Margaret Starner, senior vice president at Raymond James, was a little less optimistic about the good intentions of a hedge fund.

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Herzing and Starner will start testing the system on wild Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the middle of this year.

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Just down the hall from where Starner works, sits Mr. Java, a coffee machine that knows if you like latte or expresso.

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Starner is at the forefront of wearable computing, developing intelligent, wearable systems that can record and repay information, and has worn his own custom-made wearable computer since 1993.

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"Traditionally they've hired mostly lawyers who have no experience in trading or anything that would help them even discover that (Bernie) Madoff was a crook, " says Margaret Starner, Raymond James senior vice president.

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"Instead of being deaf, dumb, and blind sitting on our desks or in our pockets, our computers might be able to observe what we do all day, understand what is important to us, and act as a virtual assistant who helps us on a second-by-second basis, " said Thad Starner, Associate Professor of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech University.

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