PONTIFEX (Planning Of Non-specific Transportation by an Intelligent Fleet EXpert) was a mid-1980s project that introduced a novel approach to complex aircraft fleet scheduling, partially funded by the European Commission's Strategic Programme for R&D in Information Technology. Since the mathematical problems stemming from nontrivial fleet scheduling easily become computationally unsolvable, the PONTIFEX idea consisted in a seamless merge of algorithms and heuristic knowledge embedded in rules. The system, based on domain knowledge collected from airliners Alitalia, KLM, Swissair, and TAP Portugal, was first adopted by Swissair and Alitalia in the late 1980s, then also by the Italian railroad national operator, for their cargo division. It is still in use today (2008). (Wikipedia).
What's the difference between concrete and cement? Concrete is the most important construction material on earth and foundation of our modern society. At first glance it seems rudimentary, but there is a tremendous amount of complexity involved in every part of designing and placing conc
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Building A Product From The Ground Up
For most seasoned business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, the product development process often carries a mystical aura. Product development refers to the complete process of taking a product to market. It also covers renewing an existing product and introducing an old product to a new
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How to Work with Wikipedia Sandbox
This is a short video that helps students or editors of Wikipedia to access and edit in the Sandbox of their user account. This was made for the Wiki Edu Project. I do not own or hold copyright over any aspect of the Wikipedia site or its pages. ***There is no audio***
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A weir is a small dam built across a river to control the upstream water level. Weirs have been used for ages to control the flow of water in streams, rivers, and other water bodies. Unlike large dams which create reservoirs, the goal of building a weir across a river isn’t to create stora
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The SOLUS Project - Part 13 - The New Island
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A Selfie with the Pope? How Pope Francis (@pontifex) is Killing it on Twitter | Big Think.
A Selfie with the Pope? How Pope Francis (@pontifex) is Killing it on Twitter Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam - Alex Gendler
Dig into the engineering of the Hoover Dam, a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River that supplies water to the US southwest. -- In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked reliable water sources. The Colorado
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The SOLUS Project - Part 9 - The Horror Within
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Bridge Destruction - Dicing Engine
More dynamic dicing destruction in Blender game engine, now with constraints support which makes more complex structures possible. Any similarity with games such as Bridge Builder, Pontifex or Poly Bridge is purely coincidental. ;) Real-time destruction playlist: https://www.youtube.com/p
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18. Hometown Boy: Honoring an Emperor's Roots in Roman North Africa
Roman Architecture (HSAR 252) Professor Kleiner discusses two Roman cities in North Africa: Timgad and Leptis Magna. Timgad was created as an entirely new colony for Roman army veterans by Trajan in A.D. 100, and designed all at once as an ideal castrum plan. Leptis Magna, conversely, g
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What's That Infrastructure? (Ep. 3 - Hydraulic Structures)
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How Exercise Can Improve Your Memory
SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. New video every other week! Happy New Year! Here is one of the amazing powers of exercise. Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Braincraft Tumblr http://braincr
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Some analogies between number theory and dynamical systems - Christopher Deninger [ICM 1998]
Some analogies between number theory and dynamical systems on foliated spaces Christopher Deninger Universität Münster, Germany: Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, L-Functions of Motives Wed 26-Aug-98 · 9:00-10:00 h Abstract: For the arithmetic study of varieties over nite elds powerful coho
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LLT 180: The Heroic Quest - Lecture 14: Vergil, Aeneid
Human societies have long used the theme of the quest for self-knowledge as a vehicle to assess their own cultures and to explore ethical situations arising in civic life. This course examines texts from diverse cultural traditions in which protagonists confront their inherited identity of
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Clojure - the Reader and Evaluator (4/4)
Part of a series teaching the Clojure language. For other programming topics, visit http://codeschool.org
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Would $100 Million Make You Happy?
Would $100 million dollars make you happy? The psychology of happiness. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! http://ow.ly/rt5IE My Twitter https://twitter.com/nessyhill | Instagram https://instagram.com/nessyhill BrainCraft is created, written and hosted by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and brought to
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The SOLUS Project - Part 27 - FINALE/ENDING
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