Webclopedia is a multilingual natural-language processing research project that aims to answer questions based on texts available on the Web or other text collections.
The Webclopedia project is based at the USC Information Sciences Institute, and is part of the DARPA TIDES program.
Wangame Studios is a Chinese video game development company that focuses on artificial intelligence.
烽火英雄傳 (pinyin feng1 huo3 ying1 xiong2 zhuan4, literal meaning: Legends of beacon heroes) is a historical RPG game based on events in the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty. Invasions, political upheaval and social turmoil were setting the stage for a Northern Wei military officer Han Yi to restore his country to peace in this era of bloodshed.
FilmLight Limited is a digital cinema technology company started in 2002 by the Scientific and Technical Academy Award-winning former Computer Film Company R&D team.
Their main products are:
- Northlight film scanner, a motion picture film scanner capable of scanning 16, 35 or 65 mm film formats. It is commonly used for feature film effects and digital intermediate.
- Baselight film color grading system.
- Truelight color management system.
These products aim to solve specific needs of the film post production industry. The Baselight system needs to work with high-bandwidth uncompressed data while providing real-time performance. In color management, solutions for the print and graphic design industries do not necessarily work since working with digitized film requires real-time performance for 24 images per second. This is accomplished through the use of 3D look-up-tables.
Instructional capital is a term used in educational administration after the 1960s, to reflect capital resulting from investment in producing learning materials.
Some have objected to this phrasing, which is an elaboration of referring to training as "human capital," either for the same reason that phrase is objectionable, or on the grounds that it implies that the human in which the knowledge is "invested" is a resource to be exploited.
Instructional capital can be used to guide or limit or restrict action by people (individual capital) or equipment (infrastructural capital) (if the learning materials are computer programs). It cannot generally make either individuals or infrastructure do what they are not trained or designed to do, but it can help prevent them from doing most stupid, destructive and dangerous things.
When people begin to trust instructions, they tend to associate social capital with them, as symbolized by a brand, flag or label. This is usually opens up a possibility for those with power to start cheating and creating bad instructions that can no longer be trusted, but the good reputation of the brand, flag or label protects them from being caught for longer than would be the case without the symbol that is associated with good reputation.