NET25 Interview with our Professor Dr. Lemuel Braña
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
"Technology For A Global Market"
Cobra Itech Services Corporation got its name from the 2 leading senior consultants and principals of the company, CraigCovey and Lemuel Braña. This represents the joining of forces of American and Filipino consultants. Our key officers are seasoned technical leaders with more than 50 years experience in I.T. from large information technology service providers and from backgrounds in security and intelligence institutions, including the US Air Force, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), executive branch of the US government, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), and Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst.
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"ATX Global provides Outsourcing and Off-shoring (O&O) business to overseas market such as US and Japan to deliver cheaper but quality alternative by providing highly skilled resources and high operational standards
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Vision
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ATX Global Solutions and Consulting Inc.
ATX has seasoned executives having 18+ years of strong and in-depth recruitment and IT consulting experience in various industries such as BPO and IT services, Financial Services and Capital Markets, Transport, Logistics and Manufacturing with strong knowledge and expertise in Open Source, Proprietary and Legacy platforms. ATX has strong ties with academe, industry & government institutions. ATX provides IT Outsourcing and Off-shoring (O&O) services to overseas markets such as US, Japan and Europe in order to deliver cost-competitive and quality alternative by utilizing highly skilled competitive resources with world-class operations standards. ATX global has a strong BPO volume recruitment team backing up its BPO recruitment efforts. It is headed by Consultants who have a combined 10 years of call center operations, recruitment, and training experience. ATX Global's BPO volume recruitment team is currently servicing some of the biggest names in the call center industry today in the Philippines. ATX Global has strategically positioned itself in the industry so as to have an extremely long and wide reach to talent pools that conventional recruitment firms would usually not be able to tap. We at ATX have strategic partnerships which allow us to have a broader field of candidates in which we may select from for specific client needs. ATX Global is revolutionizing recruitment practices by building a recruitment/training hybrid program, which allows ATX Global to not only make the most out of existing talent pools, but to also create talents ourselves by providing free training to candidates. This way we are able to tailor fit candidates for client specific ramps.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Do you believe in reincarnation?
REINCARNATION
Reincarnation is called samsara in the classic Vedic texts of India. The word samsara is Sanskrit and means being bound to the cycle of repeated birth and death through numerous lifetimes. How this works is that those who are materially conditioned transmigrate through different bodies according to one’s desires and past activities (or karma) and familiarities. Their desires, if materially motivated, requires a physical body to enable them to continue to work out their material longings in various conditions of life.
The concept of reincarnation seems to offer one of the most attractive explanations of humanity’s origin and destiny. It is accepted not only by adherents of Eastern religions or New Age spirituality, but also by many who don’t share such esoteric interests and convictions. To know that you lived many lives before this one and that there are many more to come is a very attractive perspective from which to judge the meaning of life. On the one hand, reincarnation is a source of great comfort, especially for those who seek liberation on the exclusive basis of their inner resources. It gives assurance for continuing one’s existence in further lives and thus having a renewed chance to attain liberation. On the other hand, reincarnation is a way of rejecting the monotheistic teaching of the final judgment by a holy God, with the possible result of being eternally condemned to suffer in hell. Another major reason for accepting reincarnation by so many people today is that it seems to explain the differences that exist among people. Some are healthy, others are tormented their whole life by physical handicaps. Some are rich, others at the brink of starvation. Some have success without being religious; others are constant losers, despite their religious dedication. Eastern religions explain these differences as a result of previous lives, good or bad, which bear their fruits in the present one through the action of karma. Therefore reincarnation seems to be a perfect way of punishing or rewarding one’s deeds, without the need of accepting a personal God as Ultimate Reality.
Past-life recall as modern proof for reincarnation
Many people who accept reincarnation in the West today claim that it can be scientifically proven. They usually ground their belief on past-life recall experiences, which represent the ability of certain persons to recall facts of alleged previous lives. This phenomenon occurs under two distinct forms. One is observed under hypnosis, while regressing certain persons beyond the date of birth. The other is produced by some children who spontaneously remember a previous life identity, amazing their neighbors with specific details that match those of the life of a deceased person. Could these experiences really be proofs for reincarnation?
