The ultimate vision, Stegmann says, is that yReceipts is not even cluttering up your email or a cloud-based inbox, but integrated into your bank statement.

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Smartphones and mobile apps play a key role in the ultimate vision, but in the grand scheme of things they are a relatively small piece of the puzzle.

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The American section of the show, at the Whitney, organized by Phyllis Lambert with K. Michael Hays, adjunct curator of architecture, deals with Mies's development of modular construction, from the long, low buildings of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago campus, which he designed as head of its architecture department, to his high-rise apartments and offices and his ultimate vision, the resolution of structure and enclosure as monumental, universal space.

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After Robert founded his own winery, his drive, his technological innovations and his proselytizing helped raise the bar for Napa Cabernet and to create the market for premium California wines, his partnership with Baron Phillip de Rothschild in the creation of Opus One being perhaps the ultimate validation of his vision.

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But while passion fuels the rocket, vision directs to the rocket to its ultimate destination.

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The ultimate prize for the researchers is machine vision.

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Regardless of the ultimate success or failure of Scale Computing, the market has been altered permanently by our vision and our presence.

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