Last month, Quebec’s Trois-Rivières Library District installed an RFID-based system at its three libraries, in order to automate the return of books. The technology helps to eliminate the period of ...

one-meter resolution commercial satellite, IKONOS, is transmitted to a ground station where it is automatically processed, catalogued and stored in the ILS digital archive as earth imagery that can be ...

Smart and intelligent are two terms widely used in the world of technology. They both imply the use of software and/or computer chips, but "smart" has caught on as a prefix for every type of automated ...

We hear a lot about intelligent enterprises, smart operations, smart manufacturing, and so on. But what do the terms “intelligent” and “smart” really mean in these contexts? Is there any difference ...

For decades, technological innovation has been revolutionizing businesses, offering them innumerable long-term benefits and growth. Now, these technologies are set to transform structures that form ...

Part IV of a four-part series. Machines used to be dumb. They didn’t make decisions, nor could they learn anything new. That is changing rapidly. With the integration of software and sensors, a ...

It is the top leadership’s vision for a new Chinese economy in the age of AI. China aims to mass-produce neural-network processing chips, robots will make accomplishing daily tasks easier for disabled ...