Robot Linda to meet the public at London's Natural History Museum Having a robot around the house might be nice, but not if it keeps stepping on the cat and tripping over the coffee table. This month, the public will get the chance to meet a robot at the Natural History Museum in London that may be a bit kinder to furniture and tabbies. The University of Lincoln’s Linda robot, which will mingle with visitors, is designed to learn about its surroundings and make it easier to work human environments. Looking like a pair of eyes in a fishbowl stuck on traffic cone, Linda is a mobile robot developed by the University of Lincoln’s School of Computer Science. Its name is a reference to “Lindum Colonia,” the ancient name for the city of Lincoln.
Raising procurement’s self-esteem First impressions Procurement professionals are indoctrinated into the profession with messages such as “you have to take the internal customer along with you”, “you have to persuade them” and “you have to get their buy-in first”. But what if internal customers are wrong? Support mentality Procurement frequently defines itself as a “support function” whose status is derived by the amount of money it spends and the amount it saves. Quick Start - Messenger Platform 1. Create a Facebook App and Page Create a new Facebook App and Page or use existing ones. Go to the App Dashboard and under Product Settings click "Add Product" and select "Messenger." 2. Setup Webhook
2018 Panorama des innovations sociales numériques Cédric Gossart, Nicolas Jullien, David Massé et Müge Özman Valérie Peugeot, Jean-Samuel Beuscart, Anne-Sylvie Pharabod et Jean-Marc Josset Digital technology for sustainable behavior? First steps of “Transition Techs” companies Sabrina Boulesnane et Laïd Bouzidi Digital Social Innovations dedicated to citizen e-participation: What are the potentialities of CivicTech? Jean-Alexandre Pouleur, Noémie Lago, Chantal Scoubeau et Pascal Simoens Le cas de la plateforme citoyenne « Demain, Mons » Smart participation in urban planning, as the 70’s or such better? The case of the citizen platform « Demain, Mons » Victoria Laurent, Romain Badouard, Clément Mabi, Cécile Méadel et Guillaume Sire Government digital tools dedicated to/in the service of the law: design study of the Digital Republic platform Maud Pélissier The diffusion of digital social innovations in fablabs
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Is the Facebook generation the key to procurement’s future? As the owner of a website, blog, LinkedIn group and a novice Twitter user, I am no stranger to social media, but certainly no expert. It is clear through listening across the blogosphere, however, that social media is coming to procurement – ready or not. As the profession’s old hands increasingly recruit from the “Facebook generation”, these bright young technology-minded individuals are going to have growing influence on the future of our profession and I believe smart organisations will start planning for the upside and downside of this transition of power. As social media begins to integrate into corporate life, procurement can play a key role observing and analysing all sides of the business.
First steps with Kinto HTTP API — Kinto 7.4.0 documentation This tutorial will take you through your first API calls with a real Kinto server, with an emphasis on those APIs used for syncing data between devices and sharing data between users. You probably won’t be making calls to these APIs directly; instead, you’ll use a client library like Kinto.js. In order to get the most out of this tutorial, you may want to have a real Kinto server ready. You can read our installation guide to see how to set up your own Kinto instance if you like. We’ll be using the Mozilla demo server. Important Free Books : Download & Streaming : eBooks and Texts : Internet Archive Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here. United States Patent and Trademark Office documents contributed by Think Computer Foundation. Topic: U.S Patent The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States.
A waste of collaborative buying expertise Why, when government is touting centralisation as the answer to all its spending ills, is it disbanding collaborative buying groups? Firebuy has gone. The UK’s nine Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs) are on the way out. At least one NHS joint buying hub has already been given the chop. And other such bodies, such as the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), are under review.