| IBS launches Intelligent Inventory Management System
Intelligent Business Systems (IBS), the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Business Competitiveness Solutions firm, today announced the launch of Shadow, its Intelligent Inventory Management System, providing small and medium enterprises with an efficient and secure way to manage their inventory. It is especially targeted at distributors, dealers, wholesalers, retailers, warehouse owners, traders and small scale manufacturers. Shadow would also work well in shopping malls, large department stores, or even small shops keen to professionalize inventory handling. Shadow from Intelligent Business Systems (IBS) enables a high level of decision automation, which ensures that inventory control is optimised for as positive impact on the bottom line. It also assists in the advance forecasting of sales, thus enabling effective inventory decisions on the basis of the probable lead time in obtaining items, and careful monitoring of dispatches in order to meet delivery deadlines—parameters that would be impossible to track manually with any reasonable degree of success.
Ordnance disposal makes for no ordinary day
4/11/2007 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFNEWS) -- Airmen assigned to the 332nd Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight have a dangerous mission that keeps fellow coalition forces safe. It takes nerves of steel and a steady hand to do the work these Airmen do. After all, getting anywhere near an improvised explosive isn't something most people want to do. .
JACKSON TO LAUNCH WORLD TOUR WITH LUXOR SPECTACULAR
MICHAEL JACKSON is to launch his next world tour with a spectacular show at Las Vegas' Luxor resort. The exclusive news, broken by Vegas insider MICHAEL POLITZ's TheVegasEye.com, comes after months of speculation suggesting the King Of Pop was planning a major Sin City comeback show. WENN has obtained one of the secret invites for Jackson's 10 June (07) Luxor show, where he'll perform a string of new songs and announce details of his Live Forever world tour. Jackson will then meet and greet specially-selected fans and celebrities, who will have received a lucky ticket to attend the private dinner reception and concert. The invitation, which features photographs and images of Jackson performing, calls the event a "memorable evening" and stresses, "This is a semi-formal event so please dress accordingly." The pop superstar has made Las Vegas his home, in between trips to the Middle East and Europe, ever since he vacated his Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, California following his child molestation trial in 2005.
The wisdom of digital crowds: from Lord of the Rings to a bridge ...
Visual effects work draws from real-world research into all sorts of things: image processing, artificial intelligence, physics, and mathematical movement algorithms. But Apple's Ron Brinkmann argues that the process is bidirectional, with tech developed for the visual effects world beginning to make its way into real-world scientific simulations—even in Mecca. Brinkmann knows what he's talking about. As one of the creators of Shake (now owned by Apple) and author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Brinkmann has worked on films ranging from Monkeybone (no, he wasn't happy, either) to Die Hard. In a talk at the ETech conference here in San Diego, Brinkmann focused specifically on crowd simulations and the ways they have been used to solve non-movie problems. Much of the technology for modeling and visualizing crowd movement was developed for films, with Lord of the Rings being the pioneering example of large (and realistic) computer-generated crowds.
Electrifying Change
OAKLAND (ResourceInvestor.com) -- The greatest technological achievement of the last century, according to the National Academy of Engineers, was neither the internet nor the airplane, the artificial heart nor the satellite, the refrigerator nor the assembly line, but that which enabled them all: the electrical grid. There is no small irony in this as contrary to what one may expect, the electrical grid was not meticulously planned and executed but rather cobbled together somewhat haphazardly as utility companies discovered the benefits and efficiencies that could be realized from interconnecting their electrical systems, and over decades it grew into the nationwide network. The electrical grids development then was evolutionary, not revolutionary. Evolution by its very nature is a never-ending series of experiments, some fostering advancement, others impeding it.
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