A September 2024 Gallup poll revealed that nearly 30% of U.S. adults have little to no confidence in the safety of U.S.
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Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli is routinely asked to predict the future of work.
In April 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic system, a software program used to detect diabetes-related vision loss.
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Audits and inspections are critical components of industrial safety management. These processes help organizations ensure compliance with legal requirements, identify risks, and improve workplace safety and operational efficiencies.
Data are the fuel of the Information Age, and all organizations acknowledge the value of well-managed corporate data assets. The problems start when we begin to ask just exactly how the data assets are to be well managed.
Right now, the U.S. and Germany have different approaches to defining, or realizing, as the researchers call it, the kilogram. Here, NIST researcher Darine Haddad looks on as German researcher Beatrice Rodiek places a sphere on NIST’s highly accurate weighing machine, known as the Kibble balance. The goal of the research is to get closer to the same definition using the different methods. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST
NIST is unique as the national measurement science institute. We are the U.S. agency responsible for maintaining measurement standards, from the second to the kilogram.
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Hospital patients rate their pain on a scale of 1–10. Teachers grade on a curve. Sports fans spend hours debating stats on their favorite teams.
The far-reaching accessibility and innovations of AI-driven maintenance make operations safer, faster, and better. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash
Unplanned equipment downtime costs manufacturers an estimated $50 billion annually, according to a study by Deloitte
ISO 27001 is a globally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving an information security management system (ISMS).
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could outsource to technology the complex, laborious, and often emotionally intense process of negotiating? Until recently, the idea of merging negotiation and AI was only a dream.
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