Sentences with phrase «key technology advances»

He also strengthened our management practices, oversaw key technology advances for our payroll and HR offerings, and led our successful entry into the health and benefits business.»

Harry Shum will continue to lead our third engineering team, AI + Research, which is instrumental in the key technology advances required across all our product teams.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

«Smart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the information revolution, and Marc (Raibert) and his team at Boston Dynamics are the clear technology leaders in advanced dynamic robots,» SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son said in a statement on Friday.

In 2016, when major platforms like Facebook gave developers the keys to the artificial intelligence kingdom, and advances in AI technology and natural language processing started breaking the user interface mold, analysts predicted that chatbots were going to change the game.

This is an advance that makes the blockchain a «key technological innovation», according to the Bank of England, which has a dedicated team looking into the technology.

By: Donald Makhafola 6th April 2018 Advancing and applying smart technology is improving miners» ability to delineate geological structures more accurately, which is important because a key aspect that affects safety in the sector is the variability of rock mass characteristics over time and space, says consulting engineers and... →

The XRP Ledger, the digital asset's underlying distributed ledger technology, is the key reason why XRP steadily led the pack of digital assets by being the fastest, most cost - effective, scalable digital asset for payments, which helps advance its goal — enabling IoV.

Ensuring quality and safety in its products is key to PPC reaching its goal of being «the best foodservice distributor in the Northeast United States,» but the company also enhances the rest of its operation with advanced technology.

Key to the excellent performance of the new RVE weighers is the introduction of several advanced technology features from Ishida's top - of - the - range RV multihead weighers, including programmable digital filtering and advanced automatic feeder adjustment.

A key feature of this advanced laser technology is that it will not pierce flexible packaging films, and generally does not require a special marking field.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

We combine the most advanced green bean optical sorting with our mechanical grading and sizing systems and conveying solutions to help processors elevate their product quality and maximize yield,» said Marco Azzaretti, Advanced Inspection Systems Product Manager at Key Tecadvanced green bean optical sorting with our mechanical grading and sizing systems and conveying solutions to help processors elevate their product quality and maximize yield,» said Marco Azzaretti, Advanced Inspection Systems Product Manager at Key TecAdvanced Inspection Systems Product Manager at Key Technology.

We use our Global Technology & Innovation Centres to advance scientific research, long term initiatives and innovation in collaboration with key institutes and universities.

Advanced Ishida weighing technology has played a key role in the success and growth of specialist salad producer Bryans Salads, based in Tarleton, Lancashire.

Key to its excellent performance is the incorporation of several advanced technology features from Ishida's top - of - the - range RV multihead weighers, including programmable digital filtering and advanced automatic feeder adjustment.

Educational session panels at OGS will range in topics including farm soil management, environmentally sustainable packaging, advances in agricultural technology, and a discussion with elected state and federal officials on key issues facing agriculture.

Ariel's advanced liquid formulas, with chelant technology, are designed to help prevent hard water mineral damage, a key cause of sagging.

Elsewhere, the Department's Third Offset Strategy — a touted effort initiated under President Obama to maintain and accelerate superiority in advanced technology areas like hypersonics and human - machine collaboration — makes scant appearance in this year's budget request, even though Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, a key architect of the strategy in the prior administration, has so far stayed on at the Pentagon.

With modern - day diseases becoming increasingly resistant to existing drugs, biological scientists and chemists at Leeds are now re-examining these old compounds, applying advances in science and technology to test more precisely whether they could still hold the key to a future drug.

The acquisition of the most advanced financial and risk - management technologies translates into a competitive advantage for those financial institutions which are able to rely on the expertise of highly quantitative personnel in a wide range of key technical positions.

Prompted by advances such as this, the committee did, however, identify a key change that would be possible with current technology: moving to a sequence - based classification system for the regulation of dangerous pathogens.

Knowledge and technology - intensive industries — in which S&T advances are key inputs — are a major part of the global economy, comprising nearly one - third of world gross domestic product (GDP).

