French city heading towards Technopolis

The Idio-Technopolis [Editorial]

The rapid rise of social media has brought with it an emphasis on the distinct dimensions of the whole person. Social media recognizes that the individual has a personal network of extensions – a home life, a work life, a social life, a study life, a hobbyist life, and much more – some of these identities even hidden from full view. Each of these online value networks are now accessible by big ...

TASISpec – Heading towards its first experiment

L.-L. Andersson1, D. Rudolph2, D. Ackermann3, Ch.E. Düllmann3, K. Eberhardt4, J. Even4, U. Forsberg2, J. Gellanki2, J. Gerl3, P. Golubev2, R. Hoischen2,3, R.-D. Herzberg1, F.P. Heßberger3, E. Jäger3, J. Khuyagbaatar3, I. Kojouharov3, J.V. Kratz4, J. Krier3, N. Kurz3, E. Merchán3, W. Prokopowicz3, M. Schädel3, H. Schaffner3, B. Schausten3, E. Schimpf3, A. Semchenkov5,6, A. Türler5,7, H.-J. Wolle...

Osteoporosis: Heading Towards the Perfect Storm.

Dark clouds are gathering on the horizon, gale force winds, soon to become hurricane level winds, are battering our shores. It is getting dark.We have no running water, no electricity and floods have blocked our escape route. We are heading towards the perfect storm. This nightmarish scenario is gradually but surely unfolding. We are heading, full speed ahead, in the wrong direction. Of course ...

Towards Semantic City Models

3D city modeling is a very demanding task. It suffers from the same problems as general bottom-up 3D acquisition processes. Whatever the 3D acquisition system, there are always objects and surfaces that yield meager performance. Often the problems are fundamental and cannot be resolved through more sophisticated bottom-up processing. If however, one knows what kind of objects are to be modeled ...

India--diabetes capital of the world: now heading towards hypertension.