Hypnotic regression as proof for reincarnation
Hypnosis can be defined as a method of inducing an altered state of consciousness, which causes a person to become very receptive to the hypnotist’s suggestions. This method has been used in psychoanalysis for treating psychic diseases by evoking the painful events which caused them in the past (especially during childhood) and then by transmitting suggestions meant to heal them. Although there are some encouraging results in using it as a psychiatric therapy, it is a fact that hypnosis can mix fantasy with real memories or that it can even create entirely fictitious episodes. In deep states of hypnosis, some subjects have had out-of-body experiences and claimed to have traveled in mysterious spiritual realms. Others have had a mystical experience of oneness with the universe.
Hypnotic regression started to be used as a past-life recall method in 1952, when Ruth Simmons from Colorado, USA, was regressed "back in time" beyond the date of her birth. Suddenly she started to talk using a specific Irish accent, claiming that her name was Bridey Murphy and that she lived in Ireland in the year 1890. The few details she produced seemed to describe accurately the Irish society of the late 19th century. It was therefore believed that a scientific proof for reincarnation had been found. As a result, a growing number of hypnotists started to use the method in order to get information about alleged previous lives of their patients. Recently the method has gained a scientific aura, being used as therapy for releasing patients' fears and explaining certain personality tendencies as results of past-life experiences. By simply being asked to go back in time beyond the date of their birth and describe their impressions, some patients tell impressive stories in which some characteristics match those of past and distant cultures of human history. They usually adopt a totally different personality, with a changed voice, behavior and facial expression. All the information they produce is the result of a dialog between the hypnotist and his patient, in which the questions have to be easy and clear in order to get a proper answer. Since the information they produce couldn’t have been normally learned during their lifespan, it is supposed that they really recall past lives. However, this conclusion raises some difficulties, as there are other possibilities to explain how the "novelties" are produced, without accepting the past-life recall hypothesis.
Hypnotic regression started to be used as a past-life recall method in 1952, when Ruth Simmons from Colorado, USA, was regressed "back in time" beyond the date of her birth. Suddenly she started to talk using a specific Irish accent, claiming that her name was Bridey Murphy and that she lived in Ireland in the year 1890. The few details she produced seemed to describe accurately the Irish society of the late 19th century. It was therefore believed that a scientific proof for reincarnation had been found. As a result, a growing number of hypnotists started to use the method in order to get information about alleged previous lives of their patients. Recently the method has gained a scientific aura, being used as therapy for releasing patients' fears and explaining certain personality tendencies as results of past-life experiences. By simply being asked to go back in time beyond the date of their birth and describe their impressions, some patients tell impressive stories in which some characteristics match those of past and distant cultures of human history. They usually adopt a totally different personality, with a changed voice, behavior and facial expression. All the information they produce is the result of a dialog between the hypnotist and his patient, in which the questions have to be easy and clear in order to get a proper answer. Since the information they produce couldn’t have been normally learned during their lifespan, it is supposed that they really recall past lives. However, this conclusion raises some difficulties, as there are other possibilities to explain how the "novelties" are produced, without accepting the past-life recall hypothesis.
