The fund aims to provide capital to the most promising life science technologies, including those being spun-out from leading UK universities.
These implementations may still be a few years off, but speech recognition in virtual assistants (which includes understanding context, and not just words) is paving the way for these seemingly science fiction technologies to be realized.
Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and cognitive science are all converging technologies.
By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its values, functioning, status and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are improved, widely shared and transferred, and applied.
We are confident that our competitive advantages in materials science and deposition technologies, as well as our know-how in digital imaging, will enable us to capitalize on those opportunities and extend our leadership in key growth markets.
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Now, even as we're investing in technologies that exist today, we're also investing in the science that will produce the technologies of tomorrow.
The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (Semta) has warned car manufacturers faced a skills gap as existing engineers retire.
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Investments in science, innovation and new technologies, including green technologies and resource management must be encouraged to stimulate economic growth as well as to contribute to a sustainable future.
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And because the world is, as a general matter, more complex today than ever before, with arcane technologies and difficult science underlying more of modern business practices, government regulation, and life in general.
Life Technologies, a life science tools company based in Carlsbad, Calif.
The FAST system is the first step in an effort to use Xerox PARC's expertise in physics, engineering and computer science to invent and commercialize new technologies for biology and health care.
"This case is a wonderful example that regenerative technologies are no longer science fiction, " said Dr. Andre Terzic, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, who was not involved in Kaiba's case.
Once machines are capable of visually interacting with the world will unlock a trove of technologies that are now only science fiction.
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It meant that we put much more emphasis on math and science and how we could develop new technologies in our economy and innovation.
When Clinton tapped him as his running mate in July 1992, Gore brought some impressive experience to the table, including service in the House and Senate, serious environmental credentials and expertise in science, space policy and emerging communication technologies.
If you look hard enough you can find the odd science program tucked away on BBC2 but once upon a time Tomorrow's World was on: the technologies may not have always worked but it showed how science was developing and explained it.
It compels the scientists to come out to the people and try to understand them, their needs, their environment, their traditional technologies and skills, understand the science behind such skills based on experience and observation, and then evolve new techniques of production to suit their resources and native genius and meet their needs.
It's not driven so much by science, but by the desire to develop new technologies.
To date, the application of these technologies has been relegated to the realm of science and medicine.
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Wall Street is helping to launch technologies and solutions for the future in health care, science, engineering and more now too.
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Life Technologies, formed by the merger last year of life science tools companies Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, has an estimated 65% of the market for PCR machines used for research and has licensed its technology to 12 other companies making the machines.
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
We invented amazing scientific technologies and medical breakthroughs because we invested in basic research and science.
For from Newton and Darwin to Edison and Einstein, from Alan Turing to Steve Jobs, we have led the world in our commitment to science and cutting-edge research, the discovery of new medicines and technologies.
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The science is already being commercialized and most notably in the area of green energy technologies.
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become one of the most crucial factors governing education, science, culture, welfare and the sustainable development of civilizations based upon mutual respect and the observance of human rights.
This pending move back to planetary science from earth sub-orbit comes on the heels of improvements in pointing systems and instrument technologies that will allow ground-based controllers to fine-tune balloon payloads to include one-meter class optical and infrared telescopes.
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And to be sure, many technologies that were once thought to be impossible are used every day now--inspiring science-fiction writer Arthur C.
This new stage in the evolution of data science holds a lot of promise, but also requires people that could take advantage of the new technologies and techniques for data analysis.
The biotechs should, however, get renewed attention as various important biotech industry groups that attract thousands of healthcare investors and professionals start holding their annual conventions and meetings where biotech and life science companies offer their outlook for the coming new year and present updates on their new products and technologies.
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