Computing Technology and Artificial Intelligence have come a long way in the processing of sustainable changes across business verticals as well as personal stanzas. A recent culmination of that is an Artificially Intelligent Robotic staff appearing in the horizon for administering and supervising concerned human operators of business operations of any organization, private or governmental. This unparalleled invention has been patented at the Patent Office, USA.

This computerized AI system acts in real-time as another resourceful head of a team that will not only be communicatively interactive but will also hold a significant role as a supervisor and administrator within the team. This will be the first instance of practical implementation of an AI system within the business vertical that is based out of human knowledge and progress that is being termed as ‘Machine Rules Man’ technology in the sustainable evolution of computing standards. The innovation is more than just a robotic helping hand of man but will undertake responsibilities and enrichment of business prospects through real-time interaction with human operators at various levels including administering concerned human staff without the technical ossification of customary AI functionalities like job automation or crunching big datasets.

The various functional areas of the business will find workflow efficiency, improvement in utilization of manpower and time resources. That will have considerable financial impact with less manual labor and minimized time ratios distributed across various jobs within the organization, with the AI system taking over substantial and significant responsibilities that add to the collective asset of the company or business.

The concept of robotic member of staff has been developed by Asim Datta and is based on the Servomechanism Principle” of Control Engineering, one of the most important theories for automation of mechanical instruments. The principle hypothetically generates feedback from the system based out of various informational error signals, a derivation of the current state within the target cycle which again acts as the initiator of the next signal to trigger movement of the system in an indefinite loop until the target is fulfilled. In the spectrum of a business framework, the generation of feedback is aimed at various business operational goals from within its own dataset, embedded with intelligence about organization’s operational policy and rules.

Thus various human operators in a session will now have another resource with integrated business insight, time competencies, and authoritative power to command and control. This paves the way for a new technologically enriched global value and ethics that will add to the sustainability of the entire consumer and business scope. With such invention and innovation gradually becoming integral parts of our lives, one can only look forward to more reforms in terms of system changes and their positive impact on life and society.

Maxeler Technologies recently licensed novel, “explainable” AI-driven prescription prediction technologies from Georgetown University.  Using the patent-pending, technology developed at Georgetown’s Information Retrieval Laboratory under Professor Ophir Frieder, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care. Frieder, the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Professor in Computer Science and Information Processing, is the lead inventor of the technology.

High dimensional information and temporal event relationships complicate the development of predictive models. Traditional approaches transform and “flatten” electronic health records into vector representations that ignore medical event temporal relationships, reducing prediction accuracy. The explainable approach automatically restructures each patient’s electronic medical record into a graph and utilizes a graph-kernel approach to formulate prescription predictions.   As graphs are easily understood both by doctors and patients, the developed system will provide comprehensible explanations of why a particular medication is prescribed.  The products are expected to address domestic and international markets.

Maxeler intends to propose using medical records from a national health service to start adapting the research models to real-world data. “Our goal is to develop a model to process electronic medical records relying on proven, scalable, data-mining techniques, yielding a nearly real-time, personalized, clinically explainable drug prediction approach,” says Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler Technologies.  Antibiotic prescriptions will be the initial focus. This is because real-time personalized prescriptions are needed as resistance to antibiotics is personalized and develops over time.  As Frieder explains, “This partnership with Maxeler provides us with the opportunity to move our research from the abstract to clinical practice, hopefully globally improving patient care.”

TOKYO - Yokohama Marine Mining researchers have potentially found hundreds of years’ worth of rare-earth materials underneath Japanese waters.

Yokohama Marine Mining’s research division say it could be a massive find, one which could possibly be enough to supply to the world on a semi-infinite basis according to scientific reports.

Rare-earth metals are crucial in the making of high-tech products such as electric vehicles and batteries, and most of the world has relied on China for almost all of its needs.

Yokohama Marine Mining’s Chief Operations Officer commented on the discovery saying “Our area of interest sits roughly in a 965 square mile radius in the Pacific Ocean seabed near Minamitorishima Island, which is situated around 1,100 miles from Tokyo.” 

“The seabed contains more than 16 million tons of rare-earth oxides, according to the study. This potential discovery could have the potential to supply these metals on a semi-infinite basis to the world and the deposits could pit Japan against China to potentially become the world’s largest producer of the materials”, added Yokohama Marine Mining’s Chief Operations Officer.

About Us - Yokohama Marine Mining

At Yokohama Marine Mining, we have a commitment to discover, develop and produce from rare earth mineral from locations throughout the Pacific Ocean.

Japan consumes more than 30,000 tons of rare earth metals every year. The Agency for Natural Resources & Energy in Japan have placed a significant emphasis on developing production of rare earth metals in the country. They have offered numerous development grants and exploration concessions.

