43 By R. Colin Johnson paris — Just as IBM’s Deep Blue showed the world a computer can play chess as well as a human master, Eduardo Reck Miranda, a researcher for the Sony Computer Science Laboratory here, aims to demonstrate a computer program able to compose original music. So far, neural networks have succeeded in imitating distinct musical styles, but truly original compositions have remai...

How did you discover your talent for computer programming? It’s still a bit of a miracle that I ended up as a PhD student in cell biology. From a young age, I had a strong interest in technology, excelled in physics in high school, and everything suggested an emphasis in technical study at university. Yet, for a variety of reasons, I choose to study biology at the Free University in Amsterdam. ...

A three-questionnaire DELPHI management issues study of technology management problems identiŽes the top 24 technology management problems of advancedtechnology product companies. These problems are ranked in order of importance. Strategic planning for technology products is found to be the dominant problem. A striking theme of the Žndings is the extent to which several of the twentyfour issues...

The development of reliable, robust and capable service robot platforms is expensive and time consuming. On the other hand, stable hardware is a prerequisite to be able to concentrate on the targeted research area. This paper proposes a strategy to make such high-end service robot platforms available as research platform, by means of the example of CareO-bot ® 3 developed at Fraunhofer IPA. Sev...

a r t i c l e i n f o If localization economies are present, firms within denser industry concentrations should exhibit higher levels of performance than more isolated firms. Nevertheless, research in industrial organization that has fo-cused on the influences on firm survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggest th...

The term high-tech has always denoted a very ambiguous and amorphous concept. An industry or an occupational field that is commonly known as high-tech one year could be using technology or skills that are considered to be standard only a few years later. Low-skilled workers can be found in industries known as high-tech, and most people would not consider these workers to be employed in high-tec...

E20 CMAJ, January 11, 2011, 183(1) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The barefoot running trend has taken off in recent years, but in some environments running year-round without shoes is simply not an option. Barefoot enthusiasts who live in these places — where winters are extremely cold, or the terrain is too rough, or the sun gets hot enough in summer to turn sidewalks in...

The fifth merger wave in the USA and the parallel fourth merger wave in the UK that occurred in the 1990s was characterised by a large number of acquisitions of firms operating in high technology areas such as the telecommunications, computers, the Internet, biotechnology, communications etc. These mergers accompanied and, in fact, were triggered by stunningly high market valuations of high tec...

The phenomenon and model of industrial clusters marketing is a cross-linking subject on the industry cluster theory and regional marketing. It can answer if the high-tech industry clusters marketing belong to a traditional industrial clusters phenomenon? This paper focuses on discussion about whether there is a cluster marketing model. First the concept of clusters marketing model was defined, ...