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-Jamie Dimom, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co I’ve traveled to Detroit on business for more than 25 years, and the signs of the city’s recovery are becoming apparent. Although the city has a long way to go, you can feel the increasing energy and spirit of cooperation that businesses, government and nonprofits have to increase economic growth and create greater opportunity for all. The city has exited bankruptcy, fixed thousands of streetlights, and improved emergency response times and started to reduce blight. Full credit goes to Mayor Mike Duggan, a Democrat, and Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican. They are trying new ideas and modifying plans as they go along, never pointing fingers or worrying about taking credit. The collaborative approach fosters an environment where individuals and businesses, large and small, have growing confidence to invest and build. JPMorgan Chase is proud of its 80-plus years serving Detroit and, most recently, of the company’s $100 million commitment to help bolster the city’s recovery. Detroit’s collaborative approach to problem-solving is instructive. With less partisanship and more partnership, leaders in Washington can follow the Motor City’s lead to tackle five areas of pressing national concern. Finding creative ways to address them would substantially boost economic growth and create more opportunity for more Americans, particularly in low-income households. First is the need for more—and smarter—investment in America’s roads, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports. Physical infrastructure is a natural job creator in the near term and establishes conditions for long-term growth. The federal government and all of our major cities and states should have five to 20-year intelligent infrastructure plans driven by what we really need—not the political wheeling and dealing that ends up building bridges to nowhere. Detroit’s M1 rail line—a 3.3-mile streetcar line to connect many of the city’s economic, […]

The Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Securities Index have launched China’s first index of carbon efficient companies. Powered by data from Trucost, the new index aims to identify companies with financial performance that matches or exceeds their peers, but with significantly lower carbon emissions. The SSE 180 Carbon Efficient Index is designed to help financial institutions gain enhanced financial performance that lower exposure to carbon emissions provides. China’s economic development strategy increasingly emphasizes the need for green and low-carbon growth. As a result, Chinese companies are expected to further improve their environmental performance. The new index supports this transition by channelling capital towards better performing, carbon efficient companies. To create the carbon efficient index, Trucost assessed the carbon intensity of all companies in the benchmark SEE 180 Index using its Environmental Register database of environmental performance by more than 5,000 stock exchange listed companies and their supply chains worldwide. While the sector weighting in the carbon efficient index is consistent with that of its benchmark index, within each sector preference is given to lower emitters. Some highly carbon-intensive companies were excluded. Liu Zhong, vice general manager of China Securities Index, said: “In today’s China where green growth is the new norm, green indexes such as the SSE 180 carbon efficient index will provide the market with a great tool for green financial innovation, guiding more capital and more resources towards low carbon and green companies and industries, which will in turn accelerate the green growth economy.”

HIS’15 is the 15th International conference that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing techniques. Paper submission due (extended): September 20, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance (extended): September 30, 2015 Final manuscript and registration due: October 10, 2015 Conference: November 16-18, 2015 “Hybrid Intelligent Computing Towards a Greener Future” About the Conference Hybridisation of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Hybrid Intelligent Systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS’15 is the 15th International conference that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing techniques. HIS’15 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research using soft computing, com! Computational intelligence and other intelligent computing techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commerce: [Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Architecture] * Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems * Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques * Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques * Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms * Hybrid computing using neural networks – fuzzy systems – evolutionary algorithms * Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, grasp, etc.) * Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques * Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case based reasoning, etc. * Autonomic computing * Hybridisation with novel […]

The world of manufacturing and production is undergoing unprecedented change with the convergence of information and operations technology, along with the emergence of modern technologies associated with the Internet of Things. The opportunity to learn about the latest integrated control and information portfolio of products, services and solutions that can enable a Connected Enterprise will be the focus of this year’s Automation Fair event from Rockwell Automation. Hosted by Rockwell Automation and members of its PartnerNetwork program on Nov. 18 and 19 in Chicago, the 2015 Automation Fair event will showcase the latest advancements in tools, technologies, services and solutions that can help drive profound changes across the automation investment life cycle. “Helping our customers realize greater productivity and increased global competitiveness through the Connected Enterprise is our passion and a top priority,” said Keith D. Nosbusch, chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation. “The 2015 Automation Fair event will help attendees learn and apply the most contemporary industrial automation and information solutions to machines, plants and production, and fully leverage the power of IT/OT convergence.” At this year’s event, more than 100 exhibitors will fill the west building of Chicago’s McCormick Place along with attendees of user-group meetings, hands-on labs, technical sessions and demonstrations. Attendees can experience Rockwell Automation products and technology at 19 hands-on labs, and participate in any of the 91 technical sessions. During nine industry- and audience-specific forums, customers and industry leaders will share best practices for the following industries and segments: automotive, chemical, food and beverage, global machine and equipment builders (OEMs), life sciences, metals, oil and gas, power and energy, and water wastewater. The week will start with the Process Solutions User Group (PSUG) annual meeting on Monday and Tuesday and the Automation Perspectives global media forum on Tuesday morning. PSUG will bring together more than […]

