Sentences with phrase «powerful technologies in»

John Leck, a science teacher on loan to NASA from Montgomery County, Maryland, says he hopes to inspire students to become scientists so they can develop more powerful technologies in the future.

The danger is that what could be a very powerful technology in promoting access to justice could otherwise develop in a piecemeal, unstructured and non-strategic way.

Not exact matches

MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden helpfully laid out 10 suggestions on «how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex,» in a classic post for the MIT Technology Review.

This approach ensures that when the technology is put in the hands of patients, devices like smartphones become incredibly powerful in educating them on how to make good decisions in terms of taking medication and finding lower - cost alternatives.

Westfield has invested heavily in technology so that they can deliver a more powerful customer experience that leverages a customer's mobile device with embedded technologies such as beacons throughout the mall.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

Though the organization started out working in technology, entertainment and design, its trademark short, powerful talks now cover any range of topics.

This powerful group wants to adopt a technology plan that was first created by PayPal in 2007 and used with Yahoo and Gmail.

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

Thanks to cheap sensors, powerful machine - learning technology, and a kick in the butt from the likes of Google googl and Tesla Motors tsla, driverless vehicles are becoming a sooner - than - you - think reality.

Automated chat technology has quietly become one of the most powerful marketing tools in the industry.

«You are the most diverse class in Northeastern's history — in other words, you are Donald Trump's worst nightmare... I think that everything that we've lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.

Bessant is ranked No. 1 on Institutional Investor magazine's annual Tech 50 list of financial technology leaders recognized for their achievements and innovation, and No. 3 among American Banker's «25 Most Powerful Women in Banking.»

CNBC's Morgan Brennan, reports insurers are using advanced technology to monitor and assess damage left in the wake of hurricanes and powerful tropical storms.

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Once a powerful technology trade publisher, Ziff Davis went through bankruptcy of its own in 2008 and now produces consumer technology websites, including AskMen, Computer Shopper and Geek.com.

But if and when clients consider moving such services in - house with more automated solutions, powerful proprietary technology could prove a useful selling point.

«Ashton Kutcher's authentic, creative appetite for technology and keen consumer insight combined with our innovation engine make this a very natural and powerful partnership,» David Roman, Lenovo's chief marketing officer, said in a statement.

Investment bank Allen & Co. is hosting its 34th annual conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, and many of America's wealthiest and most powerful businesspeople in media, technology, and sports have swarmed the scene.

Moreover, several new social network technologies, including powerful advertising tools, chatbots and in - app purchasing, as well as improved design, will make ecommerce easier, and bigger, than ever.

Silicon Valley, which debuted in 2014, centers around a young startup, Pied Piper, and its quest to build a powerful technology to compress files while navigating the typical challenges of the tech industry.

Thiel is also chairman of the board of security firm Palantir Technologies, which provides intelligence data to the CIA and FBI, and an investor in many other powerful technology firms.

She was co-founder of Innovent Systems in 1998, and has been listed on the National Diversity Council's Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.

Learn more about the role of this powerful reusable rocket technology in the planned Mars mission of the spaceflight firm.

This week, however, it seems as though two of the most influential and powerful entities in the region have taken steps towards validating the technology and its place in regional and international

Uber now has a powerful strategic partner in SoftBank, the Japanese telecom giant that is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in technology.

The Supercharger is substantially more powerful than any charging technology to date, providing up to 120 kilowatts of power to replenish a half charge in about 30 minutes.

Do not take for granted just how powerful technology can be in connecting and strengthening employee relationships.

Profoundly powerful and fast - emerging technologies — from ubiquitous digital connectivity, to smarter big data, to computing systems that can reason and learn — are transforming a business landscape that accounts for almost 20 % of the U.S. economy and steadily growing shares elsewhere in the world.

«This alliance will allow us to put to use some of the most powerful technologies available in the battle against counterfeit goods,» said Sam Shen, a Shanghai - based director at direct - selling company Amway.

Our business is characterized by our focus on delivering the best possible user experience and building the most powerful, robust technology backbone in the industry.

Theresia Gouw, whom Time magazine has dubbed one of the 10 most powerful women in technology, is leaving Accel Partners to team with Jennifer Fonstad, who has advised much of the international investing for Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

In November 2017, CEO Jack Ma said he is «not that big a fan of bitcoin,» but he demonstrated intrigue about blockchain technology, which he described as «very powerful.»

And in May 2015, the Nasdaq stock exchange tapped Bitcoin's powerful transaction technology to create a more secure, efficient system to trade stocks.

MaRS Discovery District aims to improve commercial outcomes from Canada's foundation of science and technology innovation to position Ontario and Canada as powerful and competitive players in the global knowledge economy.

In addition, some entrepreneurs, including Sastry, have been working to pair solid - state technology with cheap silicon - wafer manufacturing, for a blockbuster product that would be extremely powerful and relatively inexpensive.

Or Shane Hipps, who said: «Within the forms of media and technology, regardless of their content, are extremely powerful forces that cause changes in our faith, theology, culture and ultimately the Church.»

Current development can, in fact, be described as the process by which the rich and more powerful reallocate the nation's natural resources in their favor and modern technology is the tool that subserves this process.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Technology, politics, and economics are now becoming integrated in bold ways to provide multiple electronic highways over which these interactive and powerful messages travel.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.

When cyclosporine, the first powerful immunosuppressive drug, was discovered in 1972, transplantation technology was revolutionized.

The technology of modern medicine, oriented to treating gross pathology and trauma by surgery, powerful drugs, and space - age technology, has little to do with either the degree of wellness of individuals or the general level of wellness in society.

Later, as Christians became more powerful in the culture, they had to decide whether to translate the «holy» language of the Church into the vernacular, using the new technology of the printing press.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

The corporate economic entities are most «creative and efficient» and, therefore, most powerful, controlling modern science and technology as well as information and communication in the global market and seeking to knock down all cultural, national or political barriers in order to open high ways for their market plays.

One more factor is very powerful in shielding technology from examination: liberal democratic individualism — the notion that the individual is to be the judge of what is the good life for him or her.

Moreover, secular myths having to do with individual freedom, material success, and perhaps especially the wonders of technology may be an even more powerful source of societal legitimation than, traditional religious arguments by virtue of being grounded in many assumptions that are virtually axiomatic in the culture.

Changes would include a drastic increase in overseas development assistance in the field of communication and under conditions more favourable to recipient parties, the adoption of the UNCTAD Code of Transfer of Technology on the terms proposed by the developing countries, a revision of provisions on the protection of intellectual property in the GATT / TWO multilateral trade accord so as to take the interests of less powerful countries and small producers into account, and the adoption of a multilateral accord on space cooperation and equal benefits.