Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and cognitive science are all converging technologies.
Converging technologies is a generic term for technologies which interact with one another in the development of new products and services.
Every year, the Innovation Centres in Converging Technologies will be expected to publish at least one refereed scientific publication on its research.
Each institution will create an Innovation Centre in Converging Technologies within its walls and develop partnerships between universities, public research institutes and industry.
The UNESCO-proposed Network for Expansion of Converging Technologies in the Arab Region (NECTAR) was launched on 20 June at a regional congress in Cairo.
Its authors, Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman, all at America's Carnegie Mellon University, ran several experiments that show how three converging technologies are undermining privacy.
These will each be responsible for developing a quality programme at their institution for education, research, innovation and the commercialization of new products involving converging technologies and the basic sciences associated with these technologies.
Three core technologies are rapidly converging, unlocking new productivity gains in our energy system that come from modern information technology-enabled networks.
Scheduled for completion in October, Age of Context examines five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, sensors and location-based technologies, which are converging into a superstorm of change.
Converging factors of telework, globalization, new communications technologies, and recurrent cost-cutting have made virtual life the norm inside companies.
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Third, there is the way in which military demand is converging with commercial demand in terms of what new technologies are most valued.
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Because of the wide assortment of technologies that are advancing at exponential rates and converging.
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The technologies needed to run stock and futures exchanges are converging, giving cost advantages to markets that organise both.
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