SINGAPORE –  Rockwell Automation, the largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information solutions, was named the Best Internet of Things (IoT) Provider, the Best Programmable Control Systems Provider, and the Best Machine Safety Systems Provider by Contineo Media, the organiser of the Asian Manufacturing Awards 2015 – recognising excellence in control, instrumentation, and automation products and services across the region, which enable manufacturers in Asia to reach and sustain world-class performance. For the fourth year, the editorial team in the Manufacturing Group at Contineo Media – publisher of Asia Food Journal, Control Engineering Asia, Logistics Insight Asia, Payload Asia, and PharmaAsia, as well as publications focused on television, film and content news – appointed an international panel of 13 judges and a third-party auditor, HLB Atrede, to analyse and rank 70 nominations across 22 categories. Acknowledged as the Best IoT Provider for the second consecutive year, Rockwell Automation demonstrated its leadership in helping companies across all industries to capture the right data from smart plant-floor devices, turn it into working data capital, and share it securely with executive teams around the world – connecting remote devices with people and processes for better decision making, enhanced overall productivity, heightened workforce efficiency, faster time-to-market, lower total operating costs, improved returns of investment and reduced enterprise risks. By integrating the Internet of things (IoT) into the business ecosystem, enterprises are converging operational technologies on the plant floor and the corporation’s IT infrastructure using a secure, standards-based Industrial Ethernet/IP network to become more competitive as Connected Enterprises. “Rockwell Automation has completed its journey to become a Connected Enterprise – deploying the same technologies it supplies to customers around the world, rigorously connecting manufacturing-execution systems to business-critical IT systems to share contextualised information seamlessly. The company is leveraging the proliferation of connected field devices, […]

By Yamini Chinnuswamy Parents are deeply interested in what their children will learn when they enter the school gates and how it will shape their future career, but few would think that the exercises they find on the whiteboard were influenced by the country’s trade policy. The same parents would more likely link trade policy with the price and quality of life essentials such as groceries and medicine. Yet some are starting to question the merits of free trade as they experience slower or more precarious improvements in their lives in a more competitive global economy. Governments too are thinking hard about how best to marshall resources and prepare their workforce to compete with fast emerging economies in rapidly changing markets. These questions make it more important than ever to gain a rigorous understanding of how international trade policy affects the building blocks of the economy, such as education and industry. Researchers from the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Economics (SoE) are making great strides in this quest through research in econometrics, international trade, macro and microeconomics. As a result of their research contributions, SoE emerged as one of Asia’s top schools in Tilburg University’s ‘Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Ranking’ in 2013. Education and trade – a two way street? Education systems are under an ever brighter spotlight as countries wonder how to equip their new generations for a world where knowledge and innovation are the important competitive advantage. Countries with contrasting education systems, such as Japan, Singapore and the US, are looking at each other for clues. Yet clues may also be found by looking at how existing education systems have been shaped by a country’s own trade pattern and intensity. SoE Associate Professor Chang Pao-Li, along with fellow SoE colleague Associate Professor Huang Fali, studies […]

IoT Asia 2016 30-31 March 2016, Singapore EXPO www.internetofthingsasia.com Closing the Gap: From Vision to Reality The Internet of Things is opening up a world of opportunities for everyone from connected cars to connected healthcare to smart cities and even home automation. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2020, about 50 billion things will be connected. In short, the Internet of Things adds an entirely new dimension to transform governments, businesses and societies and advancing humanity in ways we cannot yet imagine. Since 2014, IoT Asia has been a key industry platform for governments, industry and technology leaders to foster closer partnerships and in turn create opportunities for the public and private sectors to embrace the Internet of Things. This tradeshow will highlight key areas critical to the development and the future of Internet of Things in Asia. Smart Cities * Wearables * IoT Data Analytics* Design Applications * Enablers * Industrial IoT What to expect at IoT Asia 2016? • 2,500 attendees • 80 sponsors and exhibitors • More international Country Pavilions • Thematic Zones for a richer attendee experience • Live product demos • New product launches • Focused conference tracks on Design Applications, IoT Data Analytics, Industrial IoT, Smart Cities and Wearables Organised by SIAA and SingEx Exhibitions, the 3rd edition of IoT Asia is an event developed by the industry, for the industry. Online visitor pre-registration and conference registration opens in late 2015. For more information, visit www.internetofthingsasia.com