Made by cutting and tearing shapes from paper hand painted
by his assistants in a range of bright colours, Matisse began experimenting with this cut - out method in the late 1930s, adopting it wholeheartedly by the late 1940s when ill health prevented him from painting.
The large - scale sculpture, sound, and mixed - media works were installed
by his assistants in four locations on Alcatraz, normally off limits to visitors:
Probably my letter will seem banal and boring, but I ask you not to think, that this next identical letter from the Russian woman I think, that you receive set of letters from women, and probably you correspond with them, it was explained
me by the assistant in the internet cafe.
Not exact matches
Another good sign noted
by Dawn Desjardins,
assistant chief economist at RBC, is an improvement
in labour market conditions
in the U.S.
As with any data - hungry application, voice
assistants are constantly creating new packets of information — highly personal
in some cases — that could be accessed or exploited
by authorities or hackers.
Paul Ferley,
assistant chief economist at RBC, expects positive results for consumer spending
in the quarter overall (up an annualized 2.8 %
in Q2 from a weaker Q1), but noted that retailers are still dealing with modest levels of spending
by households.
Rather than pull over and do an Internet search, I looked at my phone sitting
in its mount and activated Google
Assistant by uttering the magic phrase, «Okay Google...»
Intelligent virtual
assistants have gained a lot of prominence
in the business world since they were reintroduced
by major platforms like Slack, Facebook, and Twitter.
While Fox oversees the program, it's spearheaded
by Ilya Gelfenbeyn, who joined Google after it bought his developer platform, API.AI,
in 2016, as well as Brock Huber, previously on Google's corporate development team, and Sudipta Chatterjee, who has worked on technical aspects of
Assistant.
• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working
in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an
assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied
by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»
The second valuable use of AI, they project, will come from virtual nursing
assistant applications ($ 20 billion
in value)-- which,
in theory, will save money
by letting medical providers remotely assess a patient's symptoms and lessen the number of «unnecessary patient visits.»
In a press release, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer — assistant commissioner Mark Rowley — says: «By being more open about the threat and our work to confront it we hope the public will feel better informed and more confident in coming forwar
In a press release, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer —
assistant commissioner Mark Rowley — says: «
By being more open about the threat and our work to confront it we hope the public will feel better informed and more confident
in coming forwar
in coming forward.
This fundamental realignment of the planets
in the media universe is the topic of a massive new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, authored
by Tow director Emily Bell and University of British Columbia
assistant professor Taylor Owen.
Samsung began to dabble
in the AI space
by introducing its own
assistant software called Bixby.
The Newton was a series of personal digital
assistants introduced
by Apple
in 1993.
He was helped to his feet
by two
assistants and escorted from the stage
in front of the assembled media.
Members of local unions will vote
by mail, at mass membership meetings, and at walk -
in balloting meetings and all results are due back to the CWA
by June 17, according to Bob Master,
assistant to the vice president at the CWA.
Jassy earned positive reviews early on for leading Amazon's music sales efforts, and
in 2002 he was chosen as one of Jeff Bezos's «technical
assistants» — staffers who train for senior executive roles
by shadowing Amazon's CEO for a year or longer.
• It comes with Google
Assistant built
in, which lets you get contextual information from Google searches
by using your voice or text, and can perform tasks like making restaurant reservations.
John McCarrick, the deputy
assistant secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources, said his staff helped pave the way for some of the energy supply agreements
by meeting with private and public officials
in Europe and Asia to promote the strategic value of U.S. energy.
Why It Took Off Fandeavor's first offering was two $ 400 behind - the - scenes immersion «experiences» at the Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament; each package included a «chalk - talk» with an
assistant coach from UNLV, two seats
in a luxury suite and a basketball autographed
by the head coaches of all the teams
in the tourney.
Metropolitan Police detectives are scouring CCTV footage, interviewing witnesses and examining forensic evidence
in the hope of identifying those responsible, according to a statement
by Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley.
In his first I / O appearance since he was named CEO last August, Sundar Pichai opened
by introducing Google
Assistant, a voice - activated virtual assistant akin to Apple's Siri and Amazon
Assistant, a voice - activated virtual
assistant akin to Apple's Siri and Amazon
assistant akin to Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa.
(Evidently, tech companies can't help but make all their
assistants female:
In the demos, Google Assistant speaks by default in a woman's voice, like both Alexa and Siri
In the demos, Google
Assistant speaks
by default
in a woman's voice, like both Alexa and Siri
in a woman's voice, like both Alexa and Siri.)
The answer may lie, as Roose suggests,
in a path to real benefits such as those offered
by the on - demand personal
assistant application Alfred.
