Revolutionizing Decision Making: How Analytics Will Take Over the Business – Video

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Phil Loves Sophie – "AI, artificial Intelligence" – Video

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South African Aerospace Group Exports Own Satellite

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A South African aerospace group Space Commercial Service Holdings (SCSH) just launched its first self-developed export product at the 65th International Astronautical Congress, the worlds most comprehensive annual space conference held in Toronto, Canada, this past week.

The product called Phoenix-20 HS is a micro-satellite that uses an advanced remote sensing system based on hyperspectral imaging which breaks up images in different spectral bands and enables it to unveil more details of the earths surface. It has many practical uses for instance monitoring the health of agriculture crops for food security, forest canopies to enable early warnings for pest control, soils and vegetation restoration after mining operations, aquatic ecosystems for future water resource, mapping of natural vegetation, shoreline changes, the effect of climate change and the management of natural disasters.

The Phoenix was introduced in a paper delivered at one of the 29 symposia held between 29 September and 3 October where 3000 space professionals gathered for the worlds premier space event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The SCSH group exhibited on the South African Department of Trade and Industries pavilion.

Our biggest breakthrough with this product was firstly to reduce the weight and therefore the cost of the satellite dramatically compared to other satellites doing the same work, and secondly to deliver a usable signal to noise ratio for a compact satellite, says Dr. Sias Mostert, CEO of the Somerset West-based Space Commercial Service Holdings (SCSH) Aerospace Group.

With the launch costs of satellites making a significant contribution to the viability of a mission and by keeping the total weight of the Phoenix-20 HS below 24kg we are now in the position to deliver the total package between US$2,5m and US$4m depending on the requirements of the client. This is a fraction of the cost previously paid for satellites fulfilling the same functions. It is also ideally suited for constellation deployment, which provides the Earth Observation Community with a valuable new tool designed to address both traditional and niche markets not serviced by current satellites, says Dr. Mostert.

The Phoenix is available in two options either with a design lifetime of one year and 500km orbital height above the earths surface or a three to five year lifespan at a height between 500 and 700 kilometers. It typically takes around two years from signing of the contract to the launch of a satellite.

The design and development of the Phoenix was done by Space Advisory Company (SAC) a subsidiary of SCSH. Duncan Stanton was the Project Manager with Martin Jacobs assisting as mission specialist, Hendrik Burger their chief technical officer and Marcello Bartolini as systems engineer.

The SCSH group who recently established their headquarters in the Somerset Links Business Park consists of a number of subsidiary companies, all specializing in different aspects of the high-tech small satellite industry, and brought with it 48 on-site personnel to Somerset West. This is made up of 37 electrical, mechanical and process engineers, and some 9 specialists in the field of IT, Geo-Risk Management, Geo Information Systems, and Social Development. The balance of staff is made up of sales, marketing, management and administrative personnel.

Caption 1 Phoenix Team -Some members of the Phoenix-20 HS design team with an artists impression of the product are Duncan Stanton project manager, Hendrik Burger chief technical officer, and Marcello Bartolini systems engineer.

Caption 2 Phoenix in orbit -An artists impression of the Phoenix-20 HS, a wholly designed South African product.

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President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators

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Washington DC - infoZine - The honorees will receive their medals at a White House ceremony later this year.

"These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives," President Obama said. "Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention."

Awarded annually, the Medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The President receives nominations from a committee of presidential appointees based on their extraordinary knowledge of and contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.

Among this year's 10 recipients of the National Medal of Science, nine received NSF support at some point in their research careers, for a cumulative total of more than $35 million.

Administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation, the National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a presidential award to be given to individuals "deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical or engineering sciences." In 1980 Congress expanded this recognition to include the social and behavioral sciences.

A committee of 12 scientists and engineers is appointed by the president to evaluate the nominees for the award. Since its establishment, the National Medal of Science has been awarded to 487 distinguished scientists and engineers whose careers spanned decades of research and development. The recipients database, with information from 1962 to the present, is searchable by name, affiliation and other criteria.

The names, affiliations, and short biographies of this year's National Medal of Science Laureates follow:

Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco

Bruce Alberts is an internationally-renowned biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to his research in the field of DNA replication, he is an avid proponent of improving science and mathematics education and international scientific cooperation.

Robert Axelrod, University of Michigan

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MESSENGER Principal Investigator Sean Solomon to Receive National Medal of Science

