Seven deadly sins according to Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi: Wealth without Work Pleasure without Conscience Science without Humanity Knowledge without Character Politics without Principle Commerce without Morality Worship without Sacrifice
If I think of any activity I carry on, there is always a (single) primary function why I conduct this activity. Even if I carry on an activity without being fully aware of that primary function – there is, nevertheless, objectively speaking, always a single most fundamental reason for carrying it out. The complexity of…
NOTES Polskie konferencje i Kluby: część ludzi mowi do siebie po imieniu, a czesc mowi per Pani/Pan. Powoduje to scisla segregacje na “naszych” i “obcych”. Podzial klubowy jest silny. International multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology Mragowo 2009, Poland * Day 1 ** 9:00-10:45 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change…
* Day 2 ** 8:30, session 1, stream A *** Juan J. Pardo (speaker), Manuel Nunez, M. Carmen Ruiz A novel formalism to represent collective intelligence in multi-agent systems Input Output mapping system for agent actions. Based on state machines and transitions. *** Robert Trypuz (speaker), Pawel Garbacz, Piotr Kulicki, Marek Lechniak A formal model…
ICCCI 2009 212 submissions 71 accepted 21 accepted to be published in LNAI 25 countries 3 days, 3 concurrent trucks Next year ICCCI2010 will be in September in Taiwan. Speakers: Nguyen Ryszard Kowalczyk, Melbourne Swiatek Zbigniew Huzar Wroclaw has 11 universities * Day 1 – Monday, October 5, 2009 ** Planary session: Roman Slowinski Poznan…
Previous notes for this event: Tuesday, Day 1 Wednesday, 10th of June, 2009 8:40 Rod Drury Talking about Google, Microsoft and Apple mostly. A bit of Xero advertising and demoing. Showcasing how AJAX and other web technologies bridged the user and browser to fully-featured online apps. Thin-client model. Lobbying for government to help providing high…
Tuesday, 9th of June, 2009 Start Around 120 people in the auditorium. 9:00 John Hosking, prof. CS, openning. 9:15 Frank Mount, general intro into innovation in NZ, Alcatel and Telecom. 9:30 Rod Alferness, Chief Scientist, introduction to Bell Labs Bell Labs: Alcatel-Lucent’s Research Organisation 26k patents worldwide Rod was stressing that the research efforts are…
Today’s innovation seminar was one of the best to date. Kept in very down-to earth Kiwi spirit, Jonathan Carr presented a short history of ARANZ (Applied Research Associates New Zealand). ARANZ conducts research and development in the area of 3D scanning and modelling technologies. Having research and engineering background myself, it was really neat to…
On todays Otago Innovation seminar series we have had Peter Fennesy talking about his experiences. Peter shared lots of insights about starting up and running a company.”Kill it fast” – the main mantra. Be fast to deliver, be fast to ship. Protect your IP. Take risk, but know the limits.
I was lucky yesterday to be able to attend two really good seminars: “Setting Up a Tech Business in Dunedin” by Jason Leong from PocketSmith, and “Competitive Advantage or Point of Difference: Getting into the Market” by Colin Brown from TracMap. PocketSmith is an SaaS web application that allows an individual to manage and forecast one’s…