SmartAction Reports 28% Employee Growth in 2014

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SmartAction, the leading provider of artificial intelligence voice self-service systems, today announced a 28 percent increase in staff since the beginning of the year. The additional employees will support the growing demand for its Intelligence Voice Automation (IVA) in customer service.

In 2014, SmartAction hired several team members for senior positions in engineering, sales and finance. Most recently, SmartAction named three new Vice Presidents of Sales: Charles Aeh, Klint Carmickle, and Lee Tucker. Each brings more than 15 years of professional sales management experience from top companies in the call center solutions space, such as NICE Systems, Interactions Corporation, and LiveVox, an affiliate partner of Aspect Software, Inc.

SmartAction also welcomed back Kirill Katsnelson, a Senior Software Engineer who joined the company in its start-up phase, then left to pursue an opportunity at Google, Inc. Impressed with SmartActions persistent growth and direction, Kirill returned to his research and development role, and will be working to build out the voice recognition features and applications of SmartActions artificial intelligence technology.

SmartAction has also recently drawn talent from large, well-known brands such as Deloitte, Empathica (a Mindshare Technologies Company), and Toyota Motors.

Im excited by the growth of the SmartAction team over the past few months, said Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction. These talented new team members bring a wealth of experience to our company and have a passion for artificial intelligence that we feel will drive the next generation of our AI applications, helping SmartAction achieve our ultimate goal of providing the best services to our clients, and to end users.

About SmartAction

SmartAction offers one-of-a-kind Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice self-service for medium to large businesses. We use a cloud-based technology grounded in purpose-driven Artificial Intelligence that utilizes Natural Language speech capabilities as a means to complete self-service calls. Commonly used for providing customer service, our Intelligent Voice Automation technology allows companies to handle complex customer interactions with an intuitive, resourceful, and cognizant AI agent.

Learn more at http://www.smartaction.com or call 888-882-9520.

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Hymec Aerospace expands in Mooresville

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Hymec Aerospace (USA) Ltd. plans to invest $3 million to expand its plant in Mooresvilles Talbert Pointe Business Park and buy new machinery and equipment.

Hymec Aerospace started in 2012 and has been leasing space at 116 Infield Court. The company is buying the entire 20,000-square-foot building to expand its operations.

Hymec employs 10 full-time engineers and skilled assembly workers and will add at least five workers.

The company makes aluminum baggage bars, aerospace hinges and other parts for the U.S. aircraft interiors industry.

Hymec is part of the Hymec Aerospace Manufacturing Group established in the United Kingdom in 1978.

Mooresville has invested hours and energy in forming strategic partnerships and targeting companies with operations in the United Kingdom, Mayor Miles Atkins said in a statement Monday.

With their large motorsports and aerospace background, they mirror seamlessly with our existing (business sectors). We are excited to see our community reap the benefits from these endeavors.

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Can Genetic Engineering Save the Florida Orange?

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Citrus greening, the plague that could wipe out Florida's $9 billion orange industry, begins with the touch of a jumpy brown bug on a sun-kissed leaf.

From there, the bacterial disease incubates in the tree's roots, then moves back up the trunk in full force, causing nutrient flows to seize up. Leaves turn yellow, and the oranges, deprived of sugars from the leaves, remain green, sour, and hard. Many fall before harvest, brown necrotic flesh ringing failed stems.

For the past decade, Florida's oranges have been literally starving.

Since it first appeared in 2005, citrus greening, also known by its Chinese name, huanglongbing, has swept across Florida's groves like a flood. With no hills to block it, the Asian citrus psyllidthe invasive aphid relative that carries the diseasehas infected nearly every orchard in the state.

By one estimate, 80 percent of Florida's citrus trees are infected and declining.

The disease has spread beyond Florida to nearly every orange-growing region in the United States. Despite many generations of breeding by humanity, no citrus plant resists greening; it afflicts lemons, grapefruits, and other citrus species as well. Once a tree is infected, it will die. (See "Can Parasitic Wasps Help Save America's Citrus?")

Yet in a few select Floridian orchards, there are now trees that, thanks to innovative technology, can fight the greening tide. These trees have the potential to keep Florida orange juice on your breakfast tableprovided you are willing to drink the juice of oranges that have been genetically modified to contain genes from spinach. (Read "The Next Green Revolution" in National Geographic magazine.)

The trees are the work of Erik Mirkov, a plant pathologist at Texas A&M University who has spent his career applying the tools of biotechnology to citrus. Over the past few years, his research on genetically modified oranges has gone from an academic sideshow to one of the great hopes of the industry.

It's highly unlikely, researchers and growers agree, that oranges will remain in Florida unless new, modified strains like Mirkov's are widely growna view endorsed by the National Research Council several years ago.

Citrus greening incubates in the tree's roots, making it difficult to detect infection. A healthy citrus root system is shown at left, and an infected one at right.

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A Smartphone Sidewalk Pops Up on a Busy Street in China

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Back in mid-July, a two-way walking lane appeared in Washington, D.C. One side was a dedicated path for smartphone users and the other for people not hunched over their devices.

It wasn't put there by the city, rather it was part of a National Geographic behavioral science show "Mind Over Masses." However, now it would seem one city in China doesn't think it's such a bad idea. Engadget reports that Chongqing has co-opted NatGeo's safety experiment for one part of the city known as "Foreigner Street."

The act of smartphone-obsessed pedestrianism (which I learned just now) is known as "phubbing," a portmanteau of the phrase "phone snubbing." Although a dedicated walking path seems like a needless idea, smartphone-related pedestrian injuries are a real problem. A report last March from the University of Buffalo stated that there are more distracted walking injuries per mile than injuries from distracted driving, including everything from falling down stairs to stepping into oncoming traffic.

Whether this will be a permanent feature of Chongqing's streets is uncertain, but a dedicated smartphone lane wouldn't be the first measure a city's taken to protect people from their own (de)vices. Back in 2008, Britain created a "Safe Text" street by wrapping padding around lampposts to help prevent distracted texting injuries. So a smartphone lane might seem ridiculous, or as a throwaway behavioral experiment as it was intended, but statistics would suggest that in some areasthey just might be needed. [Engadget]

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