidly growing business sector in India and is fast becoming India's fastest growing export industry, there has been little coherent explanation in the academic press for why the industry is growing now; the industry began to surge without any...

Semantic Web technology is being increasingly applied in a large spectrum of applications in which domain knowledge is conceptualized and formalized (e.g., by means of an ontology) in order to support diversified knowledge processing (e.g., reasoning) by machine. Moreover, through the subtle joining of (cognitive) human reasoning and (logical) machine reasoning, it is possible for humans and ma...

During the coming years, digital data storage technologies will continue an aggressive growth to satisfy the user's need for higher storage capacities, higher data transfer rates and long-term archival media properties. Digital optical tape is a promising technology to satisfy these user's needs. As any emerging data storage technology, the industry faces many technological and standardization ...