We focus our exploration locations in the Pacific Ocean within 500km of the coast of the islands of Japan. Having undertaken exploration of over 100, we estimate that more than 100 billion tons of rare earth minerals are available in the sediment on the ocean floor.

WorkForce Software is Available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, Accelerating Customers’ Time-to-Value and Improving Operational Efficiencies

LIVONIA, Mich. (January 23, 2020) – WorkForce Software^®, a leading global provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions, today announced the migration of its WorkForce Suite platform to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), WorkForce Software has been named an Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud preferred workforce management partner for customers with advanced labor scheduling needs in complex industries like manufacturing, public sector, and retail. Available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, WorkForce Software’s future-ready time and labor offerings can easily be integrated with Oracle HCM Cloud via modern APIs, further extending the value to Oracle Cloud customers. 

Powered by Oracle Cloud, WorkForce Software customers can anticipate performance improvements of 30% or more compared to using traditional colocation facilities. Additional benefits include lower total cost of ownership compared to other cloud platforms, increased operational efficiencies, on-demand scalability, and easy expansion into additional geographic regions.

The Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and service providers offering unique business solutions, including those that extend Oracle Cloud Applications. Oracle Cloud is a Generation 2 enterprise cloud that delivers massive, non-variable performance and next generation security across a comprehensive portfolio of services including SaaS, application development, application hosting, and business analytics. Customers get access to leading compute, storage, data management, integration, security, HPC, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain services to augment and modernize their critical workloads. Oracle Cloud runs Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry's first and only self-driving database.

“We’re excited to deepen our relationship with Oracle. Delivering the WorkForce Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure empowers our customers to solve their unique workforce management challenges with improved efficiency, speed, and lower total cost,” said Mike Morini, CEO of WorkForce Software. “The result is a better employee experience, combined with reduced labor costs for maximum business results. Participating in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace further empowers customers to easily reap the benefits of leveraging the WorkForce Suite in conjunction with Oracle HCM Cloud.” 

“WorkForce Suite powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure represents a strategic collaboration that enables both companies to capitalize on the natural synergies of their best-in-class solutions in enterprise cloud applications,” said Dave Profozich senior vice president, Oracle ISV Ecosystem, Oracle. “The WorkForce relationship represents the type of investment that Oracle is making in the ISV ecosystem surrounding our platform to bring greater functionality to the enterprise and help facilitate partner growth. With the labor cost savings and process efficiencies that are available, we advise Oracle HCM Cloud customers who require an advanced labor scheduling solution for industries like manufacturing, public sector, and retail to talk with WorkForce to address their workforce management needs.”

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WorkForce Software is a leading global provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions. The company’s WorkForce Suite adapts to each organization’s needs, delivering a breakthrough employee experience – no matter how unique your pay rules, labor regulations, schedules, and employee self-service needs are. Enterprise grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software removes the noise from a managers' busy day, protects your organization from compliance risks, provides leadership with strategic business insights, and delivers real employee engagement at the time and place work happens. Whether your employees are global, unionized, full-time, part-time, mobile, or seasonal, WorkForce Software makes managing your global workforce easy, less costly, and more rewarding for everyone. For more information, visit workforcesoftware.com.

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Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program designed to enable partners to accelerate the transition to cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; and License & Hardware for partners that do business Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service.  To learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork.

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The auction will be held online and in the gallery at 59 Webster Street, New Hamburg, Canada. Offered will be the single-owner lifetime collections of Don Pero, John Wine and Jim Fleming.

New Hamburg, ON, Canada, January 23, 2020 -- A Canadiana, Pottery & Folk Art auction featuring the collection of the late Don Pero – a quiet but passionate collector of old school primitives, from pottery to furniture to folk art – will be held on Saturday, February 8th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., online and in the gallery at 59 Webster Street in New Hamburg, Ontario.

“Don Pero had an appetite for the items he collected, all of which were authentic and important,” said Ethan Miller of Miller & Miller Auctions. “Everything he collected had flair. For decades he was a patron of one of Canada’s most renowned dealers – Ron O’Hara. Don quietly absorbed some of Canada’s rarest historic objects. Now, these many objects will be sold without reserve.”

Also offered will be the lifetime collections of John Wine and Jim Fleming, pioneer collectors of pottery and folk art, respectively. The 640 curated lots of historic artifacts in the sale include primitive and fine furniture, early pottery, fine art, folk art, historic objects (to include advertising and ephemera, military items and toys) and decorative arts (to include lamps and lighting, bronzes and statues).

Nearly all the lots in the auction carry a strong Canadian theme. An expected top lot is a large wood carving by the inventor and Canadian artist Yosef Drenters (1931-1983). Titled Mother and Child, the figural wood carving is 6 feet tall and has a pre-sale estimate of $12,000-$15,000. It was gifted by Drenters to the current owner in 1973. All prices quoted are in Canadian dollars.