In April, Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Heath Tarbert said the United States is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisition
In April,
Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Heath Tarbert said the United States is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments
in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisition
in the United States
by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisitions.
Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post
by President Barack Obama
in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months
in the Senate — led
by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as
assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
Another veteran FBI counterintelligence agent who knew Strzok but requested anonymity to discuss internal DOJ decisions called him an «expert»
in counterintelligence work who «rose to the level of Deputy
Assistant Director
in the usual way:
by being a reliable, consistent, and capable member of the executive team.»
«We don't have a specific list of conditions that would be disqualifying, but certainly uncontrolled medical problems (whether it's hypertension or heart disease or lung disease, or many other conditions), would most likely cause concern and result
in disqualification,» Dr. Tarah Castleberry, an
assistant professor of aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch
in Galveston, told Reuters Health
by email.
A recent study
by two
assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise
in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.
Case
in point, independent research conducted
by the Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute confirms that 51 percent of consumers already utilize voice
assistants, with 81 percent of those users primarily accessing the voice
assistant through a smartphone, citing convenience, multitasking enablement and speed as value - adds from the voice
assistant experience.
Especially
in business - to - business industries, the buyer is usually guarded
by layers and layers of people who I like to call gatekeepers (e.g. receptionists,
assistants, and clerks).
Holland's eager yet awkward Parker delivers big laughs as he navigates the many offerings
in his high - tech suit from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), tries (and fails) to make a meaningful connection with Stark's
assistant Happy (Jon Favreau)
by calling and texting at all hours, and debates a high school crush with his virtual
assistant, Karen.
Orbita Healthcare, a home health solutions firm, has unveiled a new technology called the Voice Experience Designer which it hopes will assist patients adhere to their medications and keep
in touch with care providers
by using Amazon's Echo voice - operated digital
assistant device.
The Ecobee 4 is well - designed, easy - to - use, and powered
by Amazon's Alexa, making it the first thermostat with a digital
assistant built right
in.
On March 1, Greg Nyhus, an
assistant United States attorney, said
in an email to Ms. Rogoway, reviewed
by The Times, that his office was reviewing documents obtained from several subpoenas.
The study, authored
by University of Wisconsin - Madison teaching
assistant James Bonus, found that playing Pokémon Go can be linked to positive outcomes such as friendship formation and walking — which
in many cases «predicted enhanced well - being,» the study said.
USA Today
in late February reported that Shulkin's
assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot,
in a call initiated
by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.
The Titan V could go
in a high - powered PC used
by an AI scientist on a local project, while the Tesla V100 will be good for servers that handle the immense app workloads that power the voice recognition abilities of digital
assistants from Google or Amazon, for example.
Knight, a former Hill staffer who worked on the Bush administration's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, was promoted from her position as special
assistant for tax and retirement policy to deputy director for policy
in February, and was recently praised
by the council's new head, Larry Kudlow.
Meta — which,
in the words of cofounder Sam Molyneux, uses «artificial intelligence to analyze new scientific knowledge as it's published» — partners with academic journals to access many thousands of scientific papers and draw insight from them (beyond the keywords, that is) with the help of a machine learning tool developed
by SRI International, which created Apple's spectral personal
assistant, Siri.
Jim Lucas, the
assistant majority whip
in the Indiana state House of Representatives, has drafted a bill that would require any professional journalist to be licensed
by the state police.
According to Matthew Green, a cryptologist and
assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University
in the United States who examined the app's code after being contacted
by Reuters, the ByLock network generates a private security key for each device, intended to keep users anonymous.
It's one thing to get input from women
by asking wives,
assistants, or even other designers
in the office.
The potential for manipulation will increase dramatically
in the near future with the rise of the digital
assistant, or butler (as referred to
by the authors).
He points to a large manufacturing company that realized a 90 - minute weekly meeting autopiloted
by midlevel managers — and scheduled
by an
assistant — cost more than $ 15 million annually
in wasted time.
Following
in the footsteps of rival Domino's, whose stock soared after it introduced digital ordering, Pizza Hut now allows people to order pies on Facebook and Twitter or
by asking «Alexa,» the Amazon Echo home
assistant.
Introduced
by Apple
in 2011, Siri works with Apple's iOS as a personal
assistant.
Readers may recall a Medium post earlier this year
by venture capitalist Hunter Walk,
in which he described how interacting with Amazon's virtual
assistant device Echo, which responds
in a female voice to sharp commands addressed to the name «Alexa,» was teaching his young daughter bad manners.
The Trump Administration is dedicated to energy dominance, growing the economy and giving the public a say
in how our natural resources are used, and that's exactly what we are doing
by opening up the Request For Information and a new 5 - year plan,» said Acting
Assistant Secretary Kate MacGregor.