Rep. Julia Carson, D-Indiana, was unable to cast a vote for herself because of a problem with the machine she was using.

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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.

FORBES: Computing Desire

For without a concerted global response to the problem of dirty money, the world's money-laundering machine will be off on yet another devastating cycle.

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He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

"The chicken-and-game problem has not been solved, " he said of the need for both game software and machine hardware.

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"From about 1990, a group in the U.S. came up with the idea of just treating it as a statistical problem -- more of a machine learning problem where you essentially ignore linguistics and just look for patterns in data, " he said.

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Zylstra and a group of seven studied the problem, then resolved to stack those parts 50 feet away in the machine shop area.

FORBES: Too Much of a Good Thing?

The intelligence in the ThingShapes can monitor for relevant business events, compare them to past results, and notify the industrial social network of people and other things about important events such as a quality problem, a machine failure, or a late order.

FORBES: New Sources for Business Surprises

If say, more than 65% of the data went through one machine, and that machine goes down, it may be a big problem.

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