A rare, signed Canadian Wagner Ginger Beer bottle, stamped “Jos Wagner Maker Berlin Ont” just above the lower edge, 8 ½ inches tall, is expected to hammer for $5,000-$7,000. The same estimate has been assigned to a handle-less cup and saucer attributed to The William Eby Pottery (Conestoga, Ontario, 1855-1907), featuring a blue and green slip decoration over a lead glaze.

An iconic Canadian “Fat Man” wool and burlap hooked mat dated 1916, quite possibly Ontario’s most recognizable hooked rug, with strong colors and imposing stature of the “Fat Man”, 40 inches by 29 inches, should bring $4,000-$6,000. Also, A circa 1940 CBC Radio Canada sign, depicting the original logo for CBC Radio Canada from 1940-1958 and designed by Ecole des Beaux Arts student Hortense Binette, 61 inches by 48 inches, has an estimate of $1,500-$2,500.

A lovely Waterloo County painted corner cupboard made in Preston the second half of the 19th century and retaining its red and mustard grained painted finish, 40 inches tall by 81 inches wide, has a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-$6,000. Also, a decorated utility bowl attributed to the Pottery of Adam Biernstihl (Bridgeport, Ontario, 1867-1900), an earthenware bowl with a decoration of a bird pecking at feed in green slip over a buff base, should find a new owner for $1,500-$2,000.

The original artwork category is plentiful and will be led by an oil on canvas painting of a horse by the Canadian photographer and painter J. J. Kenyon (Oxford County, 1862-1937), 23 ½ inches by 17 ½ inches (sight) (est. $4,000-$6,000); and a well-documented, two-sided oil on canvas folk art rendering of a young girl and her spaniel dog with a mother and child (verso), nicely housed in a wood frame and painted by an unidentified Canadian artist sometime in the 1850s, 18 ½ inches by 21 inches (sight) (est. $3,500-$5,000).

An oil on canvas painting by Canadian artist Manly MacDonald (1889-1971), titled Spring Willows by a Mill, signed in the lower left corner and measuring 19 inches by 25 inches (sight) is expected to change hands for $3,500-$5,000; while an oil on canvas by Homer Watson (Canadian, 1855-1936), probably painted around 1910 near Kaufman Flats, Doon and titled Cattle by Stream in Woods, 16 inches by 12 inches (sight) has an estimate of $2,500-$3,500.

Rounding out the fine art category, a mixed media painting (including gouache and conte) on Crescent Illustration Board by Harold Town (Canadian, 1924-1990), signed and dated (“March 21, ‘78”), 15 inches by 15 inches (sight), should fetch $2,500-$3,500; and a Modernist abstract sculpture executed circa 1970 by Walter Yarwood (Canadian, 1917-1996), made from painted cast aluminum and on a wood base, 14 inches tall, signed, has an estimate of $2,000-$3,000.

A late 19th century Swiss cylinder cabinet music box featuring an intricately inlaid case and fitted to a custom 20th century quarter sawn oak base, including original songbook and three cylinders (eight songs per cylinder) should reach $3,000-$4,000. Also, an R. Woodruff Burford U.C. tall case clock, made in Canada in the 1830s, 81 ½ inches tall, with a painted dial, 30-hour wooden movement and original grain painted finish to the pine case, is expected to make $2,000-$2,500.

A T. Ketland Co. flintlock rifle with Indian trade token, stamped “Ketland” with Birmingham markings on the barrel and lock plate, restored, with some minor pieced-in repair to the trigger, the barrel length 36 ¼ inches, has an estimate of $2,000-$3,000; while a figural earthenware chamberstick from the 19th century, probably Canadian, depicting two mice climbing up a candlestick, 11 ½ inches tall, possibly made by an Ontario potter, should rise to $1,500-$2,000.

Internet bidding will be facilitated by the platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Online bidding is already available and will run on up to auction day February 8th. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. Previews will be held live in the gallery on Sunday, Feb. 1, from 9 am to 5 pm; on Friday, Feb. 7, from 5 pm to 8 pm; and on auction day, Feb. 8, at 8 am Eastern.

About Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd:
Miller & Miller Auctions is Canada’s trusted seller of high-value collections and is always accepting quality consignments. The firm specializes in watches and jewelry, art, antiques and high-value collectibles. Its mission is to provide collectors with a trusted place to buy and sell. To consign a single piece, an estate or a collection, you may call them at (519) 573-3710 or (519) 716-5606; or, you can send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. To learn more about Miller & Miller Auctions and the February 8th auction visit www.MillerandMillerAuctions.com.

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