Spontaneous past-life recall by children as proof for reincarnation
Another category of experiences credited as proofs for reincarnation are cases of children, almost all under the age of 10, who spontaneously recall events of alleged past lives and insist that they are someone else who lived in the past. The details they mention concerning places, persons and happenings of the past, about which they could not normally know anything, prove to be true when investigations are performed in the indicated area. The extensive research of Dr. Ian Stevenson and his books on this topic are well known. Although the cases of spontaneous past-life recall by children are much fewer than testimonies produced under hypnosis, they seem to be more convincing. The cases of the Indian girls Swarnlata and Shanti Devi are two of the most famous. At the ages of 3 (Swarnlata) and 4 (Shanti Devi) they both started to claim that they had lived previous lives as wives and mothers of two children, in a distant village. The most astounding element is that they mentioned specific facts about their alleged previous lives that have been verified by investigators. Imagine the scene: A married woman with several children dies and after four years a little girl knocks at the door and introduces herself as the deceased mother and wife. Emotional disturbances often develop in such cases. Stevenson comments: "These children become embroiled in divided loyalties. In many cases children have rejected their parents, saying they are not their real parents and have often started down the road toward their so-called real homes. In other cases, they insist on being reunited with their former husbands, wives, or children. One Indian boy was passionately attached to the woman he said had been his former mistress and was trying to get her back, causing himself and her real distress" (Omni Magazine 10(4):76 (1988)).
Now, do you believe or not?
Monday, January 16, 2012
micromouse
Micromouse is an event where small robot mice solve a 16x16 maze. It began in late 1970s, although there is some indication of events in 1950. Events are held worldwide, and are most popular in theUK, U.S., Japan, Singapore, India and South Korea.
The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, map out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal, the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze until it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in the shortest possible time.
Mice can run at up to three meters per second, with current world records around 6~7 seconds, depending on the maze design.
Mice can use various searching algorithms. Two of the more popular ones are A* and Bellman-based flood-fill searches.
A new version of Micromouse called the Half Size Micromouse has been introduced for the first time for 30th All Japan Micromouse Competition 2009. Instead of a 16 x 16 maze the new competition uses a 32 x 32 maze, but the same square area. Cell and wall dimensions have been reduced, providing a new challenge.
Born Micromouse competition and tournament
Micromouse competition, the autonomous robot autonomous (and not just one's own) and explore the maze is a competition to compete for the shortest time to reach the goal.
This competition, IEEE 1977 (Electrical and Electronics Engineers) began to be advocated in Japan, 1980 "All Japan Micromouse Competition" is the oldest robotics competition that is held every year.
All Japan Micromouse Competition is now not only Micromouse competition, robot competitions compete in the speed traces run along the line and compete on speed and competition micro clipper upside down number of cylinders placed in the maze other types have been extensively and has technical problems, robotics event has become a comprehensive Joint Work is also aimed at elementary school as well as competition.
Since 2007 and the opportunity that was held in Tsukuba, act as a trial large-scale autonomous robot Japan's first (outdoor) that make autonomous 1km to "challenge" Tsukuba held simultaneously, from has begun to challenge the highly technical issues.
Micromouse Competition is the heart of competition, others are held in each district as a district conference in Japan, and the micro-mouse competition is open to students sponsored by the Japan Student, the U.S., Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are held overseas. In recent years, technology has achieved significant progress, such as Korea, Singapore and overseas tax has been growing international competition as the championship unfolds usual intense.
This competition, IEEE 1977 (Electrical and Electronics Engineers) began to be advocated in Japan, 1980 "All Japan Micromouse Competition" is the oldest robotics competition that is held every year.
All Japan Micromouse Competition is now not only Micromouse competition, robot competitions compete in the speed traces run along the line and compete on speed and competition micro clipper upside down number of cylinders placed in the maze other types have been extensively and has technical problems, robotics event has become a comprehensive Joint Work is also aimed at elementary school as well as competition.
Since 2007 and the opportunity that was held in Tsukuba, act as a trial large-scale autonomous robot Japan's first (outdoor) that make autonomous 1km to "challenge" Tsukuba held simultaneously, from has begun to challenge the highly technical issues.
Micromouse Competition is the heart of competition, others are held in each district as a district conference in Japan, and the micro-mouse competition is open to students sponsored by the Japan Student, the U.S., Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are held overseas. In recent years, technology has achieved significant progress, such as Korea, Singapore and overseas tax has been growing international competition as the championship unfolds usual intense.
If you have that you can move yourself all the functions necessary for autonomous operation =selfcontained
Able to act autonomously without any external handling such self = autonomouse
Able to act autonomously without any external handling such self = autonomouse
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