Dr. Rachel Yager
ISKE 2008 is the 3th International Conference on Intelligent System & Knowledge Engineering. The conference this year is technically co-sponsored by IEEE, Ghent University and Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, and organized by Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, Fujian Agri. & Fore. University, Jimei University, Sanming University and Hunan Institute of Humanities, Science & Tech.. It will [...]
Rachel Yager | October 24th, 2008 | | Continued
The Top 10 Global Brands as reported by BusinessWeek and Interbrand on September 2008 are:
1 COCA-COLA
2 IBM
3 MICROSOFT
4 GE
5 NOKIA
6 TOYOTA
7 INTEL
8 McDONALD’S
9 DISNEY
10 GOOGLE
BusinessWeek and Interbrand follow an interesting 3-step approach in measuring the “economic value” of a brand, as quoted below:
STEP ONE is calculating how much of a company’s total sales falls under [...]
Many of you know that I am one of the survivors of September 11th, escaping the WTC North Tower when New York City was attacked.
But I never told you the amazing effort of our city’s recovery.
On August 26th 2004, just 2 weeks shy of the annual anniversary, NYPD called me. An officer told me [...]
Here is a big challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantics experts!
In a recent article - State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age - about He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, this funny line appeared:
He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to what everyone [...]
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia.
On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But [...]
Dr. Teuvo Kohonen received the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the theory and applications for neural networks, associative memories and the self-organizing map.
The Award was presented to him at the 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence hosted in Hong Kong. I was at the banquet with Dr. Kohonen [...]
My “Interviews with Great Minds” is a series of video blogs with creative people who have original thoughts and who have impacted the world with their vision of future technologies.
My first guest is Professor Lotfi Zadeh.
Lotfi is the inventor of Fuzzy Logic. With every click of your camera, with every turn of your washing machine [...]
Companies are ramping up social network services in their organizations. Many managers are asking how to increase content contribution from employees and how to measure the success of enterprise social network.
I suggest that they should start thinking about the human motivation and behavior factor.
After the dotcom bubble burst in early 2000, many companies took [...]
Many people asked me if there are any technology museums in NYC. Yes, we’ve wonderful science and technology museums and… we have the Apple Store Fifth Avenue open 24 hours!
See the Google map I created below (click on it to see the details).
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Apple Store at Fifth Avenue (HIGHLY recommended)
It’s not a museum, but [...]
Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and composed of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), WCCI 2008 will be the largest [...]
Rachel Yager | May 1st, 2008 | | Continued
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