World Technology Award 2011

Last night, Peter Madsen and I had a great time at the UN building at the World Technology Award 2011. As written in my previous blog post Copenhagen Suborbitals were nominated in the category “Space Corporate” together with fellow nominees: Canadian Space Agency, GeoEye, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX.

World Technology Award 2011

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/world-technology-award-2011/

Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies At 56

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs, who built the world’s most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died. He was 56.

Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies at 56

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-06/jobs-who-built-most-valuable-technology-company-dies-at-56.html

Novelties: Technology Blurs The Line Between The Animated And The Real

Several subtle engineering improvements played a major role in making the computer-animated primates in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” look like the real thing.

Novelties: Technology Blurs the Line Between the Animated and the Real

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=61f1997e98bebb8a560a69feddf42f37

Hp Breakup Looming With Cheapest Technology Valuation: Real M&a

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Discontent over Hewlett-Packard Co.’s strategic shift has left it cheaper than any technology company in the world, turning the largest computer maker into a potential takeover target.

HP Breakup Looming With Cheapest Technology Valuation: Real M&A

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-08-23/hp-breakup-looming-with-cheapest-technology-valuation-real-m-a.html

Federal Push For ‘cloud’ Technology Faces Skepticism

The White House’s plan to use “cloud computing” to achieve a leaner government is being met with caution at some of the federal agencies that have to carry it out.

Federal Push for ‘Cloud’ Technology Faces Skepticism

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3c39344431b057b8d898c73b88e9e912

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology For Text Mining: Categories

Modeling the world is a key part of text mining. Modeling is an activity that comes after someone makes a statement like this :  'there are restaurants in the world, let's mine some web data and find out where they all are!" This is because someone else will ask "what is a restaurant?"

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology for Text Mining: Categories

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Pragmatic Philosophical Technology For Text Mining: Categories

Modeling the world is a key part of text mining. Modeling is an activity that comes after someone makes a statement like this :  'there are restaurants in the world, let's mine some web data and find out where they all are!" This is because someone else will ask "what is a restaurant?"

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology for Text Mining: Categories

Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataMining/~3/DXlXtesLlgU/pragmatic-philosophical-technology-for-text-mining-categories.html

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology For Text Mining

In text mining applications, we often work with some form of raw input (web pages, web sites, emails, etc.) and attempt to organize it in terms of the concepts that are mentioned or introduced in the documents.

Pragmatic Philosophical Technology for Text Mining

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Stanford President Adds to Technology Fortune With Atheros Deal

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Stanford University President John Hennessy stands to gain a windfall from Qualcomm Inc.’s $3.2 billion purchase of Atheros Communications Inc., adding to the tens of millions he’s amassed through ties to Silicon Valley.

Stanford President Adds to Technology Fortune With Atheros Deal

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-06/stanford-president-adds-to-technology-fortune-with-atheros-deal.html

Technology Takeovers May Pick Up as IBM, HP Push Into the Cloud

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Technology companies that fueled more than $100 billion in acquisitions last year are likely to spend more in 2011 in a race to harness surging demand for cloud computing and security services.

Technology Takeovers May Pick Up as IBM, HP Push Into the Cloud

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-04/technology-takeovers-may-pick-up-as-ibm-hp-push-into-the-cloud.html

Youku to Invest in Technology, Content, CEO Says

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Youku.com Inc., the largest online video site in China, will invest in content and technology to expand market share, Chief Executive Officer Victor Koo said.

Youku to Invest in Technology, Content, CEO Says

Backlink: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-09/youku-to-invest-in-technology-content-ceo-says.html

Cities made of broken technology

NYC's Agora gallery is showing the marvellous junk-tech sculptures of Italy's Franco Recchia: " he approaches each subject with that sense of innocent amazement, instinctively following a compositive and rigorous logic until each piece is laid in its correct place. What results are wonderfully distinctive pieces rich in detail, marked by crisp, clean lines and colors that work to delineate the overall composition."

Cities made of broken technology

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2OjZRZtsKK8/cities-made-of-broke.html

Pushing the Limits of Game AI Technology [News]

AIIDE ‘07 starts tomorrow (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment), featuring the most cutting edge research in game AI. The proceedings read like a "who's who" in the field, and there's lot to learn from! Here's a collection of highlights from the conference, and references that can be found online.

Pushing the Limits of Game AI Technology [News]

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