Last month in Chicago, Rideau Recognition Solutions, a world leader in web-based employee recognition programs, launched the U.S. version of their global roundtable series on employee recognition in the workplace.
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Remember Spinvox, the voicemail transcription service which seemed to have cracked seamless machine-based speech recognition?
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There had been a large body of work looking at different ways to control devices through vision-based gesture recognition, the professor said, but not so much had concentrated on movement.
It also stated that cultural authenticity is based on recognition of the components of cultural identity, whatever their geographic origin and however they have mingled, and that every people or group of peoples has both the right and the duty to determine independently its own cultural identity, based on its historical antecedents, its individual values and aspirations, and its sovereign will.
In each case, the policy is based on a recognition that there is no such thing as zero immigration, and that a managed, skills-based immigration policy will not only control inflows but also bring benefits to host countries.
They regularly decry the tendency of poor Filipinos to vote for scoundrels based on name recognition.
This includes their audio fingerprinting technology that can do artist, album and track recognition based on matching up short snippets of songs to its massive database.
Members of the San Francisco hacker collective Noisebridge brought along an autonomous wheeled robot designed to fetch beverages from a fridge or follow humans based on facial recognition.
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The future can be shaped by intelligent actions, but those must be based on clear recognition of the reasons why each side fears the future intentions of the other.
According to FEMA, the Whole Community approach is based on the recognition that it takes all aspects of a community to effectively prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate any disaster.
Section 1502 is based on the recognition that companies from around the world, including in the United States, buy minerals from the DRC and use them to produce high-tech components that go into computers, mobile phones and other devices.
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Whereas the largest players on the web are seeing heavy downloads based on name recognition and a shift in user behavior to more mobile-driven experiences, it appears that those same players have not yet figured out how to mine the field in terms of revenue.
In fact, it is an almost certainty that within the next few years, three biometric options will become standard features in every new phone: a fingerprint scanner built into the screen, facial recognition powered by high-definition cameras, and voice recognition based off a large collection of your vocal samples.
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Where in the past the restaurant tenants were selected by Mall developers based solely on their name recognition and financial statements, now leasing committees choose restaurants based on demographics and concept appeal to their specific community.
The recognition is based on a mix of financial and clinical factors.
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Last year, when Facebook first started rolling out its facial recognition-based photo-tagging feature in Europe, our friends across the Atlantic flipped out.
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Opportunities for telephone-based services using speech recognition do not stop there.
More than a decade after the Newton and 15 years after the DOS-based GRiDPad, handwriting recognition remains slower and less accurate than typing, active digitizers remain expensive, and marketers remain misled about the sketchy demand for pen computers.
NationsBank gives bonuses based on a companywide recognition program, but it balked at a year-2000-specific bonus plan because of the inevitably high turnover in IT, according to Bob Large, executive director of year-2000 projects at NationsBank, in Charlotte, N.
Servers used to stream video, offer cloud-based gaming, carry out facial recognition and other more complicated tasks would be best off using x86-based chips, he added, at least for the next few years.
ABBYY, a Moscow-based linguistic technologies and document recognition company entered the US market in 1999.
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Another recognition feature is based on rhythm and tempo.
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Product sales are based upon product quality, brand recognition and brand loyalty.
While Rome-based ENI may not have the name recognition of its leading competitors, its role in developing Kashagan will certainly change that.
For many years, he has promoted speech input, stylus-based computing and, with Surface, visual recognition.
The multimodal and multilingual speech engine runs on a cloud-based server to provide extremely high-quality recognition with low latency.
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The bill, granting Mexico's 10m Indians more autonomy and recognition for their customs, is based on an agreement that the previous government reached with the Zapatists five years ago, and then reneged on.
There are ways to systematically sort through the fire hose of data based on applying the principals and discipline of pattern recognition.
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When using Smart Photo Selector, V2 users can capture up to 20 shots with a single press of the shutter button, and the camera will then automatically select the five best images to keep based on factors such as exposure, focus and facial recognition.
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It is a trait that has earned the Malaysian recognition on the international stage as director of the Penang-based Third World Network (TWN).
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