These technologies are leading to transformative advances in how we interact with and program biology and are being applied to address key challenges in scalable biosynthesis platforms, cellular therapeutics and targeted molecular therapies.

A key to the advances, which have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, is use of both a «continuous flow» chemical reactor, and microwave heating technology that's conceptually similar to the ovens that are part of almost every modern kitchen.

Unofficially, the OST hopes that, after the key technologies have been identified, Japanese - style collaborations between government and industry — in the same vein as the advanced battery project — will follow.

North Korea has advanced its missile technology, and Iran has developed the capacity for its own nuclear weapons program, making verification a key issue.

«New technology using silver may hold key to electronics advances.»

A form of machine learning called deep learning is one of the key technologies behind recent advances in applications like real - time speech recognition and automated image and video labeling.

1SZU - NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, 2Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 3NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Life Sciences, 4Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore

Several of the key technologies that made Advanced LIGO so much more sensitive have been developed and tested by the German UK GEO collaboration.

One of the key aims is to advance basic science and technologies that will be published in top - rated, peer - reviewed scientific journals, if necessary preceded by priority patent applications.

Orion will use an advanced crew capsule design utilizing state of the art technology and is a key element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and will succeed the Space Shuttle in transporting a new generation of human explorers to and from the International Space Station, the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond.

The rapid advances in genetic editing technologies over the past few years have handed the keys to the castle to the research and development community.

The organoid technology field has advanced enormously as a result of two key discoveries.

Over the last three years, he has produced fundamental advances in mature fields, deriving new layouts for binary trees, discovering a cache layout metric that generalizes Hilbert curves to unstructured grid and designing a new block-wise orthogonal transform that is a key component of his new ZFP compression technology.

Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat and Vice Minister Le Quoc Doanh convened a multi-stakeholder effort to refine key elements of the strategy, which includes developing rice varieties with high export value, adopting advanced crop management techniques, and more intensive use of machines and other technologies in rice farming.

Our research lays the foundations for major advances in key green and medical technologies.

Advanced technology additionally played a key role.

But with modern - day diseases becoming increasingly resistant to those drugs, biological scientists and chemists at Leeds are now re-examining old compounds, applying advances in science and technology to test more precisely whether they could still hold the key to a future medicine.

In his quest to aid his own acne and later anti-aging skin issues, Mr Peter Thomas Roth learned that effective, potent ingredients combined with advanced technologies were the key to improved skincare.

A proper pillow is key to a great night's sleep, and this PrimaLoft pillow — a hypoallergenic alternative to down — features advanced ThermoBalance technology that quickly disperses heat for comfortable, even temperature regulation.

However, no sooner is T'Challa named King than the country's old enemy, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), emerges from the shadows, breaks into a British museum, and steals a rare Wakandan artifact made of Vibranium: the strongest metal on earth and the precious mineral that holds the key to Wakanda's many secrets - from the country's advanced technology to Black Panther's impenetrable armor and the rare herb that provides him with his superhuman abilities.

Mallory and Jason break down the hit Marvel film by discussing its key themes, the advanced technology in Wakanda, and more

An increasing number of regions are trying to create concentrated groups of blended - learning schools alongside education technology companies, which may be key to advancing the blended - learning field and increasing its odds of personalizing learning at scale to allow every child to be successful.

The Master of Education offer three key areas of study: • science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education • language and literacy • advanced knowledge in pedagogies.

The key is to provide candidates the opportunity to think critically on evidence that their decisions about technology integration are advancing student learning.

Key developments in text and tools offer new opportunities, for example, for fashioning technology - mediated learning experiences, for advancing disciplinary understanding and sensemaking, and for formative assessment of students» progress in learning.

Key sectors of the economy identified for building career pathways include STEM fields such as information technology, health care, and advanced manufacturing.

One key item auto makers want to talk about is bringing the consumer into the mix, either through higher fuel taxes or greater tax incentives to pay for advanced technologies such as hybrid powertrains and diesel engines.