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  Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia 

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  Radio-frequency identification ( RFID ) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders . An RFID tag is an object ... that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radiowaves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader. Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a (RF) signal and can also be used for other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal. A technology called chipless RFID allows for discrete identification of tags without an integrated circuit, thereby allowing tags to be printed directly onto assets at lower cost than traditional tags. Today, a significant thrust in RFID use is in enterprise supply chain management, improving the effici   [More...] [Less...]

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  Corporate social responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

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  [ edit ] Development and analysis The debate about CSR has been said to have began in the early 20th century, amid growing concerns about large corporations and their power [1] . The ideas of charity and ... stewardship helped to shape the early thinking about CSR in the US. Ida Tarbell ’s 1904 work The History of the Standard Oil Company helped lead to the decision of the decision to break up the company on antitrust grounds. Similarly, Upton Sinclair ’s 1906 book The Jungle led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act by the United States Congress . These can be seen as early attempts to mandate socially responsible corporate behavior. The term CSR itself came in to common use in the early 1970s although it was seldom abbreviated. The term stakeholder , meaning those impacted by an organization's activities, was used to describe corporate owners beyond shareholders from around 1989. [2] Many large companies now issue a corporate social responsibility repo   [More...] [Less...]

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  Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

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  The 800 million-Euro EUREKA Prometheus Project on driverless cars (1987-1995) showed that fast autonomous vehicles, notably those of Ernst Dickmanns and his team, can drive long distances (over 100 miles) ... in traffic, automatically recognizing and tracking other cars through computer vision , passing slower cars in the left lane. But the challenge of safe door-to-door autonomous driving in arbitrary environments will require additional research. The DARPA Grand Challenge was a race for a $2 million prize where cars had to drive themselves over a hundred miles of challenging desert terrain without any communication with humans, using GPS , computers and a sophisticated array of sensors. In 2005, the winning vehicles completed all 132 miles (212 km) of the course in just under seven hours. This was the first in a series of challenges aimed at a congressional mandate stating that by 2015 one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles of the US Armed Forces should be unmanned. [30] For   [More...] [Less...]

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  Representational State Transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

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  [ edit ] Principles REST's proponents argue that the Web enjoyed the scalability and growth that it has had as a direct result of a few key design principles: Application state and functionality are divided ... into resources Every resource is uniquely addressable using a universal syntax for use in hypermedia links All resources share a uniform interface for the transfer of state between client and resource, consisting of A constrained set of well-defined operations A constrained set of content types , optionally supporting code-on-demand A protocol that is: Client/Server Stateless Cacheable Layered REST's client-server separation of concerns simplifies component implementation, reduces the complexity of connector semantics, improves the effectiveness of performance tuning, and increases the scalability of pure server components. Layered system constraints allow intermediaries--proxies, gateways, and firewalls--to be introduced at various points in the communication without changing the i   [More...] [Less...]

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