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MESSENGER principal investigator Sean Solomon will receive the nations top scientific honor, the National Medal of Science. Solomon, the director of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, will be awarded the medal at a White House ceremony later this year.These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives, President Obama said in a statement on Friday. Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technologists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.As head of NASAs MESSENGER mission to Mercury, Solomon has led the most comprehensive investigation yet of the closest planet to the Sun. Some of his other projects are household names in space science: the Magellan mission to Venus, the Mars Global Surveyor mission and the GRAIL mission to the Moon, which launched in 2011 and has mapped the Moons gravitational field in unprecedented detail.After nearly seven years traveling through space, the MESSENGER probe entered orbit about Mercury in 2011 and has been continuously mapping the planets interior, surface, and atmosphere. Recent discoveries include ice in Mercurys northern craters and an iron-rich core fractionally far larger than Earths. The probe will continue gathering data about the planet before it crash lands on Mercury at the end of March next year.A geophysicist who has spent much of his career studying Earths neighboring planets as well as Earth itself, Solomon became director of Lamont-Doherty in 2012 after serving for nearly two decades as director of the Carnegie Institutions Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. After finishing his Ph.D. in geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, he stayed on to teach and conduct research there for two decades. In 1978, he published a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that explained how relatively small bodies like the Moon and Mercury evolved without the multiple tectonic plates found on Earth. This one-plate planet idea still holds in understanding the tectonics of the solar systems rocky inner planets.At MIT, Solomon ran one of the earliest ocean-bottom seismometer labs. He investigated Earths mid-ocean ridges by leaving those instruments at the bottom of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans to record earthquakes on the seafloor and measure Earths structure below. As a result, he made important contributions to understanding how Earths multiple plates generate new crust below the sea, where most plates intersect. He moved to Carnegie in 1992. Among other roles, he served as principal investigator for Carnegies part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which seeks to understand the origin of life on earth, and its potential to exist elsewhere.Solomon is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received numerous other awards, among them the Geological Society of Americas G. K. Gilbert Award and American Geophysical Unions Harry H. Hess Medal. When he stepped down as a director at Carnegie in 2011, colleagues arranged to have a previously discovered asteroid named after him. Asteroid 25137 Seansolomon, about a mile and half wide, is currently orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.The National Medal of Science was created in 1959 and is administered for the White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, it recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science and engineering. The President receives nominations from a committee of presidential appointees based on their contributions to chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and physical sciences.Contact:Paulette Campbell+1 240-228-6792 **paulette.campbell@jhuapl.eduMESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. The MESSENGER spacecraft was launched on August 3, 2004, and entered orbit about Mercury on March 18, 2011 (UTC), to begin its primary mission -- a yearlong study of its target planet. MESSENGERs first extended mission began on March 18, 2012, and ended one year later. MESSENGER is now in a second extended mission, which is scheduled to conclude in March 2015. Sean C. Solomon, the Director of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, leads the mission as Principal Investigator. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery-class mission for NASA.

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City gathers housing input for federal grant

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DECATUR Asking members of the Human Service Agency Consortium for input on how the city of Decatur should spend federal dollars to help low-income residents was like opening a floodgate.

Yet the city's consultant, Mary Garrison, associate professor of behavioral science at Millikin University, soldiered on with her questions during the group's monthly luncheon Thursday at Central Christian Church and distributed surveys seeking even more input.

Garrison said community perspectives are needed to set priorities for spending an anticipated $1.5 million annually from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the next five years.

More supportive housing was mentioned by several people at the table Thursday.

Lucy Brownlee of the Coalition for Veterans Concerns said housing for people being released from prison is a need that there's never been any funding to satisfy.

If we're going to be the highest conviction county in the state of Illinois, I think we need to address this, she said.

Kids can't go home, and they're in foster care because the parent can't find housing, said Amy Still of Webster-Cantrell Hall.

Dan O'Loughlin, owner of D&O Contractors, added there is a particular need for one-bedroom supportive housing units.

HSAC President Teri Moore and Emily Dobson, program manager for Soyland Access to Independent Living, said handicapped-accessible housing is another unmet need.

If you've got a family member who can build a ramp, or a church that's willing to do that, sometimes you get lucky, Dobson said. But I was at a home visit today with a guy who hasn't been outside his house in 10 years.

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Nato general calls for 'more bang for the buck' from arms makers

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WASHINGTON: A top Nato general on Thursday said the alliance needed "more bang for the buck" when it comes to defense equipment, and urged arms makers to work on making it easier for countries to use laser-guided missiles and other weapons on a range of platforms.

Danish Army General Knud Bartels, chairman of Nato's defense committee, told U.S. defense writers that industry needed to look beyond pure profits and find ways to help Nato buy weapons more efficiently under the alliance's new "smart defense" initiative, including possible bulk buys across member states.

"I hope the military industries of all allies will maybe ... move slightly beyond the point of just having profits, and also look at what is their long term interest, which is capable forces," Bartels said as he mapped out the rapidly evolving challenges facing the western alliance.

Tough budget pressures in the United States and western Europe limited funds for new weapons, he said.

"The military industry will not see more money coming its way. It will also have to become more efficient," he said. "Speaking as a soldier, I want to see the best possible equipped forces in the alliance, and industry has a role to play, and until now, I fail to see it playing this role."

Bartels said Nato was looking to carry out common acquisitions of munitions and other equipment to benefit from greater economies of scale. Military officials were also seeking to end the excessive "gold plating" of requirements for weapons.

Bartels said Nato needed expanded capabilities in the area of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as in the computer systems that control weapons on the battlefield.

But he said it was also critical to invest in military exercises and training to ensure that weapons could be easily deployed when needed.

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