Cute! Yeah 4-Life! You knew I was gonna jump in on this topic of competitive technologies from yip's post one way nur nuther.
Felt you had to goad me into action anyway. Z'OK. I'm serious on the 30Kth Post Award you're sponsoring, but I'll be on the job tomorrow during what could be the final lap. May have to stay up 'nuther half hour or so to bring the total up:)
Gotta a couple of pictures to support a couple of my claims on the top competitor out there. A couple of brainiacs at Howard University getting money for continued studies Independent Component Analysis (ICA) by Infra Red Data through a line item on the MDA FY15 budget
Here's from one of their abstracts in a submittal paper of some kind <LINK TO POSTED ABSTRACT> where they state this baloney:) As a prominent higher-order statistical analysis technique, ICA is capable of extracting relevant features from InfraRed data. The latest applications and the extended algorithms of ICA have been elucidated for the purposes of classification and identification of counterfeit electronic parts. The theoretical framework of ICA is presented along with extensive experimental results to illustrate its feature extraction function in counterfeit electronic parts detection."
Then we got the Society of Automotive Engineers listing this in their half-fast engineering STANDARDS while our Polymerais Chase Recognition technology ain't even whispered at.
It made a lot of sense to me to have competing or complimentary technologies in with us back in the January through March timeframe when we expected to be ordained at any moment. Now, I'm a little worn out and kind of leery of everything. The Howard University studies are far from commercial at this stage. Not finding a company out of it yet. May be something to keep an eye on.
We're WAY ahead on that pretty critical point.
We'll just have to see.
Alrighty Brother, appreciate your post. Thanks! Mike Sharkey
