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Data and Information with Einstein’s Speed


Can we use Einstein’s special theory of relativity – the speed of light is the same in all reference frames, irrespective of their relative motion — to describe the “speed of data” in a flat world of global internet economy?
It’s 130th Anniversary of Albert Einstein’s Birth!
For all his fame and glory, the man was true [...]

March 26th, 2009 | | Continued

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Vocabulary of Changing Times: Trophy vs. Value Apartment


In the center of our economic crisis, the marketing concepts used in realty advertisements are adjusting to the mood of our real-estate market. In the article published in New York Times:
Adjectives Get Evicted
By TERI KARUSH ROGERS
Published: March 1, 2009
The new broker advertising vocabulary does not include “luxury,” “prestige” or, heaven forbid, “trophy.” Brand names that [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | | Continued

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IADIS International Conference (Algarve, Portugal)


IADIS International Conference 2009
Algarve, Portugal.
25 – 27 February 2009
IADIS – International Association for Development of the Information Society is a non-profit association.
See http://www.iadis.org/
A new paradigm is sweeping the society, organisations and the business environment. In fact, society and business world alike are moving from its tangible bases to intangible ones based on knowledge and [...]

February 1st, 2009 | | Continued

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Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009)


International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2009)
June 24 – 27, 2009, Fontainebleau, France
Conference Objective:
Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction. These social network systems are usually characterized by the complex network structures and rich accompanying contextual information. Recent trends also [...]

January 19th, 2009 | | Continued

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Web Intelligence (WI) Conference: September 15-18, 2009


Web Intelligence (WI) is a new research paradigm aimed at exploring the fundamental interactions between AI-engineering and Advanced Information Technology (AIT) on the next generation of Web systems, services, and etc. Here AI-engineering is a general term that refers to a new area, slightly beyond traditional AI: brain informatics, human level AI, intelligent agents, social [...]

January 5th, 2009 | | Continued

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IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009)


The 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009) will be jointly held with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence at the University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, and it will be sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.
For [...]

January 5th, 2009 | | Continued

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The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web


My interview by JupiterMedia back in May is below. The original article can be found at http://www.semanticweb.com/article.php/3749916.
The ‘Digital Human’ and the Semantic Web
May 29, 2008
By Jennifer Zaino
No doubt about it, the technology behind the semantic web is truly disruptive. The challenge for companies will be to figure out how to provide applications based on it [...]

December 9th, 2008 | | Continued

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2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering


2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr 2009)
March 30–April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN, http://www.ieee-ssci.org/
The CIFEr Conference is the major collaboration between the professional engineering and financial communities, and is one of the leading forums for new technologies and applications in the intersection of computational intelligence and financial engineering. Intelligent computational systems have [...]

November 20th, 2008 | | Continued

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International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2008)


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 [...]

October 24th, 2008 | | Continued

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Top 10 Global Brands: Economic Value of a Name


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 [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | | Continued