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 [...]
March 26th, 2009 | | ContinuedRecent Articles
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, [...]
March 3rd, 2009 | | Continued
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 [...]
February 1st, 2009 | | Continued
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. [...]
January 19th, 2009 | | Continued
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
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. [...]
January 5th, 2009 | | Continued
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 [...]
December 9th, 2008 | | Continued
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 [...]
November 20th, 2008 | | Continued
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
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 [...]
September 22nd, 2008 | | Continued
