Latest Socrates Stories

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the episode of NOVA that aired October 24 of this year, host David Pogue posed the question, “How Smart Can We Get?” At one point in the episode, he met with Chester Santos, who was the 2008 US Memory Champion, to pick his brain on how he manages to learn long strings of numbers and words. Santos taught him a technique that involved visualization of objects that were in Pogue’s own house and associating them with the string...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RegScan and the Independent Petroleum Association of America are proud to announce that their award-winning IPAA Environmental Compliance System is now a complete Marcellus Shale Region suite. With the launch of the West Virginia and Ohio suites in addition to the Pennsylvania suite, oil and gas operators working in the Marcellus and Utica shale now have a comprehensive regulatory guide for the region's three most active states....

LONDON, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --- Badoo.com Analyses 12m Online Flirtations in 180 Countries- Birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (and Arianna Huffington) Tops "World Flirtation League"Athens is today named the "world's most flirtatious city" by the compilers of the largest ever study of online flirting. New York only just makes the top 100, ranking 89th.The study of "flirtation behaviour" worldwide analyses 12 million flirtations made during a month on...

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Market research company Quester, in partnership with digital development firm Omnigon, has announced a new service called FeedbackFX with Socrates. The companies combined technologies to provide the only known digital highlighting research tool with probing feedback capabilities. FeedbackFX is a highlighter tool available to researchers looking for feedback on digital content including images, video, PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents....

GREEN BAY, Wis., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- For anyone who currently supports the U.S. troops overseas yet questions the legitimacy of the war itself, they may find a parallel to war in Ancient Greece. In his new release, "Alcibiades: Fact, Fiction, Farce" (published by Trafford), author Jack Meyer reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a man who uniquely impacted classical Athens, and uses the Greek experience as an analogue for a critique of today's American foreign policy. The populace of...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite what you may have heard about that hemlock incident, Socrates isn't dead. In fact, he's alive and well and now promoting online compliance solutions for RegScan, Inc. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091104/NE05160 ) In late October, RegScan, Inc. launched its new regulatory-based task management system at NAEM's 17th Annual EHS Management Forum. And what is the name of this system? RegScan Socrates(TM), of course. Socrates...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- RegScan, Inc. announces the launch today of RegScan Socrates(TM) (patent pending), a first of its kind regulatory-driven task management system. Unlike every other task management system, Socrates is a regulatory compliance management system where one can create tasks directly from the regulations. Whether complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, banking, housing, environmental health and safety, tax and any other regulatory area, Socrates will simplify and...

A team of scientists has determined a way to make biomolecular computers think more "˜logically'.Professor Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry, and Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Departments led the first team to create an autonomous programmable DNA computing device in 2001.The first microscopic computing device was able to perform tasks such as checking a list of 0s and 1s to show whether or not there was an even number of 1s.In 2004, a new device was...

Biomolecular computers, made of DNA and other biological molecules, only exist today in a few specialized labs, remote from the regular computer user. Nonetheless, Tom Ran and Shai Kaplan, research students in the lab of Prof. Ehud Shapiro of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry, and Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Departments have found a way to make these microscopic computing devices "˜user friendly,' even while performing complex computations and answering complicated...

AdCEP, which Already Measures the Emotive Power of Advertising Performance, Now Enhanced by Socrates for Interactive Open-End Probing. LOS ANGELES, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- OTX, the global consumer research and consulting firm that specializes in providing a suite of multi-media research products to the marketing, entertainment and advertising communities, today announced the integration of the simulated moderator software Socrates(R) into its innovative AdCEP(TM) product. AdCEP(TM), the...